Tag: BusinessObjects
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The End of Relational Databases?
SAP’s co-founder believes that “disk has become yesterday’s tape” and that the era of relational databases is over, to be replaced by column storage for both data warehousing AND enterprise applications.
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Social BI: Jive Chooses SAP’s On-Demand BI Platform
At the Enterprise 2.0 2009 event in Boston, Jive and SAP announced that Jive is going to be a reseller of SAP’s on-demand BI solutions, providing “social BI” to their customers. Here’s why BI is essential for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives.
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American Recovery Act Business Intelligence
Anybody that receives funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) must meet stringent legal reporting requirements, and aggregating all the information will require sophisticated information management. Greater government transparency through business intelligence may turn out to be the most challenging BI applications ever.
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Drink Dispenser Analytics: Coca-Cola Goes Freestyle, With Help from SAP BI
Coca-Cola has introduced a new RFID-enabled drink dispenser that serves over 100 flavors and wirelessly beams information to an SAP BW datawarehouse in Atlanta, ready for advanced analytics.
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Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making
Gartner has published their take on the new Collaborative Decision Making market (CDM) This report predicts a new style of decision support system — collaborative decision making (CDM) — will emerge in 2009 that combines social software with business intelligence (BI). This combination can dramatically improve the quality of decision making by directly linking the…
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A New Decision Engine: Hunch, and Guided Analysis for the Enterprise
A new “Decision Engine” called Hunch was launched today. How might this type of technology relate to collaborative decision-making in enterprises?
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The Convergence of Business Intelligence, EPM, and GRC
According to IDC, the current economic conditions are forcing organizations to not only better manage corporate performance but also increase business transparency, and to achieve this, organizations must integrate EPM, GRC, and business analytics.
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BI Is Indeed Counter-Cyclical: Market Shares
It’s official: according to Gartner, as reported by Mary Hayes Weier in Information Week, business intelligence is indeed counter-cyclical. Despite the tough economic climate, BI is growing at a healthy 22%, with SAP/Business Objects leading the pack.
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BusinessObjects TweetCloud
Go here to see who’s tweeting about BusinessObjects, and the key terms they’re talking about: http://tweetcloud.com/search/term/businessobjects. Oops — my username appears in the cloud! I guess I enjoy my work too much…
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SAP’s New CIO on The Power of Information
SAP announced today that Oliver Bussmann will be taking over as CIO. Bussmann is clearly a believer in the power of information, performance metrics, and measurement.