Introducing SAP StreamWork: New Decision Collaboration

It’s now official: SAP has released its brand-new Web 2.0 product called StreamWork. The project was initially called “Constellation” within SAP, and was first exposed to beta customers on the web site 12sprints.com, as covered in earlier postings on this site. Why the name? It’s a variant on “workstream”, which according to Wikipedia is: “A flow of output, the activities and transactions, that a worker produces as they go about their... [Read More...]

Istanbul SAP BusinessObjects BI Forum Keynote

Turkey is investing heavily in business intelligence. It was  SAP’s 2nd-fastest growing region worldwide last year. Nine out of the top 10 Turkish banks use BusinessObjects, and 3 out of the top 4 telecom companies. I presented the keynote presentation at the SAP BusinessObjects BI Forum in Istanbul this morning, on the theme “The Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic”. It covers the current trends in the... [Read More...]

Jive Analytics Embeds SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand

Thanks to InformationWeek, here’s a quick demonstration by Jive Software’s Director of Analytics, Dan Short, that shows how Jive is using SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand to give their customers easy insight into social community growth.  Read More →

Stunning Business Intelligence Visualizations… from 1870

FastCompany has a great article this week on the results of the 1870 census, and the hand-made graphics (“BI –2.0”?) that were made from the data (thanks to RadicalCartography.net and the Library of Congress). [NOTE -- the original version of this post erroneously said "1830" throughout] Here’s a selection of my favorites – click on each one to get the full graphic. US geology – the hand-shading is so much nicer to look at than computer-generated... [Read More...]

SAP and Web 2.0 in a Nutshell, Summarized and Explained

I believe SAP is an under-appreciated leader in the Web 2.0 space, and this blog attempts to explain why. First, I should first point out that there are three distinct categories you can talk about SAP interacting with Web 2.0 technology: Web 2.0 by SAP – Web 2.0 products and services SAP provides to customers Web 2.0 with SAP – how SAP uses Web 2.0 techniques to interact with our customers and partners Web 2.0 at SAP – how SAP uses Web 2.0... [Read More...]