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Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Compare SaaS data retention policies from 5 major providers
How long is your SaaS platform keeping your data? Learn how these five popular vendors handle data retention.
Robert Sheldon • March 14, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
The pros and cons of self-service analytics
Self-service analytics lowers skill barriers for data use but does require training and financial investment. Evaluate the pros and cons before deciding if it's the right fit.
Jacob Roundy • March 12, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
7 data sanitization techniques for better data protection
Data sanitization is an essential aspect of data protection. Good data sanitization practices can help ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information.
Paul Kirvan • March 7, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
The ultimate guide to SaaS backup
Software-as-a-service applications are everywhere these days. But do you know where your SaaS backups are?
Stuart Burns • March 4, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
9 best practices for self-service analytics
Expecting business benefits from an analytics platform everyone can use? Take the right steps before putting the tool into users' hands.
Robert Sheldon • March 3, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to manage and mitigate reputational risk
Believe it or not, there are actually several reasons for a business to care about its reputation.
Paul Kirvan • Feb. 21, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
8 steps to improve data visualization literacy
Data visualization literacy is a crucial element of analytics -- it helps you communicate findings. These eight steps can help you improve your DVL.
Robert Sheldon • Feb. 13, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
3 Best Practices to Protect Backups from Ransomware
Backing up data is one way to guard against threats such as ransomware, but attacks designed to infect backups can compromise data protection efforts.
Mitch Lewis • Feb. 10, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
People-centered business continuity is critical in the age of AI
Recent crises such as the CrowdStrike outages and California wildfires show why people-centered business continuity is crucial. Learn how to shift the focus to people here.
Paul Kirvan • Feb. 6, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
6 top business continuity certifications to consider in 2025
Organizations can bolster and validate the expertise of their IT teams with a variety of certifications. There are several options aimed at business continuity professionals.
Sean Kerner • Jan. 22, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Develop data literacy skills to advance your career
Data literacy skills are the foundation of data-driven decision-making. Identify your current skill level and learn what you must improve to better use data in your work.
Donald Farmer • Jan. 15, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Will generative AI replace data analysts?
Generative AI can't replace data analysts. It can help analysts be more effective, but GenAI lacks human insights and knowledge to do the job.
Donald Farmer • Jan. 10, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How LLMs can improve data analysis
Data professionals can use LLMs to enhance predictive analytics, but human oversight is still critical.
John Burke • Jan. 9, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
9 data visualization certifications
Data visualization skills make you a valuable employee in a data-driven world, and adding a certification to your resume showcases your knowledge.
Jacob Roundy • Jan. 6, 2025 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to use rsync and scp for data protection
The rsync and scp tools are available to Linux, macOS and Windows users. These two simple utilities have several use cases for disaster recovery and data protection.
Damon Garn • Dec. 30, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Business continuity vs. emergency management
There is overlap between business continuity and emergency management, but don't confuse the two. They are separate but equally critical disaster recovery practices.
Brien Posey • Dec. 18, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to build and maintain a reliable backup infrastructure
A backup infrastructure is critical to long-term data protection and rapid recoveries. As environments become more complex, maintaining a strong infrastructure can be difficult.
Damon Garn • Dec. 17, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to use Time Machine to back up your Mac
Mac Time Machine backup is a useful tool for small businesses. It does not support cloud targets, but has a user-friendly interface and simple scheduling options for basic backups.
Damon Garn • Dec. 9, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Why data backup is important
Not every organization has a backup infrastructure in place. There are several reasons why that is a mistake, including recovery costs and rising threats to critical data.
Damon Garn • Dec. 4, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to implement a business intelligence project in 7 steps
The BI implementation process involves a series of steps that organizations need to take to ensure projects are completed successfully and meet business goals.
Jeff McCormick • Nov. 15, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How to build an effective business intelligence strategy
Explore the eight steps organizations need to develop and implement a successful business intelligence strategy, as well as some of the challenges staff can encounter.
Mary Pratt • Nov. 15, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Metaplane app adds data observability for Snowflake users
The data observability specialist's new native app for the data cloud enables users to monitor data quality as they develop the analytics and AI tools that inform decisions.
Eric Avidon • Nov. 11, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 top benefits of business intelligence for companies
By using BI tools to analyze data and drive better business decisions, organizations can improve their operations and gain the benefits and advantages outlined here.
Donald Farmer • Nov. 5, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Traditional BI vs. self-service BI: Differences and uses
Traditional and self-service business intelligence are different approaches to BI initiatives. Here's what you need to know to decide which is right for your BI needs.
Chris Tozzi • Nov. 5, 2024 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
When to use a mirrored site disaster recovery
Mirrored disaster recovery sites are a good fit for businesses that require rapid failover and have the right resources to build a duplicate data center.
Brien Posey • Oct. 29, 2024
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