Month: January 2013
-
What’s Missing? Game-Changing! Visualize That! You Get What You Pay For
What’s Missing From Your BI? This week? Two things: First, a real understanding of how people create and use information, according to a Harvard Business Review article entitled Why IT fumbles Analytics Second, Forrester analyst Boris Evelson says you should have BI on BI (SAP BusinessObjects supports the types of analysis cited, and Information Steward […]
-
Brain Scans Show No Difference in Pie Chart and Bar Chart Perception?
Which is better for communicating information: pie charts or bar charts? Tufts researchers throw doubt on a common data visualization belief.
-
Game-Changer
SAP HANA is changing the game…
-
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big News The big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA. The first major change to SAP’s applications since R3, it was called “ein game-changer” by press around the world. Ray Wang did a nice round-up in his post News Analysis: SAP Business […]
-
The Convergence of Analytic and Operational Processing is a Big Deal
40 years of conventional analytic is being overturned, with in-memory technology that allows analytic and operational processing on the same system.