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    December 3, 2013
    Data Geek Finalist Announced
    The 2013 Data Geek Challenge finalist are in! Data Geeks from all over the world joined this years challenge to fight the Lord of Dark Data. With over 150 submissions, each category was narrowed down to only 3 finalist. Decision First Technologies is proud to announce that Hillary Bliss has been named one of SAP Lumira's Data Geek Finalist. You can review each submission and cast your vote by…
  • Blog
    December 3, 2013
    Data Geek Finalist Announced
    The 2013 Data Geek Challenge finalist are in! Data Geeks from all over the world joined this years challenge to fight the Lord of Dark Data. With over 150 submissions, each category was narrowed down to only 3 finalist. Decision First Technologies is proud to announce that Hillary Bliss has been named one of SAP Lumira's Data Geek Finalist. You can review each submission and cast your vote by…
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    December 4, 2013
    Why is SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 SP2 so amazing? "Group By Variables"
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    December 9, 2013
    Integrating Secure FTP into Data Services
    SAP Data Services includes decently robust native support for FTP transport, as long as you don't mind it being non-secured. However, understandably, many applications require the use of secured FTP transport methodologies, since the data being transmitted is often of a sensitive nature. You probably don't want to risk your data being intercepted in transit, especially if its going outside of the…
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    December 17, 2013
    Compressing Snapshots in Data Services
    Sometimes, when capturing data in a data warehouse, we need to store time-variant pieces of data about a transaction. This somewhat blurs the lines between a traditional fact table and a dimension, since in the traditional model, time-variance is mainly the domain of a dimension. Take the example of a production backlog at a manufacturer. When an order is made, particularly in an organization…
  • Blog
    December 17, 2013
    Compressing Snapshots in Data Services
    Sometimes, when capturing data in a data warehouse, we need to store time-variant pieces of data about a transaction. This somewhat blurs the lines between a traditional fact table and a dimension, since in the traditional model, time-variance is mainly the domain of a dimension. Take the example of a production backlog at a manufacturer. When an order is made, particularly in an organization…
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    January 21, 2014
    Fun and Useful Features in SAP Information Steward 4.2
    The latest release of SAP Information Steward includes the Data Cleansing Advisor, which has some great new features that help organizations get a jump-start on their Information Steward implementation. Today I'll show an example process for using Data Cleansing Advisor to suggest Information Steward validation rules and create a cleansing solution. Profiling the Data The first step in…
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    February 3, 2014
    Publishing Stories to Lumira Cloud
    The latest release of SAP Lumira and Lumira Cloud included the ability to publish "stories" designed in Lumira (or Predictive Analysis) to Lumira Cloud. Today's blog shows the process of designing visualizations, creating story boards, and uploading them to SAP Lumira Cloud using the data set from the Customer Lifetime Value case study blog. Our story board will describe the customers for…
  • Blog
    February 17, 2014
    Making SAP Information Steward a Key Part of Your Data Governance Strategy - Part 2
    SAP Information Steward Overview and Data Insight Review Part 1 in our series on Data Governance defined the concept of Data Governance and gave suggestions on how to go about implementing an initial program at a corporate level. The definition that we use is: Data Governance is your organization's management strategy to meet the data quality needs of final data users and consumers. It verifies…
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    February 24, 2014
    Modeling with SAP Infinite Insight
    Since SAP's acquisition of KXEN, announced in September 2013, many SAP Predictive Analysis users have been eager to preview the features KXEN Infinite Insight that will eventually be incorporated into SAP Predictive Analysis. In this blog, we'll step through the same analysis of building a Customer Lifetime Value model that was discussed in my previous Customer Lifetime Value case study blog.…
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