{"id":12245,"date":"2012-03-07T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:44:56","slug":"sap-innovation-tour-in-the-baltics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/sap-innovation-tour-in-the-baltics.html","title":{"rendered":"SAP Innovation Tour in the Baltics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"SAP Innovation Tour: Tallinn by Night\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sap-innovation-tour-tallinn.jpg?resize=690%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SAP Innovation Tour: Tallinn by Night\" width=\"690\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in the Baltics this week (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia), presenting a business innovation keynote and a big data track session as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/innovationbysap.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Innovation Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s sessions in Tallinn were fascinating, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Industry thought leader Peep Aavikso, on why smart companies need smart people<\/li>\n<li>Janeck Gustavson of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energia.ee\/en\/home\/start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eesti Energy<\/a> talking about their use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/large\/enterprise-performance-management\/planningandconsolidation\/index.epx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A very passionate talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/olga-lustsik\/a\/168\/a72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olga Lustsik<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swedbank.ee\/private\/home\/start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swedbank Estonia<\/a> explaining the power of activity based costing, and how they have implemented SAP Profit and Cost Management (PCM)<\/li>\n<li>An interactive whiteboarding session with SAP\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/santoshtakoor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santosh Takoor<\/a> explaining how to align corporate strategy with systems of execution for best in class operations in finance (with <a title=\"SAP Enterprise Performance Management\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/large\/enterprise-performance-management\/index.epx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAP Enterprise Performance Management<\/a> and lots of compelling customer examples)<\/li>\n<li>SAP\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/dr-jens-baumann\/25\/841\/377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Jens Baumman<\/a> on rapid deployment solutions for SAP ERP<\/li>\n<li>SAP\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/eero-koskinen\/0\/a4\/696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eero Koskinen<\/a> on the power of SAP HANA<\/li>\n<li>And finally a GREAT demonstration of the latest SAP solutions and prototypes by the SAP Demo team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My keynote presentation was based on some of the material from a previous post: <a title=\"2012, The Year Analytics Means Business\" href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/2012-the-year-analytics-means-business.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012, The Year Analytics Means Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s sessions are in Vilnius, Lithuania, including a fascinating presentation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sarunasc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarunas Chomentauskas<\/a>, Co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/metasite.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metasite Business Solutions<\/a>, on how they have used open-source Big Data technologies for their customers including customer churn, and machine learning techniques including how to explain the difference between a dog and a cat to a computer\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"dog-cat-comparison\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dog-cat-comparison.jpg?resize=690%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"dog-cat-comparison\" width=\"690\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"computer-view-dog-vs-cat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/computer-view-dog-vs-cat.jpg?resize=690%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"computer-view-dog-vs-cat\" width=\"690\" height=\"332\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll update this post over the course of the coming days. You can follow the tour on twitter using the <a title=\"Search for SAP Innovation on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23SAPInnovation\">#SAPInnovation<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Photo Mar 07, 7 00 09 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Photo-Mar-07-7-00-09-AM.jpg?resize=690%2C371&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo Mar 07, 7 00 09 AM\" width=\"690\" height=\"371\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dawn this morning over Vilnius, Lithuania<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in the Baltics this week (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia), presenting a business innovation keynote and big data track session as part of the SAP Innovation Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,100,147,173,174,198,204,285,453,500,556,618,681,696,838,888,911,932,1050,1117],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-bigdata","tag-analytics","tag-baltics","tag-big-data","tag-big-table","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-conference","tag-estonia","tag-forum","tag-hadoop","tag-innovation","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-presentation","tag-riga","tag-sap","tag-sapinnovation","tag-tallinn","tag-vilnius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3bv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}