While Jack Dawson was a fictional character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio for the movie Titanic, there was an actual J. Dawson who was aboard the Titanic. But this ‘J’ stood for Joseph, not Jack. Over the years, data was collected on many of the members who were aboard the Titanic and we know quite […]
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The BI Administrator’s Cockpit
The BI Administrators’ Cockpit should definitely be one of many reasons considered when determining “when” to upgrade to BI 4.2.
Linear Regression Models in a Nut Shell: A Very Simplified Look
Is your data a werewolf? Is your data affected by the phases of the moon? Or some other factors inside or outside your organization? Linear regression models may be that silver bullet that can help you better understand the factors that have an effect on your data. These models can be very telling when it […]
An Exploration of BOBJ On BW – Part 1: A Tale of Two Lingos
If you’ve been in the Business Intelligence (BI) business long enough, you’ve had to deal with your evil twin. You’ve been working contently off a relational database and now you have to work with BEx queries; The query developers now have to cater to reporting tools like Web Intelligence (Webi). I hear they call it […]
BI Zen – It Could Happen Part 1
Every day in the BI world you are fighting against opposing goals. Users who want a super flexible reporting system that can answer any question they can dream up without interaction with IT in real time and policies that require security, formal approvals, processes and system stability. Basically how can you let users do whatever […]
Linear Regression Models in a Nut Shell: A Very Simplified Look
Is your data a werewolf? Is your data affected by the phases of the moon? Or some other factors inside or outside your organization? Linear regression models may be that silver bullet that can help you better understand the factors that have an effect on your data.
An Exploration of BOBJ on BW – Part 1: A Tale of Two Lingos
If you’ve been in the Business Intelligence (BI) business long enough, you’ve had to deal with your evil twin.
SAP Analytics Outstanding Partner of the Year
At SAP’s recent field sales kickoff meeting (FKOM), EV Technologies was recognized as SAP Analytics Outstanding Partner of the Year for 2015. During the award presentation, I didn’t get cut off (thanks Kanye!) and I didn’t swear (apologies to any Adele fans). But my mind did a flashback to seven years ago when I started EV […]
Business Intelligence Year One
In January of 2015 I began my Business Intelligence (BI) journey as an intern for EV Technologies. At that time I was attending Grand Valley State University (GVSU) pursuing a BBA in MIS and Marketing. Prior to my internship, I had been introduced to a few BI tools and continued to learn during my year […]
Predicting Peyton Manning Part 2: Super Bowl 50 Edition
A couple of weeks back we took a look at predicting Peyton Manning’s 2015 season using SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0. It wasn’t a good time for Peyton Manning. He had just gotten pulled out of the worst statistical game of his career with a QB passer rating of 0 (which we accurately predicted would be […]