Clear Intelligence Future Presentation Screencam

Here’s a recorded screencam version of the “Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic” presentation. You can download a pdf version here and the PowerPoint version here (includes the Xcelsius dashboards). You’ll probably want to put it into full screen mode to appreciate the demos…

How to Build a Billion-Dollar European Software Company

Photo: Bernard Liautaud in the mid-90s Courtesy of London Business School, here’s a great presentation by Bernard Liautaud, founder and eighteen-year CEO of BusinessObjects, explaining how he and his team created the first “European silicon valley startup”, growing the company from zero to a billion dollars in revenue, and then selling to SAP for $6.7bn. Bernard is now a General Partner of Balderton Capital, one of the largest venture capital... [Read More...]

SAP BusinessObjects Social Intelligence Prototype V2 Launches

The SAP BusinessObjects Social Network Analyzer came out last year, combining business intelligence with relationship data to create a “social intelligence” solution. It’s a prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center. It can combine information from HR systems, CRM systems, project databases, committee attendee lists, distribution lists, and any other other system that contains relationships between people. The new version will... [Read More...]

SAP Augmented Corporate Reality Proof of Concept

[UPDATE: See this post for the soon-to-be released prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center] Here’s an example of “augmented corporate reality” based on the Layar platform and the SAP BusinessObjects ondemand.com platform, running on a Google Nexus One Android phone. These are all screenshots taken from a working proof of concept, shown as an example of the type of functionality business users might have access to in the future... [Read More...]

Some Examples of How to Use 12sprints, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application

SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative decision-making brings together: People – Get everyone on the same page Information – Share documents and data all in plain view Methods – Provide structure with business... [Read More...]

Some Examples of How to Use Streamwork, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application

[post updated to reflect new name, StreamWork]. SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative decision-making brings together: People – Get everyone on the same page Information – Share documents and data all in plain view Methods... [Read More...]

Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic

Please find below my presentation from today’s Gartner BI Summit EMEA in London. If you were there, thanks for attending, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! You can download a pdf version here and the full PowerPoint file, including the Xcelsius dashboards here. Update: You can see a screencam recording of this presentation here.  Read More →