SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Directions
Here’s a video from this years SAPPHIRE NOW in Madrid, featuring Mimi Speir, Steve Lucas, and Andrew Murray giving an overview of SAP BusinessObjects mobile directions: Highlights include: New SAP BusinessObjects experience mobile application, based on the Exploration Views functionality from the BusinessObjects innovation center, with demo data from Experience.SAP.com Easily take a mobile analysis and create a StreamWork activity for collaborative... [Read More...]
Big Leap Forward: Analytics Keynote at UK & Ireland SAP User Group Conference 2011
I was honored to speak at this years UK & Ireland SAP User Group Conference held in Birmingham, UK. The first main day saw great keynotes from the new SAP UK Managing Director, Steve Winter; Analyst Ray Wang; SAP’s CIO, Oliver Bussmann; and Olympic Sprinter Steve Cram. You can read a full review by Christoph Ziedler on SAP.info, and see the various videos on YouTube starting with the introduction by Alan Bowling, Chairman of UKISUG. Here’s... [Read More...]
Why In-Memory Analytics is Like Digital Photography: An Industry Transformation
When was the last time you had a roll of film developed? If you’re reading this, you’re no technology luddite, so it was probably already many years ago. Film – a technology that had been slowly improved and perfected over 200 years – was replaced in less than a decade by a much faster, cheaper, and more convenient technology approach. In an earlier post, I outlined why I think we’re on the brink of a real revolution in business analytics... [Read More...]
Hadoop, Big Data, and Enterprise Business Intelligence
Many thanks to William Gardella and others for the content below: Traditional enterprise data warehousing and Hadoop/Big Data are like apples and oranges – the well-known and trusted approach being challenged by a zesty newcomer (sweet oranges were introduced to Europe sometime in the 16th century). Is there room for both? How will these two very different approaches co-exist? This post is an attempt to summarize the current state of play with... [Read More...]
Mobile BI Isn’t Only About Mobile
It’s an unspoken assumption that mobile BI extends normal BI: almost all the coverage so far emphasizes the usefulness of these devices for people out of the office: on the road, or on the factory floor – and it’s hard not to agree that there is a great opportunity to bring business intelligence to new classes of users. In particular, executives spend their lives running around visiting different departments and divisions, asking people to... [Read More...]
SAP Social Intelligence Now Available in SAP StreamWork
SAP Social Intelligence, born as the social network analytics prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects innovation center (now SAP Research Prototypes), is now fully launched and available as an integral part of the SAP StreamWork collaborative decision solution. With so much going on with various launches including BusinessObjects version 4.0 and HANA, you may have missed the launch of the Enterprise Edition of StreamWork, but it was a key step for... [Read More...]
Why The Last Decade of BI Best-Practice Architecture is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete
Business analytics, or solving business problems through better use of data, is absolutely nothing new. But every decade or so new technology takes a big leap forward (client/server, web, etc.) and makes previous architectures obsolete. The next big wave of business analytics infrastructure is poised to start arriving this year. Let’s take a look at an analogy from the history of computing. The first ever computer used for commercial business applications... [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 →
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 →
Event Insight: New Operational Business Intelligence from SAP BusinessObjects
I’m still catching up from the SAP BusinessObjects user conference a few weeks ago. One of the sessions I attended was David Huber’s overview of operational business intelligence and the soon-to-be-launched SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight product. He started the session with the results of a recent CIO.com survey of Fortune 500 CIOs (CIO Technology Priorities July 2009), showing that “Business Process Management” and “Business Intelligence”... [Read More...]
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