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    November 5, 2013
    Making SAP Information Steward a Key Part of Your Data Governance Strategy
    Part 1 - Data Governance Defined Data Governance: You've probably heard the buzz about this topic that is becoming a larger part of many IT conversations. But similar to the vague term "Big Data" these days, just what exactly is data governance? Is it a piece of software that one can simply buy off the shelf? And what are the benefits that one can expect to receive by implementing it? Chances…
  • Blog
    November 7, 2013
    What's new in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SP8?
  • Blog
    November 11, 2013
    Extracting Metadata from ODBC Sources
    Metadata is essential to well documented ETL processes. Ideally, this metadata starts with the source system table and column descriptions and other system specific information. When this information is not available directly inside of Data Services, retrieving it manually can fill in the gaps and help your users get a complete map of how data arrives in the warehouse. Generally, the lack of…
  • Blog
    December 2, 2013
    Bullets on BI Mobile
    No. Not a new gun law. Instead, these bullets give us the ability to visualize a quantitative measure compared to a target and a qualitative range of performance values. A bullet chart was originally designed to replace gauges and dials that can take up too much space on a dashboard view. If you have not used them, I would encourage you to incorporate them as a report visualization element. In BI…
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    December 3, 2013
    Data Geek Finalist Announced
    The 2013 Data Geek Challenge finalist are in! Data Geeks from all over the world joined this years challenge to fight the Lord of Dark Data. With over 150 submissions, each category was narrowed down to only 3 finalist. Decision First Technologies is proud to announce that Hillary Bliss has been named one of SAP Lumira's Data Geek Finalist. You can review each submission and cast your vote by…
  • Blog
    December 3, 2013
    Data Geek Finalist Announced
    The 2013 Data Geek Challenge finalist are in! Data Geeks from all over the world joined this years challenge to fight the Lord of Dark Data. With over 150 submissions, each category was narrowed down to only 3 finalist. Decision First Technologies is proud to announce that Hillary Bliss has been named one of SAP Lumira's Data Geek Finalist. You can review each submission and cast your vote by…
  • Blog
    December 4, 2013
    Why is SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 SP2 so amazing? "Group By Variables"
  • Blog
    December 9, 2013
    Integrating Secure FTP into Data Services
    SAP Data Services includes decently robust native support for FTP transport, as long as you don't mind it being non-secured. However, understandably, many applications require the use of secured FTP transport methodologies, since the data being transmitted is often of a sensitive nature. You probably don't want to risk your data being intercepted in transit, especially if its going outside of the…
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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…
  • Blog
    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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