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Machine learning is becoming such an important business technology that some of the largest suppliers of technology are providing free courses for executives. One example is SAP, with its Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell course. Many suppliers have traditionally catered to executive needs for information by creating bland, high…

SAP Machine Learning is being introduced to make its business applications more intelligent and empower its ecosystem to build machine learning (ML) applications for customers. Spanning its own solutions, partner programs and educational offerings, these programs will help accelerate ML adoption across SAP’s global customer base. This announcement was made at…

SAP has announced the next update for the SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA) suite, on-premise and cloud editions. As part of its road map to help customers across industries and regions drive their digital transformation with the next-generation business suite, SAP will deliver a massive wave of simplification…

Streaming data processing and analytics is gaining momentum as businesses gear up for real-time processing of streaming data – typically from devices and sensors, but also other sources such as financial data and news. Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy…

As data sources proliferate so the need for good ETL tools increases. Here is a fairly extensive list of ETL tools currently available. Free ETL Tools Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design…

These free BI and dashboard platforms are pretty well fully functional – only Lumira is somewhat restricted in data sources (the free edition anyway). InetSoft’s Style Scope Agile Edition™ is an easy to use, interactive dashboard software application that includes real time reporting and visual analytics capabilities. It is an…

Stream processing and analytics is gaining momentum as businesses gear up for real-time processing of streaming data – typically from devices and sensors, but also other sources such as financial data and news. Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to…

Positioning: SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0 will be of particular interest to existing SAP users, and combines SAP Predictive Analysis software and SAP InfiniteInsight. This makes it very suitable for customer focused analytics, and SAP clearly understands that creating the actual model is just a small part of the journey. To…

Excel Add-Ins Jedox Excel add-in with good reporting and visualisation capabilities, and also a web based interface to its BI and reporting tools. Excellent integration with SAP. GL Wand is an Excel-based financial reporting tool for finance professionals using SAP Financials for SAP 4.7, ERP 2004/ECC 5.0, or ERP 2005/ECC 6.0.…