BI Is Indeed Counter-Cyclical: Market Shares
It’s official: according to Gartner, as reported by Mary Hayes Weier in Information Week, business intelligence is indeed counter-cyclical (see earlier post on Why Will 2009 be a Great Year for Business Intelligence). Despite the tough economic climate, BI is growing at a healthy 22%, with SAP/Business Objects leading the pack with 24% of the market, or $2.1 billion in sales last year. Here are the market shares, in Xcelsius:
BusinessObjects TweetCloud
Go here to see who’s tweeting about BusinessObjects, and the key terms they’re talking about: http://tweetcloud.com/search/term/businessobjects. My twitter handle, timoelliott, made it into the cloud – oops, I guess I talk about work too much… Thanks to Ricardo Polo-Malouvier for the link! Read More →
SAP’s New CIO on The Power of Information
SAP announced today that Oliver Bussmann will be taking over as CIO from September 1, 2009, reporting to the SAP COO Ernie Gunst. Bussmann will be moving to Walldorf from the San Francisco Bay Area where has been working as the Regional CIO of Allianz for North America and Mexico. His prior roles include other posts within the Allianz Group in Germany and the United States, as well as at Deutsche Bank. He began his career at IBM in Germany. Bussmann... [Read More...]
What are SAP, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce.com doing with OpenSocial in the Enterprise?
Google has posted videos of all the sessions at the recent Google I/O 2009 developer’s conference. SAP attended as part of the session on “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”). Overall, the session was a little disorganized and meandering, but it did end up giving an overview of what companies like IBM, Oracle, SalesForce.com, and Atlassian are doing to leverage social networking technologies such as OpenSocial within organizations: Mark Weitzel... [Read More...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer was recently launched at SAPPHIRE. Here’s a long list of Explorer product, trial, customer, technical, and press links that I’m aware of so far. Product Overviews Explorer aims to meet the high expectations of today’s business users, by combining the simplicity and speed of Internet search with high-performance and instant response times. You can employ familiar business terms to find relevant information across... [Read More...]
SAP BusinessObjects @ SAP World Tour, Paris
The SAP World Tour 2009 is underway and over 5,000 people signed up to attend the free event in Paris on June 2nd and 3rd at the Porte de Versailles Expo, with keynote presentations from the Directeur Générale of SAP France, Pascal Rialland and Luc Ferry, former French Education Minister – and Philosopher (France is one of the only countries where people can call themselves philosophers and still wield real influence!) The SAP BusinessObjects... [Read More...]
Economist CIO and Technology Leaders Forum, London
I presented yesterday evening at an executive dinner forum for CIOs at Claridge’s in London. The event was part of The Economist Conferences’ CIO and Technology Leaders forum, which brought together CIOs from a diverse range of companies including Rentokil, Rolls-Royce, the Salvation Army, Tube Lines, BAA, and Aston Martin Lagonda. Carla Rapoport of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) took the attendees through the highlights of a new study... [Read More...]
Economist Research: Decision-Making in Turbulent Times
Technology is indeed the answer! Or at least, that’s what is suggested by a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, Staying the course? Technology decision-making in turbulent times. The study shows that the current climate provides a good opportunity to drive through major initiatives, that business leaders are looking to technology as in important instrument to prepare their firms for recovery, and that the key importance of better information... [Read More...]
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