Tag: SAP

  • SAP and Open Social at the Google I/O Developer Conference

    SAP and Open Social at the Google I/O Developer Conference

    John Mayerhofer and Laurent Bride will be talking about SAP’s use of Open Social APIs during the Google I/O Developer Conference, on Thursday May 28th, 12pm – 1pm, as part of a discussion on “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”: In the year and half since OpenSocial’s public launch, there are now over 700 million end users…

  • Dashboard Web Seminar: Empower Users With Critical Information

    I’m doing a web seminar today on Dashboards best practice, with Brad Devlin explaining how best to use BusinessObjects Xcelsius — here’s the invitation text, and a copy of the slides.

  • SAPPHIRE 09 Virtual Event

    SAPPHIRE 09 Virtual Event

    This is the part of a series of posts looking at Web 2.0 technology in conjunction with last week’s SAPPHIRE ‘09 event in Orlando, Florida. This post looks at using the latest technologies to expand the reach of SAPPHIRE far beyond just the people physically attending. In the last six months, SAP has extensively tested…

  • Jonathan Becher’s SAPPHIRE 09 Blog

    Jonathan Becher’s SAPPHIRE 09 Blog

    Jonathan Becher, SVP Marketing for SAP (and my boss), wrote a series of blog postings about the recent SAPPHIRE event. Since these were part of the “Insights at SAPPHIRE” event on the inXpo platform, and the event is now closed, they are no longer accessible. This didn’t strike me a very Web 2.0 result (indeed,…

  • Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today

    Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today

    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…

  • Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!

    Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!

    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…

  • A New Data Architecture for Faster, Better BI: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

    A New Data Architecture for Faster, Better BI: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

    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…

  • SAP BusinessObjects @ SAPPHIRE US ‘09

    It’s SAPPHIRE 09 in Orlando next week — here are some links to connect you to SAP BusinessObjects resources at and around the show.

  • Social Network Analyzer Download Available

    The Social Network Analyzer prototype unveiled in a previous blog post was available on demand. It can now be downloaded and used within your own organization (or even just on your PC) from the SAP Innovation Center site. Enterprise social network analysis is clearly an essential part of getting a real return on investment on Web…