Twitter and Text Analysis to Help You Surf Through Traffic

The first official SAP iPhone application is already available on iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s probably not much use to you unless you happen to be reading this in Brisbane, Australia. But the free application, created by the folks in the SAP Research center who brought you the Google Wave / SAP “Gravity” prototype, is a wonderful example of what Web 2.0 technology can do in today’s increasingly wired world. Here’s the blurb from the... [Read More...]

SAP BusinessObjects @ SAP World Tour, Paris

  The SAP World Tour 2009 is underway and over 5,000 people signed up to attend the free event in Paris on June 2nd and 3rd at the Porte de Versailles Expo, with keynote presentations from the Directeur Générale of SAP France, Pascal Rialland and Luc Ferry, former French Education Minister – and Philosopher (France is one of the only countries where people can call themselves philosophers and still wield real influence!) The SAP BusinessObjects... [Read More...]

Social Networking Analytics

SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a great new prototype called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data, using business intelligence techniques to display and discover organizational relationships There have already been lots of products available to visualize public social networks such as Twitter. But up until now, there hasn’t been any technology designed from scratch to let people analyze corporate... [Read More...]

New SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center

SAP BusinessObjects has just launched a new Innovation Center, taking over from the the existing BusinessObjects Labs at http://labs.businessobjects.com. The Innovation Center is modeled after Google Labs. It showcases new software prototypes based on concepts and ideas from customers, partners, and internal teams. Anybody is free to download and try them, but they are not supported for production environments. Feedback is encouraged, and used to... [Read More...]