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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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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”
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The Inevitable Wolfram|Alpha Problem: Semantics
Wolfram|Alpha has now been launched, and inevitably suffers from the same problems that have plagued every attempt to provide answers to human questions using technology since the dawn of computers: semantics, and specifically meaning and syntax. Solving these problems in organizations will remain a challenge for years to come, but the rewards can be considerable…
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Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today
Wikipedia defines Web 3.0 as the “semantic web”, “making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.” We’ll get a step closer to that vision when Wolfram|Alpha (or maybe just “WolframAlpha” – their web site uses both) launches later today. Wolfram|Alpha is…
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Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!
As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out the product and learn how microfinance is helping reduce global poverty by visiting the excellent SAP BusinessObjects Explorer demo at http://microfinance.sap.com. It will challenge you to find answers to a few questions, and you’ll be…
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A New Data Architecture for Faster, Better BI: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Today at the SAPPHIRE user conference in Orlando, SAP announced it would “revolutionize BI with a new solution that delivers insight at the speed of thought”. The new package is called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated, and it combines the search and visualization capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Polestar (now renamed SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) with SAP Business…
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SAP BusinessObjects @ SAPPHIRE US ‘09
It’s SAPPHIRE 09 in Orlando next week — here are some links to connect you to SAP BusinessObjects resources at and around the show.