Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog 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… Blog 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: … Blog 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… Blog 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… Blog 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.… Client Story March 6, 2024 Global Payments Leader Improves Contract Lifecycle Management Processes Protiviti helped our client select and implement a lifecycle management system including PMO activities, process design contract and business requirements documentation, legacy contract data extraction, super user training and UAT. Blog March 1, 2024 C-Suite Confidential: The CHRO’s Rapidly Evolving Role The big picture: The role of the CHRO is continually shifting and transforming. Boards are looking to them to answer questions about talent strategy and organizational culture in today’s tightening labor market. Why is it important? HR leaders must continually add new skills, reshuffle priorities, foster new relationships and redefine themselves in response to global talent trends,… Load More