Innovation Evangelism

  • Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?

    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…

  • BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)

    BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)

    Cartoon: a BI incompetency center in action

  • 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…

  • 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

  • BI in Bahrain

    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.

  • Twittermania? (Cartoon)

    Twittermania? (Cartoon)

    Twittermania getting out of hand?

  • SAP’s Collborative Sustainability Strategy

    SAP recently announced its intention to collaborate closely with its customers and partners as part of a sustainability strategy that includes aggressive carbon reduction targets, a new cross-functional sustainability organization, and sustainability solutions for customers.

  • Alternative Dashboards?

    Alternative Dashboards?

    Even earlier — and sillier — alternative Xcelsius dashboards.

  • Who Has the Data?

    Who Has the Data?

    When one person in the meeting actually has data, it changes the whole meeting

  • SAP CTO Shares Web 2.0 Vision

    SAP CTO Shares Web 2.0 Vision

    In a recent interview and his blog, Vishal Sikka shared his vision for the SAP product roadmap, including Web 2.0 technologies such as mobile and cloud applications