SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Launch, Paris

The launch of BI 4.0 in Paris was one of the most interesting I’ve attended. It took place in the Salle Gaveau theatre in Paris on the afternoon of May 9th. In front of a packed crowd, journalist and editor Frédéric Simmottel of O1 Informatique welcomed everybody to the event. He invited Laurent Leenhardt, director of Business Analytics in France, up on stage to discuss the agenda and outline the main themes of the show. Next came a round-table... [Read More...]

SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0 Make a BIG Splash

The New York stop of the SAP “Run Better Tour” hosted the launch of SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0 this week. Click here to view a recording of the event: Keynote with Steve Lucas, Dave Weisbeck and Geoffrey Moore. Industry reactions were extremely positive – here’s a selection of quotes and links to articles (many thanks to Nic Smith for this list) Community Reactions “There’s not much that hasn’t been unified, upgraded... [Read More...]

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’s First Official iPhone Application

Not What You Might Think No, SAP’s first official iPhone application is NOT the BusinessObjects Explorer iPhone Application that Marge Breya demonstrated during the keynote of SAP TechEd Vienna, and which Alexis Naibo of the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center used to win the Demo Jam contest. That application isn’t quite yet available on iTunes (but will be shortly). For more information about this forthcoming application, check out the demonstration... [Read More...]

Time for Voice of the Customer?

Fern Halper of Hurwitz recently published a blog entry on some BI survey results, showing that: Perhaps surprisingly, over 30% were already using text analytics The highest usages were for “voice of customer” and “competitive intelligence”   Also of interest was the ranking of BI technologies in order of importance — Query and Reporting 1st, OLAP Data Cubes last. I believe there’s an opportunity there,... [Read More...]

Adding Text and Search to BI — Are Customers Ready?

Business Objects turns Inxight into insight: following the purchase of text analytics leader Inxight, Business Objects launched two new products today: “Text Analysis” and “Intelligent Search“ Here’s my take: The integration process has been excellent — the new products are out just four months after the acquisition was announced. The products are integrated, not just rebadged. For example, existing WebIntelligence... [Read More...]

Structured, Unstructured and Pureplay BI

Business Objects closed its Inxight acquisition earlier this week. Structured and unstructured analysis coming together makes it harder to claim that any single database or application standard stores all of the data that needs to be analyzed.   Read More →

Business Objects Gets Greater Inxight

At the European Insight User Conference, Business Objects just announced the purchase of Inxight, a text analytics company. (Welcome!) Inxight Founder Ian Hersey and Marge Breya, CMO of Business Objects, announcing the intention to purchase, on stage at the European Insight User Conference in Berlin. The worlds of structured and unstructured analysis are (finally) coming together in tangible ways. Inxight has powerful text analysis algorithms... [Read More...]