Month: October 2007
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Concrete Steps to Performance Excellence: Insight 07 Donald MacCormick Keynote
At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Transformation Officer Donald MacCormick presented on the concrete steps organizations can take to achieve Performance Excellence.
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Collective Intelligence: Insight 07 Marge Breya Keynote
At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Marketing Officer Marge Breya presented on the five Cs of intelligence: Content, Context, Collaboration, Community, Collective.
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Insight 07 Mark Doll Keynote
At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando yesterday, Mark Doll, Senior VP and General Manager of Services and EPM covered the need to bridge the gap between finance and IT teams with enterprise performance management systems, assisted by Trevor Walker, VP of EPM product marketing. (photos and presentation)
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Insight 07 Bernard Liautaud Keynote
It’s the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference in Orlando. Bernard Liautaud’s keynote covered the future of “full-spectrum Business Intelligence”, including the launches of Crystal Reports 2008 and the new BusinessObjects Polestar products. (Photos and presentation…)
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Insight 07 John Schwarz Keynote
At the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference this morning, John Schwarz presented the importance of Performance Excellence across the organization, illustrated with examples from AT&T, Columbia Valley Health, and Disneyland Paris. (Photos and presentation…)
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SAP Business Objects Press Conference
Slides and Q&A from the SAP/Business Objects web cast
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SAP and Business Objects
It hasn’t always been easy to access data from SAP systems: the Business Objects acquisition will help… (cartoon)
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So: it’s SAP, for $6.8bn!
After years of rumors, the news is finally here: it’s SAP for 4.8 billion euros. This will be the biggest acquisition SAP has ever done, and the biggest in the BI industry — but in a twist, it’s almost as if Business Objects is acquiring OutlookSoft and Pilot… (more…)
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Crossing the Chasm: Delivering a Strategic, Enterprise BI System
The third and final web seminar presentation on BI maturity that I did last week with Wayne Eckerson: how to make BI a strategic asset for the organization: “crossing the chasm”. What’s next? The BI “canyon” separating information from strategy… (more…)
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Spanning the Gulf: Getting Traction for Your BI Solution
Here’s a presentation Wayne Eckerson and I did last week as part of the series on BI maturity, and a link to the recording.