Innovation Evangelism
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Web 2.0 Presentation Tools from SAP – Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint!
New Web 2.0 presentation tools give presenters the opportunity to view and react to twitter feeds in real-time, and let the audience vote on options via Twitter, without any extra screens or resources, based on SAP BusinessObjects’ Xcelsius dashboarding technology.
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How to Easily Analyze Your Excel Data in the Cloud
Now it’s even easier than ever to upload and analyze your Excel spreadsheets online, in the cloud, using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud. Read about the new features of the prototype!
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Interview with DecisionStats.com
Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com has a selection of great interviews with people in the BI/analytics space. Here’s an interview he did with me last week covering trends in predictive analytics, cloud computing, social network analysis, etc.
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BI FAIL #2
Business Intelligence Fail #2 — showing a chart that’s completely different from the data, on the site USAspending.gov
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SAP and The 2.0 Adoption Council
I am a proud member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, a group devoted to creating and sharing best practices in Enterprise 2.0 adoption. The 2.0 Adoption Council is a peer-based, information-sharing group interested in the latest thinking, best practices, case studies, and helpful tips associated with executing socio-collaborative strategies and projects in the large enterprise.
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How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
Performance metrics are a powerful tool of organizational change, but the wrong metrics can have unintended consequences. How should you choose KPIs and implement dashboards? TDWI explains.
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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.