SAP HANA: Why Wait?

An updated “real real-time” computing video about SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance). What are you waiting for? (Oh — maybe more details about what it actually is?! Coming soon…)  Read More →

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...]

Real Real-Time Analytics

Here’s a great video from this weeks SAP Influencer Summit featuring the advantages of real-time, in-memory analytics. You can see the full list of recorded keynote sessions here (registration required). If you’re interested in business intelligence and analytics, you’ll find it mentioned in the presentations by Jim Snabe, Vishal Sikka, Marge Breya and John Wookey. The sessions featured interaction with Twitter very heavily, using the... [Read More...]