Innovation Evangelism
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One KPI Is Never Enough to Manage… A Country?
BI Brief: A single KPI isn’t good enough to measure company success. Should we be using profits to measure corporate success?
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BI FAIL #1
BI FAILs, examples of dysfunctional behavior and problems gathered from conversations with companies implementing business intelligence projects. Certain details (may) have been changed to protect the guilty.
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Integrating SAP and Google Wave, And The Context-Based Future of Business User Applications
The first examples showing integration between Google Wave and SAP Enterprise Services are starting to appear. They are just a glimpse of the future of business user applications.
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Grand Prix Business Intelligence
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a corporate event at the Belgian Grand Prix, and present an SAP BusinessObjects product overview and roadmap.
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Who Cares About BI and Performance Management Market Share?
IDC recently released several reports on business analytics market shares, including business intelligence and performance management. Should anybody other than the vendors care? Why?
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Exciting, Risky Business Intelligence in South Africa
Last week saw the inaugural meetings of the BI special interest group of the Africa SAP User’s Group (AFSUG) in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. Here’s an overview of the presentations and feedback.
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John Schwarz on SAP BusinessObjects Plans and Priorities
Coverage of John Schwarz’ conversations at a Fortune Brainstorm event in July, about the plans and priorities for SAP BusinessObjects
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IBM Acquires SPSS – A Big Deal, or Not?
Various commentators have been saying that IBM’s acqusition is a”seminal” moment for the company and the industry. I’m personally a little more skeptical — here’s why.