Photo Essay: Analytics at SAPPHIRE NOW Part 2
This is Part 2 of my analytics review of SAPPHIRE NOW (go here for part 1) . Where available, I’ve added links to watch the relevant presentations yourself at SAPPHIRENOW.COM (the presentations are being loaded up over the next couple of weeks, so if there’s no link, do a search on the site in case it has been added since I posted this). Early morning on Tuesday 14th May 2013, Day 1 of SAPPHIRE NOW. Since I was on the wrong time zone, I was up... [Read More...]
Photo Essay Part 1: Analytics at SAPPHIRE NOW Pre-Show
It was a hectic SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando last week! In this series of posts, I’d like to give you a flavor of what it’s like to attend the event from an analytics point of view — and I’ve included links to some of the great analytics content that came out of the show. Here’s part one: the run up to the show… I was a “social media ambassador” for analytics for the conference – my job was to keep track of everything about... [Read More...]
Customized Voice of The Customer Analytics using SAP HANA
At SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG 2013, Mantis Technology Group CEO Doug Turner and Senior Consultant Jim Egan gave a presentation explaining how they provide their customers with sophisticated, customizable “voice of the customer” solutions, based on SAP’s powerful text analysis technology. Their product, Mantis Pulse Analytics, uses a combination of SAP BusinessObjects technologies to gather information from social feeds, analyze sentiment, and combine... [Read More...]
SAPPHIRE NOW: The Human Face of Big Data
SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando was packed with examples of how Big Data affects all our lives. SAP Executive Steve Lucas was the host of an Intel-sponsored Big Data special interest group meeting at the conference. He kicked off the session by explaining that he considers himself to be an example of the human face of new data technologies. As a type 1 Diabetic, he wears a device that measures his blood sugar once a second, and communicates it to a hand-held... [Read More...]
New SAP Lumira: See The Light
As announced last Friday, SAP Visual Intelligence has been renamed to SAP Lumira (you can find the announcement and full FAQ here) Why Did We Change Another Perfectly Good BI Product Name? We know that this decision is likely to be met by some eye-rolling from our faithful customers who are still recovering from previous name changes. The bottom line: we know that there are downsides to such a change, and despite the inevitable disruption it may... [Read More...]
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Release to Customers
Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013. What’s New in BI 4.1 BI 4.1 is one suite for all insight, one place for all information and on standard for enterprise BI. Here are the highlights of the new release – or you can skip to the end of the post to get a detailed technical presentation of the new features. The features in this latest... [Read More...]
The Top 10 Trends In Analytics 2013
I’ve been passionate about analytics for over twenty years – but my head is still spinning with the amount of change currently going on in the analytics industry. Here’s my quick personal view of the ten top trends in Business Intelligence and Analytics for 2013 — what did I miss? [Note that a version of this post originally appeared on the SAPPHIRE NOW area of the SAP Community Network] 1. Analytics And Business Intelligence... [Read More...]
Why You Need An In-Memory Action Plan
This is a third post of a series based on a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year with speaker Donald Feinberg, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst explaining the “Nexus of Forces”: social, mobile, cloud and information. In the first two posts, Donald covered why in-memory is disrupting everything, and why every organization will be running in-memory in 15 to 20 years time, and the business impacts of the new in-memory... [Read More...]
L’Oréal: Turning Data Into A Customer Experience
George-Edouard Dias, head of Digital Business for L’Oréal gave a great example of digital business transformation during his interview at SAPPHIRENOW Madrid at the end of last year. By combining analytics, social, mobile, and the cloud, the company aims to create new customer experiences. Summary L’Oréal’s big transformation is to have moved from marketing planned in advance to real-time marketing. The company wants to simplify the life... [Read More...]
The Business Impact of In-Memory Computing, From Run to Transform
This is the second post based on a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year, as part of a ANZ/APJ innovation analytics tour, with speaker Donald Feinberg, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst explaining the “Nexus of Forces”: social, mobile, cloud and information. After covering why in-memory is disrupting everything, and why every organization will be running in-memory in 15 to 20 years time, In this post, Donald... [Read More...]
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