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    September 17, 2013
    SAP Acquires KXEN - What does this mean for Predictive Analytics?
    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…
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    September 30, 2013
    SAP Predictive Analysis and the MLB Post Season
    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
    What's New in SAP Lumira 1.0.12?
    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:                       …
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    October 11, 2013
    How to secure information views in SAP HANA
  • Blog
    October 14, 2013
    Static Variables in Data Services Functions
    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…
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    March 4, 2024
    Leading the Drive for Profitability
    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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    March 4, 2024
    There’s a Bright Future for SAP BusinessObjects 4.3 and Beyond
    What’s ahead for SAP’s BusinessObjects? Customers currently on BOBJ 4.2 should know that it will go out of support at the end of this year. Which means that now is the optimum time to make the move to update the BOBJ application. Early direction provided by SAP, valid through 2022, stated that SAP BusinessObjects 4.3 would be the last on-premises version, supported until 2027, while all future…
  • Blog
    March 17, 2015
    St. Patrick's Day! March 17, 2015
    Every year on March 17th, everyone all across the world celebrates and hold international festivals for Saint Patrick's Day. This infographic shows that there are many aspects to Saint Patrick's Day. From Boston to Savannah, there are many cities across the United States to visit for all those who wish to be Irish for a day. It is commonly known that drinking is an essential part of the holiday.…
  • Blog
    March 13, 2015
    Welcome to the new SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0!
    SAP quietly released the new generation of their user-facing predictive analytics offering in February 2015.  This represents the first time their 2 separate tools, Infinite Insight (formerly KXEN) and Predictive Analysis, have been shipped together.  This release also introduces new names for both products, as well as some of the sub components that were part of the former Infinite…
  • Podcast
    March 13, 2024
    Podcast ǀ Decoding CMMC Compliance for Government Contractor Data
    In this special edition of the Protiviti Legal Perspectives podcast series, we delve into the complexities of new data protection and cybersecurity government regulations in the defense industry with Alex Alexander W. Major, Partner, McCarter & English and Perry Keating, President of Protiviti Government Services. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) was recently promulgated…
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