SAP Social Media Engagement = Revenue & Profits?
Some new research has been published on the EngagementDB web site on how social media engagement correlates with revenue and profit for the 100 Best Global Brands as measured by BusinessWeek and Interbrand. The report, The world’s most valuable brands. Who’s most engaged?, attempts to measure the financial worth of social media activities of top brands, including SAP. The study summarizes brand engagement into four categories: Mavens, such... [Read More...]
SAP Business By Design Adds Third-Party Web Services
SAP today announced new collaboration agreements that allow SAP Business ByDesign users to more easily leverage web services from third-party providers, including: Business and investment news. Users can access investment research and other data from Hoover’s, Morningstar, and Business Wire, Google News, and Google Finance, and combine it with their own information about customers and suppliers. Mapping and address services. Users can map and route... [Read More...]
Implementing Business Intelligence Standards: Save Money and Improve Business Insight
At the end of last year, I wrote a white paper on implementing business intelligence standards – here’s a blog post that adapts the context (the full white paper is available as a download at the bottom of the post) Executive Summary: Business Intelligence, Essential in a Tough Economic Climate Citing business intelligence (BI) as a strategic technology, analyst firm Gartner observes, “BI can have a direct positive impact on a company’s business... [Read More...]
Needle in a Haystack Blog Area
If you want to go to one place to get all the news about what’s going on with SAP BusinessObjects, try the “Needle in a Haystack” area of the SAP Collaboration Workspace (powered by Jive Software, who now uses our on-demand BI software as part of their offer). In includes links to selected employee blogs and twitter accounts, and other information feeds about SAP BusinessObjects – see the screenshot below for a taste of the content. ... [Read More...]
Social Networking @ SAP: CubeTree
SAP has been a long-time user of Jive Software’s forum and workspace technology (formerly called ClearSpace, now SBS for “Social Business Software”), and there are close commercial ties between the two companies. Notably, Jive’s platform is used to power the SAP Collaboration Workspace area that is used for both external collaboration with customers as well as internal collaboration – including the main internal “SAP 2.0” forum for... [Read More...]
SAP Social Media Guidelines 2009
SAP recently announced a new set of Social Media Participation Guidelines and an internal forum to help employees make the most of new social media channels such as Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In the spirit of Web 2.0, and like other organizations such as Intel and IBM, we would like to share our guidelines with the community. SAP Social Media Participation Guidelines 2009 SAP Global Communications, SAP Global Marketing June 2009 This... [Read More...]
Augmented Business Intelligence Reality?
Following a tweet from James Governor, AKA @monkchips, and a post from Tom Raftery, I’ve just seen a slice of the future of mobile business intelligence. A Dutch startup called Layar is providing mobile augmented reality for Android-based phones, based on the phone’s GPS and internal compass. You just use the phone’s camera, choose a “layar” of information (house prices, local jobs, nightclubs, etc.), point it anywhere you like, and it... [Read More...]
A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big problems plaguing the use of on-demand business intelligence has been concerns over data security. As Forbes and others have reported, the new techniques could reassure companies who want to take benefit of cloud computing for analysis (at a cost of massive computing power). As IBM Research VP Charles Lickel notes... [Read More...]
Over 100 Free SAP BusinessObjects Web Seminars
Looking for some free training in these difficult economic times? Here’s a long, long list (OK, so there are “only” 96 of them) of free web seminars courtesy of the SDN BusinessObjects Web Seminar Series and Jason Cao. They cover almost every aspect of the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can register to be notified by email of upcoming BusinessObjects webinars and suggest topics... [Read More...]
The End of Relational Databases?
Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-founder, chairman, and “Chief Software Advisor” has been giving a series of talks including his keynote at SAPPHIRE 2009 on why in his view “disk has become yesterday’s tape”, and why column storage and in-memory techniques are the future for both data warehousing AND enterprise applications, displacing the 20-year reign of relational databases. Experts have advocated column databases such as Sybase IQ and LucidDB... [Read More...]
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