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...]