Author: Timo Elliott
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Social Networking @ SAP: CubeTree
SAP has been testing a new on-demand social collaboration platform from CubeTree to facilitate internal networking, alongside other internal platforms such as Jive, CubeTree, and Atlassian.
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Augmented Business Intelligence Reality?
Dutch startup Layar is showing a glimpse of the future of mobile BI with augmented reality information browsing.
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A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by IBM Researcher Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for both on-demand and extranet business intelligence.
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Over 100 Free SAP BusinessObjects Web Seminars
Looking for some free training in these difficult economic times? Here’s a long, long list of free web seminars courtesy of the SDN BusinessObjects Web Seminar Series.
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The End of Relational Databases?
SAP’s co-founder believes that “disk has become yesterday’s tape” and that the era of relational databases is over, to be replaced by column storage for both data warehousing AND enterprise applications.
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Test Your Decision-Making Skills!
Think you’re good at making decisions? Take this simple challenge!
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Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency
Since the US has now appointed its first ever “Chief Performance Officer”, it seems like a great time to talk about other great examples of US government transparency and business intelligence.
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Social BI: Jive Chooses SAP’s On-Demand BI Platform
At the Enterprise 2.0 2009 event in Boston, Jive and SAP announced that Jive is going to be a reseller of SAP’s on-demand BI solutions, providing “social BI” to their customers. Here’s why BI is essential for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives.
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American Recovery Act Business Intelligence
Anybody that receives funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) must meet stringent legal reporting requirements, and aggregating all the information will require sophisticated information management. Greater government transparency through business intelligence may turn out to be the most challenging BI applications ever.
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End of a LucidEra?
On-demand BI vendor LucidEra was formed to “shake up the stagnant business intelligence industry”, but appears to be the latest victim of today’s difficulty economic climate.