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    February 3, 2022
    For CFOs, Talent, Culture and Resilience Rate as Immediate and Long-Term Strategic Challenges
    Overview of top risk issues in 2022 While the CFO’s rapidly expanding collection of strategic concerns continues to defy expectations, the Top Risks Survey results for finance leaders reflect a fundamental dynamic of physics. Acceleration is directly proportional to force, according to Newton’s Second Law, which helps explain why the CFO’s role is transforming so swiftly. The past two years…
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    February 7, 2022
    Guest Viewpoint: How to Close the Sizable Technology Gap Among SOX Compliance Functions
    Corporations are turning to technology more frequently to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, but room for improvement remains. A significant number of organizations that fail to emphasize digital solutions continue to miss out on meaningful cost and time savings. I have witnessed this dynamic firsthand as a market advisor with AuditBoard, a cloud-based connected risk platform. It is further…
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    February 8, 2022
    “We’re Late” — Megatrends Expert Andrew Winston on Cities’ Efforts to Combat Climate Change
    Rising temperatures and sea levels are already making it more challenging to live in some cities around the world. And by 2030, megatrends expert Andrew Winston said we’ll have a very strong sense of which cities are firmly on the path to becoming unlivable. Within 40 years, some places along coastlines will indeed be unhabitable. “This all sounds far off, but it’s really not,” said Winston in an…
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    February 10, 2022
    Creating a More Flexible and Resilient Supply Chain Starts With Identifying Key Risk Exposures
    No matter what they make or sell — computers, pet food, cosmetics, textiles — companies around the world are grappling with significant supply chain issues. It’s easy to blame the global health crisis for these problems, especially the labor, material and shipping container shortages. Certainly, the pandemic has played its part in exposing the global supply chain’s brittleness and exacerbating…
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    October 21, 2013
    What the heck is self-service BI?
  • Blog
    October 28, 2013
    Implementing a Customer Lifetime Value Predictive Model: Use Case
    Since predictive algorithms are really just mathematical formulas that can be applied to many different problems, many organizations have a difficult time understanding how they can be applied and implemented within their existing Business Intelligence environment. Fortunately, SAP provides several tools that offer an end-to-end solution for generating and visualizing analysis sets, fitting…
  • Blog
    November 5, 2013
    Making SAP Information Steward a Key Part of Your Data Governance Strategy
    Part 1 - Data Governance Defined Data Governance: You've probably heard the buzz about this topic that is becoming a larger part of many IT conversations. But similar to the vague term "Big Data" these days, just what exactly is data governance? Is it a piece of software that one can simply buy off the shelf? And what are the benefits that one can expect to receive by implementing it? Chances…
  • Blog
    November 7, 2013
    What's new in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SP8?
  • Blog
    November 11, 2013
    Extracting Metadata from ODBC Sources
    Metadata is essential to well documented ETL processes. Ideally, this metadata starts with the source system table and column descriptions and other system specific information. When this information is not available directly inside of Data Services, retrieving it manually can fill in the gaps and help your users get a complete map of how data arrives in the warehouse. Generally, the lack of…
  • Blog
    December 2, 2013
    Bullets on BI Mobile
    No. Not a new gun law. Instead, these bullets give us the ability to visualize a quantitative measure compared to a target and a qualitative range of performance values. A bullet chart was originally designed to replace gauges and dials that can take up too much space on a dashboard view. If you have not used them, I would encourage you to incorporate them as a report visualization element. In BI…
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