AFSUG Business Intelligence Special Interest Group

I had the honor of presenting to the African SAP user group BI special interest group this week at the SAP South Africa offices in Woodmead, near Johannesburg. The session was very popular, with people having to be turned away because of lack of room. Folks in Cape Town and Durban joined the by teleconference — which meant we weren’t allowed to stray from the fixed microphone! My session was covered “BusinessAnalytics in 2011: The Great... [Read More...]

SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0 Make a BIG Splash

The New York stop of the SAP “Run Better Tour” hosted the launch of SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0 this week. Click here to view a recording of the event: Keynote with Steve Lucas, Dave Weisbeck and Geoffrey Moore. Industry reactions were extremely positive – here’s a selection of quotes and links to articles (many thanks to Nic Smith for this list) Community Reactions “There’s not much that hasn’t been unified, upgraded... [Read More...]

ITWeb BI Summit BI Competency Center Workshop

Here are the slides from today’s workshop on BI Competency Centers at the ITWeb BI summit in Johannesburg, in PowerPoint and pdf format.  Read More →

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and EIM 4.0 Key Themes

If you’re interested in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, you’ll find below the official key messages of today’s launch, which give a great summary of what’s important about the latest release, for customers with and without SAP ERP systems. Big data in real-time Real-time analytics powered by In-memory computing In-Memory Analytics (SAP HANA) – In-memory hardware appliance that is lightning fast on massively high-volumes of data. Enables business... [Read More...]

ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit 2011, Johannesburg

I’m presenting the keynote this morning at ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit 2011, in Johannesburg. Here’s a copy of my presentation, “The Big Leap Forward” in Adobe PDF (4Mb) and PowerPoint format (zipped, 13Mb) – I hope you enjoy it! And here are some photos from the event, on Flickr: Next... [Read More...]

Gartner BI Summit: A Big Leap Forward

I’m having a great time at the Gartner BI Summit in London this week. Here’s a link to the “Big Leap Forward” presentation I’ll be giving on Tuesday morning at 9:15am:  Read More →