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L’Oréal: Turning Data Into A Customer Experience
George-Edouard Dias, head of Digital Business for L’Oréal gave a great example of digital business transformation during his interview at SAPPHIRENOW Madrid at the end of last year. By combining analytics, social, mobile, and the cloud, the company aims to create new customer experiences. Summary L’Oréal’s big transformation is to have moved from marketing planned in advance to real-time marketing. The company wants to simplify the life... [Read More...]
Exploring The New World
A quick post about a feature that many people don’t seem to know about. Do you have a mobile sales force, and you want their iPhones/iPads to recognize where they are, and provide them detailed information about the customer they’re just about to visit? Yes, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Mobile lets you do that, with integrated maps and augmented reality It’s a brave new big-data world out there – and tools like Explorer mobile let you... [Read More...]
SAP and the ‘Nexus of Forces’
A perfect storm is developing, according to research firm Gartner. Four hugely disruptive technology trends are converging, bringing change and opportunity to the way businesses operate, and restructuring the IT industry as a whole. Gartner calls this the “Nexus of Forces”. It sounds like a old-style superhero, but it actually refers to four distinct yet increasingly intertwined technological trends: social, mobile, cloud computing and information: Social.... [Read More...]
Making A Mobile HTML5 Dashboard: Follow-Up Q&A
In my previous post, I showed a dashboard that I created with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, exported to HTML5, and viewed through SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. I thought I’d do a follow-up in Q&A format (none of these questions were asked by real people, but please feel free to ask your own questions in the comment section below!). Before reading, if you haven’t already done so, you should take a look at the post by Tammy Powlas, Mobilizing... [Read More...]
Mobile Analytic Dashboards
Analytics and Mobile were made for each other! Here are the key statistics, at your fingertips: (The dashboard was created in SAP Dashboards, exported as HTML, and displayed in the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile application) Share and Enjoy Read More →
SAP Announces New EPM OnDemand at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference
It’s time for one of my favorite conferences of the year, the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, Florida. I’ve been attending BusinessObjects user conferences ever since they have existed, and it’s a wonderful opportunity for me to catch up with old friends and meet new customers that are using analytics to make a difference in the business. The day kicked off with Bridgette Chambers, CEO of Americas’ SAP User Group... [Read More...]
Confusing BYOD with BYOB (Cartoon)
OK, so this is a little lame, but here goes… (BYOD = Bring Your Own Device. BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle.) Share and Enjoy Read More →
Concrete Examples of How Health Intelligence Saves Lives
An excellent article in Health Data Management by Greg Gillespie gives some wonderful examples of the power of analytics to improve health outcomes, looking at data from some of the 2,000+ clinical trials that Cleveland Clinic is currently running. I strongly encourage you to read the original article (also available in pdf format), but here are summaries of the three use cases highlighted: hand-washing analytics, central-line analytics, and blood-transfusion... [Read More...]
What Mobile BI Used To Look Like, And Where It’s Going (Back to the Future!)
Note, this is an adapted, extended version of my post on the SAP Analytics Blog. Mobile BI has been around for a long time. Starting in the late-1990s, the first SMS-enabled telephones became mainstream in Europe, with basic broadcasting of the latest figures available in your BI system (or email, fax, pager, etc.). By the end of the decade, the first telephones with WAP browsers were used to provide interactive BI, quickly followed by connected PDAs... [Read More...]
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