Some Examples of How to Use Streamwork, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application

[post updated to reflect new name, StreamWork]. SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative decision-making brings together: People – Get everyone on the same page Information – Share documents and data all in plain view Methods... [Read More...]

Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making

Gartner has published their take on the new Collaborative Decision Making market (CDM) This report predicts a new style of decision support system — collaborative decision making (CDM) — will emerge in 2009 that combines social software with business intelligence (BI). This combination can dramatically improve the quality of decision making by directly linking the information contained in BI systems with collaborative input gleaned through the... [Read More...]

A New Decision Engine: Hunch, and Guided Analysis for the Enterprise

A new “Decision Engine” called Hunch was launched today. How might this type of technology relate to collaborative decision-making in enterprises? Hunch’s tagline is “Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.” From the web site: What is Hunch? Hunch is a new way to help people make all kinds of decisions, such as: Where should I go on vacation? What’s the best US college for me? What kind of smartphone... [Read More...]