SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and EIM 4.0 Key Themes
If you’re interested in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, you’ll find below the official key messages of today’s launch, which give a great summary of what’s important about the latest release, for customers with and without SAP ERP systems. Big data in real-time Real-time analytics powered by In-memory computing In-Memory Analytics (SAP HANA) – In-memory hardware appliance that is lightning fast on massively high-volumes of data. Enables business... [Read More...]
Business Analytics on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Earlier this week, I had a quick chance to use the new Samsung Galaxy Tab — the first serious tablet rival to the iPad — and check out its analytic / business intelligence capabilities. The device runs Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, so the first thing I tried was a couple of dashboards suitable for executives on the run, built using BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius). First, the same Formula 1 example that I previously... [Read More...]
UFO Tracker Dashboard and More!
Here’s a fun UFO Tracker Dashboard from the zany folks at Reportalooza.com, designed by Josh Tapley using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) technology. It’s just one of several on the site that are part of the “Guest Challenge”, including cigar analytics and an overview of UK football – be sure to check them all out and vote for the winner!
Demo Jam Analytics at SAP TechEd Berlin
The Demo Jam evening at SAP Tech Ed Berlin featured Craig Cmehil as host, a packed audience, and lots of analytics. You can see the full selection of demos on the Virtual TechEd site. Here’s a selection that used analytics as part of their demonstrations. First up were Gregor Wolfe and Phil Loewen, the winning team of the Berlin Innovation Weekend, with a project that was just 30 hours old, to help non-profits improve their marketing and donation... [Read More...]
Business Intelligence in Lisbon: IT Operations Dashboards
SAP Portugal put on a great business intelligence event last week at the Oriental Museum in Lisbon (just up the road from the Belém Tower shown in my photo above). The sold-out event featured a series of great presentations from customers and partners – and a long (long!) networking lunch. I was nursing a cold from the previous presentation in Zurich, but managed to get through the keynote presentation and journalist interviews before my voice... [Read More...]
Sailing Analytics for the SAP 5O5 World Championship
In business, we often talk about the difference between efficiency (“doing it right”) and effectiveness (“doing the right thing”). And in today’s fast-changing markets, there’s often a tradeoff involved, where if you optimize any particular measure in the short term you may suffer in the longer term (e.g. if you optimize profitability by not investing in new products). In sailing, as in business, there are many measures to take into account,... [Read More...]
An Introduction to the SAP 5O5 World Sailing Championships 2010
There seems to be a connection between enterprise software billionaires and sail racing. Larry prefers the bigger boats, while Hasso prefers getting wet: For Plattner, sailing two man dinghies and jumping off his 505 into chest-high water to prevent it from getting racked on the beach at Crissy Field is a far cry from having a professional crew guide a Farr 40 or his MaxZ yacht into a slip at Porto Cervo or another yachting Mecca. ‘The 505... [Read More...]
Antivia Xcelsius Business Intelligence Dashboard with Web Intelligence Drill
In an earlier post, I showed you can use BusinessObjects products like Xcelsius, Explorer on a mobile phone, and drill through to Web Intelligence running on the bi.ondemand.com BI-in-the-cloud platform. This post takes things one step further, with the help of SAP BusinessObjects partner Antivia. They have a great add-on solution called XWIS that makes it easier to access real-time Web Intelligence (soon to be called “Interactive Analysis”)... [Read More...]
Xcelsius Dashboards on Your Android Mobile Phone
The latest release of Android, v2.2 (“Froyo”) supports the Adobe flash technology used by Xcelsius (now called Dashboard Design) and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. So now you can access your dashboards, reports, and exploration spaces directly from your mobile device without requiring a separate application (e.g. as you do for the iPhone and iPad). It also means you can reuse all the effort you’ve put into developing Xcelsius dashboards and... [Read More...]
RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad
RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their brand-new version. First Impressions It’s as beautiful as its predecessor, and the new document formats available use the new expanded workspace... [Read More...]
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