Clear Intelligence Future Presentation Screencam
Here’s a recorded screencam version of the “Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic” presentation. You can download a pdf version here and the full PowerPoint file, including the Xcelsius dashboards here. You’ll probably want to put it into full screen mode to appreciate the demos…
How to Build a Billion-Dollar European Software Company
Photo: Bernard Liautaud in the mid-90s Courtesy of London Business School, here’s a great presentation by Bernard Liautaud, founder and eighteen-year CEO of BusinessObjects, explaining how he and his team created the first “European silicon valley startup”, growing the company from zero to a billion dollars in revenue, and then selling to SAP for $6.7bn. Bernard is now a General Partner of Balderton Capital, one of the largest venture capital... [Read More...]
SAP BusinessObjects Social Intelligence Prototype V2 Launches
The SAP BusinessObjects Social Network Analyzer came out last year, combining business intelligence with relationship data to create a “social intelligence” solution. It’s a prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center. It can combine information from HR systems, CRM systems, project databases, committee attendee lists, distribution lists, and any other other system that contains relationships between people. The new version will... [Read More...]
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...]
Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic
Please find below my presentation from today’s Gartner BI Summit EMEA in London. If you were there, thanks for attending, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! You can download a pdf version here and the full PowerPoint file, including the Xcelsius dashboards here. Update: You can see a screencam recording of this presentation here. Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter with automatic URL shortening! Read More →
Top BI Questions Blog Posts of 2009
January saw Obama’s inauguration, and a reflection on Bush’s analytic legacy, a discussion on whether “gut feelings” have any basis in science, a dashboard showing the best companies to work for in the US, and a quick demonstration that Malcom Gladwell was right. February’s posts discussed the power of having the right data, and that dashboards have been around for a long, long time, but if they have poor data... [Read More...]
Season’s Greetings with Xcelsius!
Here is a season’s greetings dashboard that shows off some of the latest features of Xcelsius 2008 SP3. Tweet the color you’d like to see in the garland. The dashboard updates every 30 seconds. How long Twitter search takes to recognize the tweet can be pretty variable – but most of the time, it’s less than a minute. How it works: I set up an Excel XML Connection that grabs a feed from Twitter using the search term “#twitterlights”. The... [Read More...]
What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 SP3?
Here’s a summary of some of the new things in the latest version of Xcelsius 2008. I’ve borrowed liberally from the official documentation that you can download, along with the program, here. New Components Sparkline chart components. The new Sparkline chart is based on the Sparkline chart created by Edward Tufte and provides a method for displaying a one-dimensional range of numeric data in a way that is dense, takes up a small space, and can... [Read More...]
Real Real-Time Analytics
Here’s a great video from this weeks SAP Influencer Summit featuring the advantages of real-time, in-memory analytics. You can see the full list of recorded keynote sessions here (registration required). If you’re interested in business intelligence and analytics, you’ll find it mentioned in the presentations by Jim Snabe, Vishal Sikka, Marge Breya and John Wookey. The sessions featured interaction with Twitter very heavily, using the... [Read More...]
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iPhone Now Available on Apple AppStore!
The iPhone version of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center was (finally!) released today on the Apple iStore, available as a free download Here’s the description of the application: “Your business at your fingertips” With Explorer for iPhone, insight into your business is never more than a few flicks away. Through simple keyword search, navigation and visualization, Explorer allows you to ask and answer... [Read More...]
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