Concrete Steps to Performance Excellence: Insight 07 Donald MacCormick Keynote

At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Transformation Officer Donald MacCormick presented on the concrete steps organizations can take to achieve Performance Excellence.  Read More →

Collective Intelligence: Insight 07 Marge Breya Keynote

At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Marketing Officer Marge Breya presented on the five Cs of intelligence: Content, Context, Collaboration, Community, Collective.  Read More →

Insight 07 Mark Doll Keynote

At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando yesterday, Mark Doll, Senior VP and General Manager of Services and EPM covered the need to bridge the gap between finance and IT teams with enterprise performance management systems. Trevor Walker, the VP of EPM product marketing, showed a demo of the latest integrated EPM technology from Business Objects.    Read More →

Insight 07 Bernard Liautaud Keynote

It’s the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference in Orlando. Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board Bernard Liautaud’s keynote covered the future of “full-spectrum Business Intelligence”, including the launches of Crystal Reports 2008 and the new BusinessObjects Polestar products. Other products featured in the demonstrations included: BusinessObjects Edge Series for Midmarket Organizations Business Objects... [Read More...]

Insight 07 John Schwarz Keynote

At the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference this morning, CEO John Schwarz presented the importance of Performance Excellence across the organization, illustrated with examples from AT&T, Columbia Valley Health, and Disneyland Paris.  Read More →

SAP Business Objects Press Conference

Here are the slides that were shown as part of the official SAP / Business Objects press conference. My notes on the Q&A, from the English-language translation of the Paris webcast — NOT verbatim, accurate quotes. Were you also approached by other players? If so, who were they? I’m not going to comment on the long list of people who were once interested in Business Objects over the last few years. As the leader in the market, it... [Read More...]

SAP and Business Objects

It hasn’t always been easy to access data from SAP systems. The Business Objects acquisition will help…  Read More →

So: it’s SAP, for $6.8bn!

After years of rumors, the news is finally here: it’s SAP for 4.8 billion euros. This will be the biggest acquisition SAP has ever done,  and the biggest in the BI industry. In an interesting twist, it’s almost a Business Objects acquisition — it is proposed that the company be run as a “stand-alone” entity managed by current Business Objects CEO John Schwarz, and the team that looks after previous SAP... [Read More...]

Crossing the Chasm: Delivering a Strategic, Enterprise BI System

The third and final web seminar presentation on BI Maturity that I did last week with Wayne Eckerson: how to make BI a strategic asset for the organization. As I joked with Wayne on the call, I think the maturity model probably needs extending with an additional ”canyon”, because many organizations have managed to deploy BI enterprise-wide, but still haven’t managed to connect it with the strategy and finances of the organization. Click... [Read More...]

Spanning the Gulf: Getting Traction for Your BI Solution

Here’s a presentation Wayne Eckerson and I did last week as part of a series on BI Maturity. Click here to listen to the recording.  Read More →