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New SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center
SAP BusinessObjects has just launched a new Innovation Center, taking over from the the existing BusinessObjects Labs at http://labs.businessobjects.com. The Innovation Center is modeled after Google Labs. It showcases new software prototypes based on concepts and ideas from customers, partners, and internal teams. Anybody is free to download and try them, but they are not…
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Modern Performance Appraisals (Cartoon)
What do you mean you don’t know what I’ve been up to recently?! Just Google me!
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BI on the Bosphorus
Presentation and dashboard from an SAP BusinessObjects day in Istanbul, Turkey
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Breaking Up (Cartoon)
A business intelligence cartoon: It’s not you. It’s your data.
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Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?
I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help reposting some of it in the light of recent events. All those financial wizards were making a fortune based on the money they were “creating” — money that has since turned out to be largely fictitious. Top hedge fund managers were earning more…
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BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)
Cartoon: a BI incompetency center in action
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Making Tough Decisions
There’s increasing agreement that business intelligence and performance management technology has to go further than “just” data, analysis, and planning, to helping with the intrinsically human process of making decisions. Today, most corporate decision-making happens in meetings and conference calls, with little support from technology. As a process, it functions, but most of us would…
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SAP Dashboards at Microsoft?
According to the Treasury & Risk site, Microsoft is a keen user of SAP dashboards, at least in conjunction with their treasury needs
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BI in Bahrain
here was lots of interest in the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of solutions at the SUG-MENA event in Bahrain. See the Xcelsius dashboard using local data, and the presentation I gave.