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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 5, 2013
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    August 6, 2013
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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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    September 30, 2013
    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…
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    October 8, 2013
    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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