{"id":11886,"date":"2007-07-02T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-07-02T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:44:46","slug":"bi_briefs_ups_facebook_mysql_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/bi_briefs_ups_facebook_mysql_s.html","title":{"rendered":"BI Briefs: UPS, Facebook, MySQL, SAP, Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPS minimizes left-turns<\/strong>. Advanced route planning minimizes fuel consumption and accidents. An <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=2190\">old story<\/a>, but given new life with a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199203715\">InformationWeek interview<\/a> with UPS CIO Dave Barnes (and a good example of delivering effectively on a strategic multi-year&nbsp;IT project).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook&#8217;s community app platform.<\/strong> As BI vendors try to web-2.0 themselves, they will need to create communities &#8212; will they start turning to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/06\/analyzing_the_f.html\">new platforms<\/a>, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/\">Facebook&#8217;s<\/a>? From the look at the applications available so far, no &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/facereviews.com\/2007\/06\/20\/10-points-from-facebook-ceo-as-he-talks-to-facebook-developers-in-nyc\/\">over 25s are their fastest-growing segment, and there&#8217;s at least some interest in the enterprise space<\/a>: &#8220;interesting&#8230; harder to build than consumer&#8230; maybe ability to better integrate applications some down the line&#8221;. Disclosure: I only signed up two weeks ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MySQL going public? <\/strong>How much is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2007\/tc20070625_775467.htm\">open-source worth<\/a> in the BI space? This will presumably be eagerly watched by open-source BI vendors such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaho.com\/\">Pentaho<\/a>. I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/index.php\">iStockPhoto<\/a> for cheap, royalty-free images for presentations, and it turns out that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/news-and-events\/press-release\/release_2007_19.html\">use Pentaho and MySQL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAP&#8217;s Performance Management Blog.<\/strong> Nenshad Bardoliwalla was at Hyperion before joining SAP. His blog gives insight into how the <a href=\"http:\/\/bardoli.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/sap-acquires-outlooksoft-and-launches.html\">acquisition of Outlooksoft<\/a> fits into SAP&#8217;s strategy (with link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/community\/int\/webcast\/2007_05_Sapphire_EU\/index.epx?sessionid=080\">SAP&#8217;s CPM presentation<\/a> in May), and talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/bardoli.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/sap-brings-strategy-to-everyone-web-20.html\">Pilot&#8217;s web 2.0 approach to strategy<\/a> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/sap_buys_a_eis_pioneer.html\">previous posting<\/a>.)&nbsp; And some inevitable <a href=\"http:\/\/bardoli.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/oracles-inability-to-focus-and-execute.html\">Oracle\/Hyperion bashing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Microsoft PerformancePoint a tough sell<\/strong>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esj.com\/business_intelligence\/article.aspx?EditorialsID=8495\">Stephen Sawyer writes<\/a> that Office, Excel and confusion shaping up as PerformancePoint Server\u2019s biggest competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS minimizes left-turns. 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