Innovation Evangelism
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Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?
It’s not only organizations that struggle with errors due to manual spreadsheets — here’s a nice example from Slate and the State of Maryland.
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SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave
SAP Research’s new Gravity Prototype gives a glimpse of the collaboration-enabled business future. Using Google Wave, participants can easily model new business workflows in near-real time.
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PowerPoint Twitter Tools Update: Make Some Noise!
The PowerPoint Twitter Tools have been updated, with new features and an additional interactive tool, the PowerPoint Crowd Meter
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Integrating Live Twitter Streams into PowerPoint Using Xcelsius
Ever wanted to integrate Twitter streams into PowerPoint? Now you can, with some new prototypes built using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius…
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Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!
New Web 2.0 presentation tools give presenters the opportunity to view and react to twitter feeds in real-time, and let the audience vote on options via Twitter, without any extra screens or resources, based on SAP BusinessObjects’ Xcelsius dashboarding technology.
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How to Easily Analyze Your Excel Data in the Cloud
Now it’s even easier than ever to upload and analyze your Excel spreadsheets online, in the cloud, using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud. Read about the new features of the prototype!
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Interview with DecisionStats.com
Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com has a selection of great interviews with people in the BI/analytics space. Here’s an interview he did with me last week covering trends in predictive analytics, cloud computing, social network analysis, etc.
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BI FAIL #2
Business Intelligence Fail #2 — showing a chart that’s completely different from the data, on the site USAspending.gov
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How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
Performance metrics are a powerful tool of organizational change, but the wrong metrics can have unintended consequences. How should you choose KPIs and implement dashboards? TDWI explains.