Month: June 2009
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BI Is Indeed Counter-Cyclical: Market Shares
It’s official: according to Gartner, as reported by Mary Hayes Weier in Information Week, business intelligence is indeed counter-cyclical. Despite the tough economic climate, BI is growing at a healthy 22%, with SAP/Business Objects leading the pack.
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BusinessObjects TweetCloud
Go here to see who’s tweeting about BusinessObjects, and the key terms they’re talking about: http://tweetcloud.com/search/term/businessobjects. Oops — my username appears in the cloud! I guess I enjoy my work too much…
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SAP’s New CIO on The Power of Information
SAP announced today that Oliver Bussmann will be taking over as CIO. Bussmann is clearly a believer in the power of information, performance metrics, and measurement.
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What are SAP, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce.com doing with OpenSocial in the Enterprise?
At the recent Google I/O 2009 developer’s conference, SAP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com and Atlassian gave quick demonstrations of how they are leveraging social networking technologies such as OpenSocial within organizations.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer was recently launched at SAPPHIRE 2009 in Orlando. Here’s a long list of Explorer product, trial, customer, technical, and press links that I’m aware of so far.
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SAP BusinessObjects @ SAP World Tour, Paris
The SAP World Tour 2009 is underway and over 5,000 people signed up to attend the free event in Paris on June 2nd and 3rd with keynote presentations from Pascal Rialland, Luc Ferry, and others. SAP BusinessObjects products featured heavily at the show.
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Economist CIO and Technology Leaders Forum, London
The Economist Conferences’ CIO and Technology Leaders forum brought together CIOs from a diverse range of companies including Rentokil, Rolls-Royce, the Salvation Army, Tube Lines, BAA, and Aston Martin Lagonda to discuss how CIOs are coping with the current economic climate.
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Economist Research: Decision-Making in Turbulent Times
Technology is indeed the answer! Or at least, that’s what is suggested by a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit called “Staying the course? Technology decision-making in turbulent times”