Comments on: American Recovery Act Business Intelligence

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:39:57 +0000

Timo,

Thank you much for posting this information. As a professional services firm, we are seeing an increased number of requests from our clients with experience in implementing SAP/BO Reporting for ARRA.

As you can imagine, identifying individuals with this type of background is beyond challenging. Would you or any of the group have any recommendations?

Regards,

Tom Anderson
New Directions

tanderson@gonewdirections.com

By: SAP & IBM creating software to provide transparency to Stim funds spending. How cool is that!?! « Epiphanyblog

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:37:49 +0000

[...] BI Questions Blog lays out the SAP application, showing screen grabs of the data required, how it’s reported and so much more. There really will be transparency in the spending of the stimulus funds. Pretty darn cool. [...]

By: Mohanraj CP

Mohanraj CP — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:04:21 +0000

Another unrleated comment from me! I was reading this comparison between Microstratgey 9 and BusinessObjects XI 3.1 by Microstratgey.

http://www.microstrategy.com/quicktours/businessobjects/index.asp

I understand this article will not talk about the strengths of BusinessObjects. But few things that I wish BusinessObjects can bring in are
– The consistency across the different reporting panels for webintelligence
– Reusable components for webintelligence. Like data provider reuse or report reuse.
– Consolidate the number of information delivery tools to two or three.
– The long term wish would be to have one information delivery tool which could be catered to all types of information delivery needs. Like the application should be able to adapt and metamorph it’s interface based on the user

By: David White

David White — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:27:48 +0000

Nice post Timo. I’m not sure if the federal government is effectively mandating the use of Business Intelligence, but I hope to find out very soon……The Aberdeen Group just launched a research survey to understand how government departments and agencies perceive the monitoring and reporting requirements related to ARRA – and what they are doing to meet those requirements – which are looming large on the radar now. Anyone in government who would like to take part can find the survey here: http://www.aberdeen.com/survey/ARRA_compliance/

Thanks,
David.

By: Alan S. Michaels

Alan S. Michaels — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:10:07 +0000

Hello Tim,

Seeing the terms “American Recovery Act” & “Business Intelligence” might not help the Business Intelligence industry.

On this side of the pond, the question being asked is:
“How much worse off are the insurance, banking and automotive industry sectors because AIG, Citibank and GM did not go bankrupt?” Certainly industry structure, market share and pricing would have improved for ALL remaining competitors with the elimination of a weak competitor.

(Tim, I greatly enjoy your blog. This topic is a hot one because America, a.k.a. USA Inc., is now in over 170 lines of business according to our analysis at eCompetitors.com – and, in my opinion, business intelligence is not a term often associated with how our government runs anything; and any BI reporting system that implies otherwise will be unfairly criticized because the data used will certainly be suspect. Thanks again for your great posts, Alan

By: Mark Finnern

Mark Finnern — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:46:53 +0000

Hi Tim,

This is really cool. SAP bringing transparency into where all that money is going. As the US is not the only country doing having stimulus packages, I am convinced this will help throughout the world.

I love that we are on top of this opportunity.

By the way is that you in the white paper?

Great post, Mark.