BI in Brussels (Against Economic Turmoil)
I’m just returning from Brussels (actually, the new SAP Lounge venue at Vilvoorde), where I was invited to give the keynote presentation at a “Reporting and Business Intelligence Session” for SAP customers, on the theme of “How to use Business Intelligence to Counter Economic Turmoil.” (Side note: This post was composed and uploaded over the free wifi while traveling at around 190 miles an hour – I’m proud to be European!) Apart... [Read More...]
Social Networking Analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a great new prototype called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data, using business intelligence techniques to display and discover organizational relationships There have already been lots of products available to visualize public social networks such as Twitter. But up until now, there hasn’t been any technology designed from scratch to let people analyze corporate... [Read More...]
SAP Social Network Analyzer Prototype
[update -- there's now a v2 available] SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a prototype of some great new Web 2.0 technology called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships. It provides the missing link between social networking platforms and enterprise information systems, by letting organizations leveraging data available in corporate information... [Read More...]
New SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center
SAP BusinessObjects has just launched a new Innovation Center, taking over from the the existing BusinessObjects Labs at http://labs.businessobjects.com. The Innovation Center is modeled after Google Labs. It showcases new software prototypes based on concepts and ideas from customers, partners, and internal teams. Anybody is free to download and try them, but they are not supported for production environments. Feedback is encouraged, and used to... [Read More...]
Web 2.0 Performance Appraisal (Cartoon)
BI on the Bosphorus
I just presented the keynote at an SAP BusinessObjects conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Audience feedback was very positive, with the only complaint being the relative lack of local expert resources in some of the BusinessObjects products (although we’ve done a lot of training, there’s a huge new set of product available and demand has been high). SAP customer presentations included Turkish Telecom and their Governance, Risk, and Compliance... [Read More...]
Breaking Up (Cartoon)
Collaborative Web 2.0 Innovation With SAP
There’s increasing awareness that collaboration with customers, partners, and other experts is essential in order to build the right products in the future. To do this, SAP has built a community ecosystem for innovation. In addition to the community sites for individuals to share information about industry expertise, business processes, SAP development, and SAP BusinessObjects, there are two technology lab organizations dedicated to getting input... [Read More...]
Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?
I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help reposting some of it in the light of recent events. All those financial wizards were making a fortune based on the money they were “creating” — money that has since turned out to be largely fictitious. Top hedge fund managers were earning more in the time it took for an average New York City cab ride (8 minutes) than the average American made in a year. As I said with... [Read More...]
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