Business Analytics

Data Quality: Why it pays to take out the rubbish

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By James Blackburn | 27th March, 2012 | Business Analytics

What is an organisation’s greatest asset? For some it’s the people. Without Steve Jobs, Apple might have been half the company it is today. To others it’s the finance. Without a near $40bn cash-pile, Google might not have acquired Motorola Mobility. To others still it’s the brand. Without the $60bn brand….

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WHAT’S ALL THE HYPE AROUND HANA?

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By Cuan Gibson | 23rd January, 2012 | Business Analytics

A number of my clients have recently asked me about HANA and what it means to their existing data warehouse landscape and BI strategy; and if this technology is relevant for them. In order to answer these questions, two example scenarios may help to explain the options and benefits available to those thinking about deploying HANA.

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Mobile Intelligence on Apple (i/OS)

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By Jeremy Braker | 4th August, 2011 | Business Analytics, Business Technology & Composites, Mobility

The iphone/ipad mobility ship has sailed. But thankfully SAP Business Objects has gone from playing about in a sailboat (to which they are usually keen to associate) to a power boat which should close them right back up in the hand held business intelligence space. Version 4 of SAP Business Objects will offer an updated, and integrated, version of Business Objects Mobile (MoBI) with an Iphone and Ipad application to follow.

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Ramping up with Business Objects 4.0

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By Jeremy Braker | 4th July, 2011 | Business Analytics

We recently had the pleasure of working with a global brand management company to evaluate a pre general release version of SAP Business Objects 4.0 – engaging with SAP in the ramp up program that is currently well underway. For AgilityWorks it was a great opportunity to install and configure a version 4 environment outside of our internal cloud based evaluation servers and connect to a productive SAP Business Warehouse environment.

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The relevance of a layered data warehouse design approach…

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By Cuan Gibson | 11th February, 2011 | Business Analytics

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been around for a number of years and was arguably the brainchild of Bill Inmon. The Layered Scalable Architecture is the reference architecture based on these principles for SAP BW and has been generally adopted as the ‘best practice’ approach for building large scale BW data warehouses.

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