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Data Mining

  1. Analysis Process Designer: Profile Data the Easy Way
    by Mike Curl, Principal Consultant, Bluefin Solutions

    Profiling key figures and characteristics in ODS objects, PSA data, and BW queries can be difficult, time consuming, and inefficient. The updated Analysis Process Designer tool in BW 3.5 vastly improves your ability to profile data, giving you more options to understand your data. Here’s how you do it.

  2. Data Mining with the Analysis Process Designer in SAP BW 3.5
    by Glen Leslie, BI Product Manager, SAP Labs

    The Analysis Process Designer (APD) workbench, introduced in BW 3.1 Content (BW 3.0B SP6), allows users to combine numerous transformations into a single data flow. It offers a less technical approach to enhancing subject-oriented, non-volatile data that has already been integrated, cleansed, and transformed in the data warehouse. The author examines current APD features and outlines future plans for integrating it with other data mining functionality in the upcoming BW 3.5 release set for later this year.

  3. Put BW's Newly Enhanced Data-Mining Tools to Use
    by Mark Heffernan, Managing Consultant, CRM and BW Business Development, SAP Asia

    BW has built-in data-mining capability that lets you perform many types of customer analytics without having a full mySAP CRM implementation. We show you how BW's seven data-mining tools and their associated models can help you answer key questions about your customers.

  4. Take Advantage of Association Analysis and See Your Sales Grow
    by Anton Karnaukhov, Business Process Technologies Manager, Pacific Coast Companies, Inc. (February 2009)

    Most people are familiar with the “customers who bought this item also bought...” concept popularized by Web giants such as amazon.com. Association analysis, a data mining algorithm available in the Data Mining Workbench, helps you identify these related product sets. Find out how to set up association analysis in three steps.

  5. Uncover Hidden Trends in Historical Data with Analysis Process Designer
    by Rajesh Yerragunta, Business Intelligence Lead, Platinum-DB Consulting

    Go beyond data warehousing to data mining. You can use Analysis Process Designer (APD) to discover hard-to-find trends that allow your company to make more informed decisions. Learn what APD is, how it differs from data warehousing, and how to implement it.

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