Event Insight: New Operational Business Intelligence from SAP BusinessObjects

I’m still catching up from the SAP BusinessObjects user conference a few weeks ago. One of the sessions I attended was David Huber’s overview of operational business intelligence and the soon-to-be-launched SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight product. He started the session with the results of a recent CIO.com survey of Fortune 500 CIOs (CIO Technology Priorities July 2009), showing that “Business Process Management” and “Business Intelligence”... [Read More...]

Operational BI = Common Sense?

Spotted in a ComputerWorld/SAS Operational BI document called “BI @ the Speed of of Business”: “Mark Moorman, Advisor to the Office of the CTO at SAS… cites one government agency that was required to buy only low-grade lumber for construction projects. When a supplier offered to significantly discount a large stockpile of high-quality lumber in order to clear its warehouses, the agency had to turn him down, even though it meant... [Read More...]

2008: From Business Automation to Business Optimization?

However you define the goals of your organization–whether it’s about profit, or saving lives–it’s all about the quest for performance. Today, 9 out of 10 companies fail to execute their strategies[1]. That’s a sobering statistic–and an opportunity for IT organizations everywhere. According to Gartner[2], business intelligence and enterprise applications are the #1 and #2 top priorities for CIOs in... [Read More...]