Mastering BusinessObjects Conference, Sydney Australia
The Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference was held in Manly, Sydney this week. The location was stunning – Australia has some of the best beaches in the world, and thanks to Pete Collett, who lent me a surfboard, I was able to catch a few waves at day break before heading back into the waterfront conference hotel to deliver my keynote presentations. The two-day event had a packed agenda, including great keynotes from Dave Rathbun of Integra... [Read More...]
Why BI Projects Fail and What To Do About it, Australia
This session was presented at Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney. It covers the six main areas that most often lead to BI project failure: Changing the Business People, Not Technology Process, Not Project Value, Not Cost Insight, Not Data Pragmatism, Not Rigid Process The slides are available in pdf format (3.7Mb) and ppt format (15.6Mb) and are posted on SlideShare and Scribd. Read More →
BI Competency Centers, Australia
This session was presented at the Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney. It covers: Why have a BI Competency Center BICC Organization and Staffing BICC Functional areas and Key Tasks Creating a BICC Overcoming Common BICC Issues BICC Examples The slides are available in pdf format (2.2Mb) and ppt format (4.6Mb) and are posted on SlideShare and Scribd. Read More →
Transforming BI, Australia
Ian Parker and I presented the first keynote at the Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney, standing in for Donald MacCormick. We took turns covering: Why BI is more strategic than ever in a downturn The SAP BusinessObjects vision of helping organizations link strategy and execution Integration and innovation plans including BusinessObjects Explorer and the Social Network Analyzer Prototype The slides are available in pdf format... [Read More...]
The Next Xcelsius? RoamBI Provides BusinessObjects BI for the iPhone
The original creator of SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius has done it again. Santiago Becerra founded Infommersion in 2002 and the company developed Xcelsius, which provided a intuitive and interactive dashboard interface for excel spreadsheets, using Adobe Flash technology. Donald MacCormick and others quickly spotted the potential for corporate data sources, and Infommersion was purchased by Business Objects in 2005, and Xcelsius quickly became an integral... [Read More...]
Dashboard Web Seminar: Empower Users With Critical Information
I’ve just completed a web seminar on business intelligence dashboard best practice, with Brad Devlin explaining how best to implement SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius. There are almost 900 people registered. Here’s the invitation text: EMPOWER USERS WITH CRITICAL BUSINESS INFORMATION Discover the Power of Interactive Dashboards at this Complimentary Web Seminar What if you could easily view up-to-the-minute, critical business information... [Read More...]
The Inevitable Wolfram|Alpha Problem: Semantics
Now that Wolfram|Alpha has launched, I thought I’d go take a look. After failing to find out the average happiness of France vs US (not a supported database yet, apparently), I tried out some of the examples and then checked out the “community” area. Inevitably, Wolfram|Alpha suffers from the same problems that have plagued every attempt to provide answers to human questions using technology since the dawn of computers: semantics, and specifically... [Read More...]
Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today
Wikipedia defines Web 3.0 as the “semantic web”, “making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.” We’ll get a step closer to that vision when Wolfram|Alpha (or maybe just “WolframAlpha” – their web site uses both) launches later today. Wolfram|Alpha is a product from Wolfram Research (famous for its beautiful Mathematica software) that has been generating... [Read More...]
Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!
As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out the product and learn how microfinance is helping reduce global poverty by visiting the excellent SAP BusinessObjects Explorer demo at http://microfinance.sap.com. It will challenge you to find answers to a few questions, and you’ll be able to do so, quickly and easily, without any training, using the intuitive new Explorer... [Read More...]
A New Data Architecture for Faster, Better BI: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Today at the SAPPHIRE user conference in Orlando, SAP announced it would “revolutionize BI with a new solution that delivers insight at the speed of thought”. The new package is called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated, and it combines the search and visualization capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Polestar (now renamed SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) with SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA). Photo: SAP CEO Léo Apotheker showing that... [Read More...]
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