BI for Baby: Dashboards to Track Your Child’s KPIs (And The Rest of Us)

Prepare your child for the new world of business from its very earliest hours! Trixie Telemetry has released Trixie Tracker, which includes everything an analytic-obsessed parent needs to track baby’s key performance indicators, including: Sleep Tracking Bowel movements Feeding schedule Medicines And many, many more – including support for mobile: How much longer before this application is available for grownups, too? Well, it’s probably... [Read More...]

OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)

The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim to fame: we went to the same high school, Poole Grammar). The term was chosen to contrast with OLTP or online transaction processing, and was prompted by some clever marketing folks at Essbase, who wanted to promote their multidimensional database product. Codd was famous for his twelve rules defining the relational model and... [Read More...]

Auto-Tweet Directly from PowerPoint And Other Twitter Tool Updates

Another round of updates to the PowerPoint Twitter Tools, including: Auto-tweeting An additional feedback slide An option for secure internal use A customizable text-zooming tool The ability to set up values in advance (for example, to add the tools into a conference template) To access all these tools, please go to the main download page: http://timoelliott.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/. Here’s some information about each of the new features: PowerPoint... [Read More...]

SAP’s 12sprints Collaborative Decision-Making Prototype

You can now sign up to be a beta participant of SAP’s 12sprints project, “a collaborative environment for people to make better decisions based on data” or a “people-connecting, data-sharing, decision-making tool that actually sets work in motion.” Early versions of the prototype were glimpsed during demonstrations by Léo Apotheker and Ian Kimbell at SAP SAPPHIRE in Berlin last year, and by Marge Breya at SAP TechEd in Vienna, and the... [Read More...]

Twitter and Text Analysis to Help You Surf Through Traffic

The first official SAP iPhone application is already available on iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s probably not much use to you unless you happen to be reading this in Brisbane, Australia. But the free application, created by the folks in the SAP Research center who brought you the Google Wave / SAP “Gravity” prototype, is a wonderful example of what Web 2.0 technology can do in today’s increasingly wired world. Here’s the blurb from the... [Read More...]

SAP’s First Official iPhone Application

Not What You Might Think No, SAP’s first official iPhone application is NOT the BusinessObjects Explorer iPhone Application that Marge Breya demonstrated during the keynote of SAP TechEd Vienna, and which Alexis Naibo of the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center used to win the Demo Jam contest. That application isn’t quite yet available on iTunes (but will be shortly). For more information about this forthcoming application, check out the demonstration... [Read More...]

E2.0 Conference Panel: Is Enterprise 2.0 a Crock?

At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, David Berlind hosted a session called “is Enterprise 2.0 a Crock”, drawing inspiration from Dennis Howlett’s Enterprise 2.0 – What a Crock post, and Andrew McAfee’s riposte: Enterprise 2.0 is a Crock: Discuss. The panelists were all members of the 2.0 Adoption Council (from left to right in the photo above) Greg Lowe of Alcatel-Lucent, Megan Murray of Booz Allen Hamilton, Bryce Williams... [Read More...]

Enterprise 2.0 Internal Evangelist of the Year: Claire Flanagan of CSC

At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Andrew McAfee just opened the magic envelope and revealed that the winner of the first Enterprise 2.0 “Internal Evangelist of the Year” award is Claire Flanagan for her work on CSC’s “C3: Connect | Communicate | Collaborate” environment. For more information about the project, see Claire’s Blog. In summary “CSC is a going to be a very different company because of Claire’s work”.... [Read More...]

We've Come a Long Way — Summary of Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco 2009 Opening Keynotes

It’s a sunny Fall morning in San Francisco, and Steve Wylie of TechWeb kicked off the first San Francisco version of the E2.0 event, talking about the changes he’s seen over the last few years. In particular, he pointed to the the rich case studies, larger vendors, and dedicated service providers that are present at today’s event as evidence of the industry’s increasing maturity. Tammy Erickson, President of nGenera Innovation, started her... [Read More...]