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    July 8, 2013
    The BusinessObjects 4.0 release gave birth to a few new interesting features to the BI toolkit. One key enhancement was the addition to the Query Browser to the Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius) application. The idea was inherent and simple: allow the developer to obtain data directly from a Universe or BEx Query, thus bypassing the use of the embedded Excel spreadsheet. In this context, the feature…
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    July 15, 2013
    With the release of version 1.0.11 of Predictive Analysis in early June 2013, SAP added a feature allowing users to add new R algorithms to the Predictive Analysis algorithm library. This might be desirable for several reasons: An organization has an existing model or algorithm that they would like to make available within Predictive Analysis for either analytical or comparison purposes A…
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    July 23, 2013
    Data Quality, part of SAP Data Services, is a powerful tool for cleansing and matching customers, businesses, postal addresses, and much more. However, the wide range of options and capabilities can be intimidating for new users. If you've followed the steps in the previous posts in this series, you should have functioning cleanse transforms generating a basic set of customer and address data,…
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    July 30, 2013
    Mining Social Media data for customer feedback is perhaps one of the greatest untapped opportunities for customer analysis in many organizations today. Social Media data is freely available and allows organizations to personally identify and interact directly with customers to resolve any potential dissatisfaction. In today's blog post, I'll discuss using SAP Data Services, SAP HANA, and SAP…
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    August 13, 2013
    Recently, Decision First principal consultant Chris Hickman composed a series of videos on BusinessObjects 4.0 SP6. Checkout Chris' quick overview on SAP BusinessOjects Explorer which combines the simplicity and speed on Internet search with the analytical power of business intelligence - for faster, more informed decision-making. In Explorer you can: Give all of your users the autonomy to…
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    August 19, 2013
    Take Your BI Mobile with SAP BusinessObjects Solutions SAP® mobile BI solutions deliver real-time visibility into big data with a secure, mobile experience that features interactive visuals and intuitive search. Empower everyone in your organization to take action and deliver results from anywhere with business intelligence solutions delivered to your mobile device. By using…
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    September 3, 2013
    What is a transactional delta table? A transactional delta table is a way to look back at the history of your data and determine what changes have been made to a particular transaction over time. It will show when a transaction was initially created, and then how and when that transaction changed after the initial creation. Building one with SAP Data Services is a simple process that I'll…
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    September 17, 2013
    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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