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Improving Business Performance and Improving Sports Performance: Not So Different Improving Business Performance and Improving Sports Performance: Not So Different

SAP BusinessObjects has lots of experience of helping organizations access information and use it to increase performance — here’s a quick video of how we’re using that experience: As... 

An Introduction to the SAP 5O5 World Sailing Championships 2010 An Introduction to the SAP 5O5 World Sailing Championships 2010

There seems to be a connection between enterprise software billionaires and sail racing. Larry prefers the bigger boats, while Hasso prefers getting wet: For Plattner, sailing two man dinghies and jumping... 

New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype

Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype. The... 

Antivia Xcelsius Business Intelligence Dashboard with Web Intelligence Drill Antivia Xcelsius Business Intelligence Dashboard with Web Intelligence Drill

In an earlier post, I showed you can use BusinessObjects products like Xcelsius, Explorer on a mobile phone, and drill through to Web Intelligence running on the bi.ondemand.com BI-in-the-cloud platform. This... 

Presentation: The Future of Business Intelligence Presentation: The Future of Business Intelligence

I gave a presentation in Finland earlier this year as part of the Nordic “Butterfly” tour, talking about the future of Business Intelligence: Ever since the first abacus, information technology has... 

Xcelsius Dashboards on Your Android Mobile Phone Xcelsius Dashboards on Your Android Mobile Phone

The latest release of Android, v2.2 (“Froyo”) supports the Adobe flash technology used by Xcelsius (now called Dashboard Design) and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. So now you can access your dashboards,... 

Whiteboard Introduction Video to the SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio Whiteboard Introduction Video to the SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio

Here’s a short overview of the what, why, and how of SAP BusinessObjects, whiteboard-style…  Read More →

What I Learned about BI at SAP World Tour UK 2010 What I Learned about BI at SAP World Tour UK 2010

The SAP World Tour touched down at the ICC in Birmingham in the UK on July 8th, part of a program covering 80+ cities across the globe. Business intelligence was featured heavily throughout the day: during...