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Decision trees with SAP Predictive Analytics and SAP HANA

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Data mining, as per definition, is a discipline whose main aim is to discover patterns and most importantly, to predict and gain more knowledge on your data. This is done by combining different methods and approaches from artificial intelligence and statistics disciplines. One of the most common problems is how to build accurate and optimal classifier that given raw data helps us to build a model to classify future cases. There are many algorithms and methods available and we will refer in this blog article to the C4.5 which is available in the SAP Predictive Analytics tool. SAP Predictive analytics (SAP Infinite Insight) provides data mining capabilities that help many companies to anticipate customer behaviors and demands.

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Key Concepts to Optimize SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Platform

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SAP BusinessObjects (BO) BI 4 Platform has come with many improvements that have made the system more complex. Rep-Up-GraphWe, as BI 4 administrators, are required to know how this application works in order to apply the proper optimization improvements to the platform, when it is required. In this blog article, we will cover the most important concepts that need to be considered as a first step to increase the performance of the BI platform. It is very important for a good designer to understand the conceptual tiers in the BI Platform: Application Tier, Intelligence tier and Processing tier. We will refer to each one of them and we will nail down some optimization tips.

ETL with Microsoft SSIS: First steps and common issues

First impression when using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), the developer’s first impression is the tool provides powerful features in addition is simple to use. Although this is true, there are some common errors that can make us waste our time. The purpose of this blog article is to cover some of these very common issues and save some time when starting to develop a solution with Microsoft SSIS.