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  • Blog
    August 6, 2013
  • Blog
    August 13, 2013
    Recently, Decision First principal consultant Chris Hickman composed a series of videos on BusinessObjects 4.0 SP6. Checkout Chris' quick overview on SAP BusinessOjects Explorer which combines the simplicity and speed on Internet search with the analytical power of business intelligence - for faster, more informed decision-making. In Explorer you can: Give all of your users the autonomy to…
  • Blog
    August 19, 2013
    Take Your BI Mobile with SAP BusinessObjects Solutions SAP® mobile BI solutions deliver real-time visibility into big data with a secure, mobile experience that features interactive visuals and intuitive search. Empower everyone in your organization to take action and deliver results from anywhere with business intelligence solutions delivered to your mobile device. By using…
  • Blog
    September 3, 2013
    What is a transactional delta table? A transactional delta table is a way to look back at the history of your data and determine what changes have been made to a particular transaction over time. It will show when a transaction was initially created, and then how and when that transaction changed after the initial creation. Building one with SAP Data Services is a simple process that I'll…
  • Blog
    September 17, 2013
    On September 10, SAP announced the acquisition of KXEN, a privately-held predictive analytics software vendor (Information Week article on the announcement). KXEN (pronounced as the initals K-X-E-N) is a relatively lesser-known competitor in the predictive analytics space, and has a distinct bent towards user-friendly and line-of-business predictive analysis empowerment. Although I have not used…
  • Blog
    September 30, 2013
    Since September is drawing to a close and October is rapidly approaching, I decided to hunt down some baseball data and see if we can draw any insights on MLB statistics and post-season performance. I'm definitely not an expert in sports statistics, but I pulled the well-known Lahman baseball database and calculated some summary statistics to evaluate team performance. I used SAP Predictive…
  • Blog
    October 8, 2013
    After a 4 month hiatus from the monthly release schedule for SAP Lumira and SAP Predictive Analysis, SAP released version 1.0.12 of Lumira on October 2, 2013. This Lumira update contains mostly look-and-feel changes and very few functionality updates. This release introduces a new logo and icon for SAP Lumira:                       …
  • Blog
    October 11, 2013
  • Blog
    October 14, 2013
    Pitfalls and Opportunities Data Services functions work in pretty much the same way as most programming language functions do. They take input variables, do some work, and then return a value. Functions in Data Services can even return multiple values, which is a necessary feature since it has no array or hashtable structures found in your purer "functions only return one value" languages, like…
  • Blog
    March 4, 2024
    The big picture: Half of the top 10 priorities of CFOs and finance leaders indicate a need for greater agility in finance organizations, according to Protiviti’s 2023 Global Finance Trends Survey. Marketplace uncertainties and economic challenges make the need for agility critical as organizations strive for growth and profitability. Between the lines: CFOs can and should play a more…
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