Clear Intelligence Future Presentation Screencam
Recorded screencam of the "Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic" Presentation
How to Build a Billion-Dollar European Software Company
How BusinessObjects became the first "European Silicon Valley startup", growing from zero to a billion dollars, by Bernard Liautaud
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Version 2.0 of the Social Network Analyzer is now available -- try it today and give your feedback!
Some Examples of How to Use 12sprints, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application
The SAP BusinessObjects decision-focused collaboration project, 12Sprints.com, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. This post gives an introduction to what you can do with the technology, and points you to some useful links.
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Here’s a recorded screencam version of the “Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic” presentation. You can download a pdf version here and the full PowerPoint...
Photo: Bernard Liautaud in the mid-90s Courtesy of London Business School, here’s a great presentation by Bernard Liautaud, founder and eighteen-year CEO of BusinessObjects, explaining how he and his...
The SAP BusinessObjects Social Network Analyzer came out last year, combining business intelligence with relationship data to create a “social intelligence” solution. It’s a prototype from the SAP...
SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos...
Please find below my presentation from today’s Gartner BI Summit EMEA in London. If you were there, thanks for attending, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! You can download a pdf version...
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Here is a season’s greetings dashboard that shows off some of the latest features of Xcelsius 2008 SP3. Tweet the color you’d like to see in the garland. The dashboard updates every 30 seconds....
Here’s a summary of some of the new things in the latest version of Xcelsius 2008. I’ve borrowed liberally from the official documentation that you can download, along with the program, here. New...
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