SAP Discusses Latest BI Roadmap

Yesterday, many SAP BusinessObjects customers, mentors, partners and even a few competitors listened in as Steve Lucas as he unveiled SAP’s bold, new analytics strategy.  The twittersphere as active as tweets were tracked using #allaccessanalytics, we had a lot of fun.  Zimkhita Buwa quipped: Steve emphasized that SAP isn’t delivering a ‘mission accomplished’ banner.  It’s just […]

Building a Predictive Model

Last year SAP launched a new predictive solution for the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform.  Prior to 2012, SAP had partnered with SPSS to provide predictive functionality; however once SPSS was acquired by IBM, it was time for SAP to develop their own solution.  This gave birth to Predictive Analysis. In version 1.0, Predictive Analysis was […]

Visual Intelligence Goes Predictive….

It was only a few short months ago when Visual Intelligence was released.  We were promised a rapid development and release cycle, but I never expected this many changes is such a sort time. Here is a quick summary: 1.0.1 – Visual data analysis and data discovery for the Desktop 1.0.2 – Freehand SQL, Publish […]