{"id":12122,"date":"2010-05-04T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2010-05-04T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:05:23","slug":"business-intelligence-and-performance-management-sap-sapphire-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/business-intelligence-and-performance-management-sap-sapphire-now.html","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Guide to BI @ SAP SAPPHIRE NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a 19-year veteran of SAP BusinessObjects, I\u2019m delighted to have the opportunity to be a \u201csocial ambassador\u201d for business intelligence and analytics for SAPPHIRE NOW in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

Whether or not you have any<\/em> SAP products, and whether or not you\u2019ll be attending the physical events, there\u2019s going to be lots of great new information of interest to anybody involved with business intelligence and performance management. My job will be to help you get the most out of the event, through a combination of blog posts (on this site, and on the SAPPHIRE NOW blog site<\/a>, tweets<\/a>, and on the SAPPPHIRE NOW YouTube video channel<\/a> (and no, I don\u2019t intend that to involve being a \u201cwe love SAP faux presence<\/a>\u201d — I’m passionate about BI, and intend to share what I find interesting and useful)<\/p>\n

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This year will see the fruition of lot of the plans we\u2019ve been working on since the Business Objects was acquired by SAP in October 2007. Along with the traditional product updates and customer experience presentations, here are the topic areas I think will be of particular interest:<\/p>\n

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  1. The increased integration between SAP BW with BusinessObjects front-end technology.<\/strong> The conference will include sessions from real-life integrations experiences, for example Accenture and Shell will give a detailed review of their experiences with BusinessObjects and BW<\/li>\n
  2. The integration of SAP in-memory processing technology with BusinessObjects front-end tools for \u201cinstant value\u201d against ANY data source<\/li>\n
  3. The continued development of BusinessObjects technology into cutting-edge areas such as on-demand, enterprise collaboration, social networking analysis, mobile BI, and augmented reality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This post covers some of high-level logistics of SAPPHIRE NOW, and points out some resources that might be of interest — since everything is going to be recorded and available online as part of the http:\/\/sapphirenow.com<\/a> web site, I\u2019ve included sessions that might interest you from both Orlando and Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

    SAPPHIRE NOW in a nutshell<\/h3>\n