Turkey is investing heavily in business intelligence. It was  SAP’s 2nd-fastest growing region worldwide last year. Nine out of the top 10 Turkish banks use BusinessObjects, and 3 out of the top 4 telecom companies.

I presented the keynote presentation at the SAP BusinessObjects BI Forum in Istanbul this morning, on the theme “The Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic”. It covers the current trends in the analytics market, and shows off SAP BusinessObjects products and prototypes that optimize these trends.

It’s a slightly updated version of a presentation previously posted on the blog. To download the presentation in PowerPoint format, including two of the demonstrations (Explorer and Social Network Analyzer) and the Xcelsius dashboard files used, click here (28Mb).

SAP customer presentations included Turkish Telecom and their Governance, Risk, and Compliance implementation and a local hospital’s implementation of BusinessObjects Edge Professional. 

Here’s the custom Xcelsius dashboard (click anywhere on the picture to take off the cover, then click “unlock” to use the controls):

[update/disclaimer: this post generated some interest, so there's one thing I should make clearer: the intent of this dashboard was to provide light relief in the presentation, using local data. It absolutely does not represent best practice dashboard design. For that, I recommend the excellent books by Wayne Eckerson and Stephen Few, and you can see Stephen's blog for discussions about whether it is appropriate for vendors to show this type of eye-candy]

And here are the slides

Night photo in top banner: Timo Elliott.