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    September 2, 2021
    On August 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved Nasdaq’s proposal to hold companies listed on the exchange accountable for board diversity. The new Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule sets a baseline requirement for diverse board membership and specifies a consistent set of disclosures so stakeholders can evaluate the  current board compositions of listed companies. Nasdaq…
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    September 10, 2021
    Like organizations in virtually every industry today, utilities are addressing a number of critical challenges and trends in the market, from infrastructure demands, to calls to improve the customer experience, to talent demands, and much more. How will the future for utilities evolve? In this informative podcast, Peter Tumminello and Claire Gotham offer a number of interesting insights into…
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    September 15, 2021
    Organizations look to CFOs and VPs of finance for additional actions and data that, until recently, were considered outside their purview. Results from a just released Protiviti Finance Trends Survey reveal that these leaders are increasingly relied on as a go-to source for insights required by companies to address fast-moving drivers of change: CFOs and VPs of finance are informing and shaping…
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    February 14, 2022
    Nearly two-thirds (64%) of C-suite and board members agree that the role of cities for business will only increase during the next decade. That’s just one key finding from a recent University of Oxford-Protiviti survey, in which 200 global business leaders shared their perspectives on how cities fit into their business strategy looking out to 2030 and beyond. Most business leaders view cities as…
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    March 1, 2022
    Frequent headlines of compliance breaches — and the likely morass of costly fines and penalties — are common in Australia’s regulatory environment. Meanwhile, executives are held personally liable, finding themselves on the monetary chopping block and facing potentially career-ending outcomes and/or criminal sanctions. Being on the wrong end of an audit by the Australian Securities &…
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    March 25, 2013
    The concept of “Null” is frequently misunderstood by people who are new to working with databases. Simply put, Null means “unassigned” or “no value”. In most types of databases (dBase and Paradox are exceptions that I know of, there are probably others…), fields that have not had a value put in them return Null when included in a select query. Null is not the same as an empty string. It is not…
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    April 1, 2013
    Scheduling reports to email is among the most popular methods used in BI4.  Recipients can receive reports right into their normal inbox without having to login to the BI4 system itself to retrieve them. So, while email scheduling is very useful, it has a shortcoming, especially when used with modern email servers – it doesn’t support SSL or TLS encryption. What are SSL and TLS Encryption…
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    April 5, 2013
     SAP Predictive Analysis is the latest addition to the SAP BusinessObjects suite and introduces entirely new functionality to the existing Business Objects toolbox.  Predictive Analysis integrates SAP’s Visual Intelligence data visualization tool with new predictive functionality powered by both open source R and SAP-written algorithms.  Predictive Analysis includes algorithms for…
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    April 15, 2013
    SAP Predictive Analysis is the latest addition to the SAP BusinessObjects suite and introduces entirely new functionality to the existing Business Objects toolbox.  Predictive Analysis integrates SAP’s Visual Intelligence data visualization tool with new predictive functionality powered by both open source R and SAP-written algorithms.  Predictive Analysis includes algorithms for time…
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    April 19, 2013
    Extract Trends, Predict Outcomes and Prepare for the Future.  The evolution of what is possible continues with SAP’s Predictive Analysis solution. The ability to analyze vast amounts of historical data and create accurate projections of future trends is no longer the sole domain of data scientists and the academic elite. With Predictive Analysis, the business person can now extract trends,…
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