Top BI Events in 2010, Top BI Trends in 2011
Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com has posted my email interview on Business Intelligence trends – you can read a copy below. What do you think I missed? Ajay: “What are the top 5 events in Business Integration and Data Visualization services you saw in 2010 and what are the top three trends you see in these in 2011.” Top five events in 2010: (1) Back to strong market growth. IT spending plummeted last year (business intelligence continued to grow,... [Read More...]
IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow Warsaw 2010
As promised, here’s my keynote presentation from the IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow in Warsaw, in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format, or in zipped PowerPoint format. I often mention in my presentations that “120% of us don’t understand statistics” – and here’s the proof: somebody marked my presentation as 7 out of 5 for content and style: (many thanks, whoever you are!) Read More →
Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Earlier this week, I had a quick chance to use the new Samsung Galaxy Tab — the first serious tablet rival to the iPad — and check out its analytic / business intelligence capabilities. The device runs Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, so the first thing I tried was a couple of dashboards suitable for executives on the run, built using BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius). First, the same Formula 1 example that I previously... [Read More...]
Twitter Adds Analytics
Via Mashable, here are a couple of the screenshots of the upcoming free analytics for Twitter users. Read More →
The Intelligence Future Webcast
I’m doing a webcast today (Tuesday November 16th) on “The Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic” – here’s the abstract: Ever since the first abacus, information technology has been an essential part of delivering timely information, staying accountable to stakeholders, reducing inefficiencies, and maintaining flexibility when faced with fast-changing environments. But for the first time in history, consumer-technology... [Read More...]
BI OnDemand Wins Best of SaaS Award
Founder of the SaaS Showplace web site, THINKstrategies has an award program to recognize SaaS companies who are delivering solutions which produce measurable business benefits for their customers, including increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability. SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has just been named the latest winner of the award: SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand is an intuitive, turnkey... [Read More...]
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iPad is "Essential for Work"
PC World has published a list of the “Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work”, including SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iPad: If your company uses SAP to record business information, you need SAP Business Objects Explorer on your iPad. Instead of having to scroll through numerous sheets of numbers, you can view the data visually, or in nicely bundled data sets. The next time you visit a customer, whip out your iPad, and you can answer any off-the-cuff... [Read More...]
BlogWell 2010: SAP's Social Media Strategy
[Post adapted from an article written by Jerry Janda] On Tuesday, November 9, SAP hosted an event for social media in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. A sold-out crowd of corporate social media leaders packed the auditorium for “BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media.” The BlogWell conference featured eight case studies on the best social media programs at large corporations. GasPedal, a consulting company specializing in “word-of-mouth”... [Read More...]
UFO Tracker Dashboard and More!
Here’s a fun UFO Tracker Dashboard from the zany folks at Reportalooza.com, designed by Josh Tapley using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) technology. It’s just one of several on the site that are part of the “Guest Challenge”, including cigar analytics and an overview of UK football – be sure to check them all out and vote for the winner!
The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process
It’s that time of year again, and I just happened to stumble across this wonderful post by Dave Kellogg from a year ago, and it’s still the best post on corporate budgeting I’ve think I’ve read: The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process Here are some tools to help you do it better (but the problem is never technology). And yes, I’m “Joe” :-) Read More →
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