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SAP’s first ever iPhone application is now available on Apple’s iTunes applications store. It’s BNE traffic, an innovative application from SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia that carries out analysis of Tweets using BusinessObjects Text Analysis.
SAP’s first ever iPhone application is now available on Apple’s iTunes applications store. No, it’s not BusinessObjects Explorer for the iPhone — that’s on its way. It’s BNE traffic, an innovative application from SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia.
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.
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer was recently launched at SAPPHIRE 2009 in Orlando. Here’s a long list of Explorer product, trial, customer, technical, and press links that I’m aware of so far.
SAP Inside Track Palo Alto 2009 will be held this week on May 29. It’s a day of community organized sessions for people in SAP technical and functional roles. The sessions are lead by SAP staff and Mentors living in the Bay Area – check out the list of sessions. We’re strong believers in collaboration, …
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Wikipedia defines Web 3.0 as the “semantic web”, “making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.” We’ll get a step closer to that vision when Wolfram|Alpha (or maybe just “WolframAlpha” – their web site uses both) launches later today. Wolfram|Alpha is …
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As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out the product and learn how microfinance is helping reduce global poverty by visiting the excellent SAP BusinessObjects Explorer demo at http://microfinance.sap.com. It will challenge you to find answers to a few questions, and you’ll be …
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Today at the SAPPHIRE user conference in Orlando, SAP announced it would “revolutionize BI with a new solution that delivers insight at the speed of thought”. The new package is called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated, and it combines the search and visualization capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Polestar (now renamed SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) with SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA).