Innovation Evangelism

Innovation Evangelism

  • 2008: From Business Automation to Business Optimization?

    However you define the goals of your organization—whether it’s about profit, or saving lives—it’s all about the quest for performance. Today, 9 out of 10 companies fail to execute their strategies. That’s a sobering statistic—and an opportunity for IT organizations everywhere.

  • Business Intelligence Consolidation: Friend or Foe?

    Business Intelligence Consolidation: Friend or Foe?

    Thanks to Shane Schick of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who today reported on “Business intelligence consolidation: friend or foe?” and quoted from this blog (more)

  • The End of a Business Intelligence Era?

    Now that Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects have all been purchased, it’s clear that we’re moving from one vendor era to another. Despite all the digital ink poured out over the acquisitions, relatively little has been written on what the next era looks like… (more)

  • Graphwise: Great Idea, But Needs Work?

    Graphwise: Great Idea, But Needs Work?

    Graphwise is BI 2.0 entrant similar to Swivel and ManyEyes, but with a twist. You enter a search term, and the site scours the web for content that contains tables linked to those terms, then proposes charts based on the data in those tables.

  • IBM Falls off the Fence, and Picks Cognos…

    IBM couldn’t take the heat any more — it’s Cognos, for $5bn. It seems they were reluctant up until the last minute, given the recent agreements announced with Business Objects XI bundled with DB2. But faced with being left out of the cold, and with other suitors surely bearing down on Cognos, they bit the…

  • Concrete Steps to Performance Excellence: Insight 07 Donald MacCormick Keynote

    Concrete Steps to Performance Excellence: Insight 07 Donald MacCormick Keynote

    At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Transformation Officer Donald MacCormick presented on the concrete steps organizations can take to achieve Performance Excellence.

  • Collective Intelligence: Insight 07 Marge Breya Keynote

    Collective Intelligence: Insight 07 Marge Breya Keynote

    At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Marketing Officer Marge Breya presented on the five Cs of intelligence: Content, Context, Collaboration, Community, Collective.

  • Insight 07 Mark Doll Keynote

    Insight 07 Mark Doll Keynote

    At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando yesterday, Mark Doll, Senior VP and General Manager of Services and EPM covered the need to bridge the gap between finance and IT teams with enterprise performance management systems, assisted by Trevor Walker, VP of EPM product marketing. (photos and presentation)

  • Insight 07 Bernard Liautaud Keynote

    Insight 07 Bernard Liautaud Keynote

    It’s the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference in Orlando. Bernard Liautaud’s keynote covered the future of “full-spectrum Business Intelligence”, including the launches of Crystal Reports 2008 and the new BusinessObjects Polestar products. (Photos and presentation…)

  • Insight 07 John Schwarz Keynote

    Insight 07 John Schwarz Keynote

    At the Business Objects Insight 07 User Conference this morning, John Schwarz presented the importance of Performance Excellence across the organization, illustrated with examples from AT&T, Columbia Valley Health, and Disneyland Paris. (Photos and presentation…)