BI in Barcelona, Scary Big Data, Cool 3D Analytics and More
Another analytics round up – what’s going on in the analytics world this week? Gartner BI and Analytics Summit: Nos Vemos en Barcelona! A host of SAP Analytics folks will be in Barcelona next week for the Gartner BI and Analytics Summit. Jason Rose will be presenting with Mark Cooper of British American Tobacco on Tuesday 5th February at 12:50-13:10: SAP: The New Analytical Agenda: Innovate, Compete, and Connect Practical... [Read More...]
What’s Missing? Game-Changing! Visualize That! You Get What You Pay For
What’s Missing From Your BI? This week? Two things: First, a real understanding of how people create and use information, according to a Harvard Business Review article entitled Why IT fumbles Analytics Second, Forrester analyst Boris Evelson says you should have BI on BI (SAP BusinessObjects supports the types of analysis cited, and Information Steward is a dedicated product for data governance) Just Don’t Call It A Game Changer As Jaspersoft... [Read More...]
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big News The big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA. The first major change to SAP’s applications since R3, it was called “ein game-changer” by press around the world. Ray Wang did a nice round-up in his post News Analysis: SAP Business Suite on HANA, and John Appleby declared 2013 the Year of the SAP Database. As usual, some folks demanded “where are the real-life customers and... [Read More...]
Marketing People in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
InformationWeek Executive Editor Doug Henschen takes Oracle to task for having the gall to criticize his article about Microsoft’s new in-memory solution while being less than candid about their own in-memory solution: Oracle Spotlights Its Database Memory Gap. The result of Oracle’s action is an article that explains in detail the gap between Oracle’s marketing rhetoric and the reality of their solution: Oracle senior communications VP... [Read More...]
Beware What You Call Gambling
A lot of the literature about performance management likes to assume that the world is a perfectly ordered place, that the right actions will result in increased performance, and that bad performance indicates there’s a problem. But the real world is a place where sheer randomness has big effects, and is especially prevalent hanything to do with the actions of fickle human beings. Some recent news provides an instructive insight about the role... [Read More...]
Bad BI Marketing
I received this as a comment on one of my posts: “Although every enterprise is definitely unique, they all share the common challenge of keeping up-to-date with the ever-increasing speed of business. Today, most companies must operate on tight budgets, improved efficiencies, and an ever-changing marketplace. An enterprise’s ability to compete is directly linked to its ability to respond. With the above in mind, Operational Intelligence is... [Read More...]
Ignoring Facts and Hoping for a Miracle Cure
PowerBalance, provider of trendy bracelets that are “designed to work with your body’s natural energy field”, have admitted that there’s “no credible scientific evidence that supports [their] claims and therefore [they] engaged in misleading conduct.” Duh! Evolution has apparently hard-wired us to LIKE superstition. We don’t want to live in a world without magic cures and horoscopes that guide our destiny. And it clearly applies to... [Read More...]
Twitter Adds Analytics
Via Mashable, here are a couple of the screenshots of the upcoming free analytics for Twitter users. Read More →
The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process
It’s that time of year again, and I just happened to stumble across this wonderful post by Dave Kellogg from a year ago, and it’s still the best post on corporate budgeting I’ve think I’ve read: The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process Here are some tools to help you do it better (but the problem is never technology). And yes, I’m “Joe” :-) Share and Enjoy ... [Read More...]
Expanding BI One Department at a Time
Shawn Lester has written a nice post on Analytics » Expanding BI One Department at a Time on the SAP Analytics Blog, including a handy list of business pains that you might consider as part of needs analysis: Executive KPIs: What is top of mind for the executives? Often this may fall into some type of dashboarding and process like six sigma or balanced scorecard Extranet Initiative: Is there a need to share information with customers or collaborate... [Read More...]
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