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...]
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...]
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...]
Why In-Memory Computing Is Cheaper And Changes Everything
I attended a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year, as part of a ANZ/APJ innovation analytics tour. The meeting was hosted by Ryan Blackwood, Director of Strategy & Innovation for SAP Australia, and featured a talk by Donald Feinberg, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst on the “Nexus of Forces”: social, mobile, cloud and information. Here the first part of the notes I took from Donald’s presentation,... [Read More...]
Associative Analytics with SAP Visual Intelligence
One of the great, lesser-known features of SAP Visual Intelligence is its ability to let you easily do “associative analysis.” SAP Visual Intelligence’s behind-the-scenes associative data model keeps your data connected by relating associated data values together. For example, a database may contain information about video rentals, including titles, ratings, and locations. Since SAP Visual Intelligence automatically maintains the connections... [Read More...]
#GartnerBI and Big Data: Fear, Loathing, and Business Breakthroughs
At the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit in Barcelona, there was near universal agreement about three things to do with “big data” It’s an awful term (but we’re stuck with it) Whatever it means, it’s a big deal, and requires big changes to traditional information infrastructures It will result in big new business opportunities “Big Data” is a terrible term Gartner analyst Doug Laney first coined the term “big... [Read More...]
Analytics in Malaysia
The second leg of the SAP Analytics Innovation Tour of Asia and ANZ took place today in Kuala Lumpur. Again, more people came than were expected – to the extent that we had to take down one of the dividing walls of the room in order to accommodate more chairs! Regional Analytic Evangelist for SAP, Robin Fong, gave the opening welcome. I presented roughly the same keynote as the previous session in Manila. Then Charles Gadalla did a presentation... [Read More...]
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...]
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