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 tools for brainstorming,... [Read More...]
Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?
There was a great story in Slate yesterday called “Errors in Judgment — Were hundreds of criminals given the wrong sentences because lawyers messed up a basic work sheet?”. The background: the state of Maryland established a worksheet that graded the severity of a convict’s crime and his risk to society, and was intended to make sentencing more consistent and the administration of justice a little less arbitrary. The problem? And... [Read More...]
Implementing Business Intelligence Standards: Save Money and Improve Business Insight
At the end of last year, I wrote a white paper on implementing business intelligence standards – here’s a blog post that adapts the context (the full white paper is available as a download at the bottom of the post) Executive Summary: Business Intelligence, Essential in a Tough Economic Climate Citing business intelligence (BI) as a strategic technology, analyst firm Gartner observes, “BI can have a direct positive impact on a company’s business... [Read More...]
Augmented Business Intelligence Reality?
Following a tweet from James Governor, AKA @monkchips, and a post from Tom Raftery, I’ve just seen a slice of the future of mobile business intelligence. A Dutch startup called Layar is providing mobile augmented reality for Android-based phones, based on the phone’s GPS and internal compass. You just use the phone’s camera, choose a “layar” of information (house prices, local jobs, nightclubs, etc.), point it anywhere you like, and it... [Read More...]
Over 100 Free SAP BusinessObjects Web Seminars
Looking for some free training in these difficult economic times? Here’s a long, long list (OK, so there are “only” 96 of them) of free web seminars courtesy of the SDN BusinessObjects Web Seminar Series and Jason Cao. They cover almost every aspect of the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can register to be notified by email of upcoming BusinessObjects webinars and suggest topics... [Read More...]
Test Your Decision-Making Skills!
I sometimes sit in a café called “La Terrace” near my home in Paris. It’s next to the Metro stop Ecole Militaire, which is one of the closest stops to the Eiffel Tower. So each time I have my coffee and croissant, some of the 7 million or so visitors to the tower each year come out of the metro and consult this map of the 7th Arrondissement to try to help them figure out which way to go. Here’s a close up – the Eiffel Tower is at the top... [Read More...]
Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency
We’re clearly entering a new era in government transparency, and we can hope that allowing citizens to access information interactively through business intelligence functionality to spot inefficiencies and opportunities will be a big part of transforming the way the public sector works. In my previous post, I talked about how the American Recovery and Reinvestment act is perhaps the largest, most complex business intelligence application ever.... [Read More...]
A New Decision Engine: Hunch, and Guided Analysis for the Enterprise
A new “Decision Engine” called Hunch was launched today. How might this type of technology relate to collaborative decision-making in enterprises? Hunch’s tagline is “Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.” From the web site: What is Hunch? Hunch is a new way to help people make all kinds of decisions, such as: Where should I go on vacation? What’s the best US college for me? What kind of smartphone... [Read More...]
The Convergence of Business Intelligence, EPM, and GRC
According to Albert Pang of IDC, the current economic conditions are forcing organizations to not only better manage corporate performance but also increase business transparency: companies are under increasing pressure to conduct operations effectively, profitably, and ethically — and prove it. To achieve this, IDC advises companies to integrate EPM, GRC, and business analytics. The IDC paper, Helping Enterprises Succeed: Responsible Corporate... [Read More...]
Mastering BusinessObjects Conference, Sydney Australia
The Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference was held in Manly, Sydney this week. The location was stunning – Australia has some of the best beaches in the world, and thanks to Pete Collett, who lent me a surfboard, I was able to catch a few waves at day break before heading back into the waterfront conference hotel to deliver my keynote presentations. The two-day event had a packed agenda, including great keynotes from Dave Rathbun of Integra... [Read More...]
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