ANZ SAP Innovation Forums and BI Briefings Tour

I am looking forward to nine days, two countries, six cities, and 10 presentations as part of the 2012 Australia and New Zealand SAP Innovation Forum and BI Briefings Tour – I hope to see you there! SAP Innovation Forums I’ll be doing the opening SAP keynote and analytics presentations, packed with examples of customers doing business “like never before”. Search for #SAPForum on Twitter to follow what’s going on. Dates: Brisbane... [Read More...]

Confusing BYOD with BYOB (Cartoon)

OK, so this is a little lame, but here goes…   (BYOD = Bring Your Own Device. BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle.) Share and Enjoy  Read More →

SAP Visual Intelligence

SAP Visual Intelligence 1.0 (internal project name “Hilo”) will generally available tomorrow*. It is the latest innovation in the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer solution family. It is a desktop-based visualization and data manipulation solution that is designed to complement (not replace) the existing Explorer products. After downloading and installing the application (approximately 150 MB), users can connect to SAP HANA sources and start data... [Read More...]

Are You Ready For SAP’s Big Data Processing Framework?

Steve Lucas, EVP of Database and Technology, unveiled SAP’s Big Data Processing Framework at the keynote session of SAP Insider BI2012 in Orlando earlier this year. I was honored to have the opportunity to be on stage with Steve for the first time, and we were ably assisted by Fred Samson. In the recorded session below, we discuss what “big data” means, why you should care, and how SAP is making it easy to Ingest, Store, Process, and Present... [Read More...]

BI Past, Present, Future — Interview with TEC

Note: the following post is republished with permission from Technology Evaluation Center’s excellent blog. It is a part of a series of interviews by Jorge Garcia on trends in the analytic industry.   It is hard to imagine that organizations like SAP or former Business Objects (BO)—now a division of SAP—were once start-up companies. Nowadays on the business intelligence (BI) scene it’s almost impossible to avoid BusinessObjects. Like... [Read More...]

Game Changer

Share and Enjoy  Read More →