Tag: Business Intelligence
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BI for Baby: Dashboards to Track Your Child’s KPIs (And The Rest of Us)
You can now track a slew of key performance indicators for your baby — how long before this becomes part of our own daily lives?
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OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)
OLAP’s days are over — long live the term “analytics”
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SAP TechEd Vienna ‘09 Opening Keynote: Change, Integration and Innovation
An overview of the opening Keynote of SAP TechEd Vienna, featuring Mark Yolton, Jim Snabe, Marge Breya and Ian Kimbell of SAP, and enterprise architect Nayaki Nayyar of Valero Energy.
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Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?
It’s not only organizations that struggle with errors due to manual spreadsheets — here’s a nice example from Slate and the State of Maryland.
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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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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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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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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.