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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…
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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…
  • Blog
    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…
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    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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    February 25, 2014
    Don't Miss the Most Significant Events of the Year! BI 2014 and HANA 2014!!
    Why Should You Attend BI 2014 & HANA 2014? Two Events for the Price of One!BI & HANA 2014 are co-located and take place at the Walt Disney World® Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, March 24-27. Plus, Basis & SAP Infrastructure 2014 will also be co-located with BI & HANA 2014, so it is really...THREE EVENTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!BI 2014 delivers unsurpassed education for professionals…
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    March 4, 2014
    ASUG Data Governance Webcast
    Data Quality Metrics and KPIs: How to Present Them? Rich Hauser In this session, we'll discuss where metrics should be sourced from across Information Steward and Data Services. We'll also address what options you have for presenting the metrics. For example, we'll discuss how to represent these KPIs and metrics with Business Intelligence tools. Date: March 18, 2014 Time: 12:00pm ET Location:…
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    April 22, 2014
    Killing User Sessions in SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 SP3
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    April 30, 2014
    SAP HANA and Intel's Ivy Bridge v2
  • Blog
    April 30, 2014
    SAP HANA and Intel's Ivy Bridge v2
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