{"id":12254,"date":"2012-05-25T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:51:45","slug":"anz-sap-innovation-forums-and-bi-briefings-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/anz-sap-innovation-forums-and-bi-briefings-tour.html","title":{"rendered":"ANZ SAP Innovation Forums and BI Briefings Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Australia-SAP-Forum-and-BI-Briefings-Tour.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Australia-SAP-Forum-and-BI-Briefings-Tour-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Australia-SAP-Forum-and-BI-Briefings-Tour-normal.jpg?resize=690%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Australia-SAP-Forum-and-BI-Briefings-Tour-normal\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to nine days, two countries, six cities, and 10 presentations as part of the 2012 Australia and New Zealand SAP Innovation Forum and BI Briefings Tour \u2013 I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<h3>SAP Innovation Forums<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019ll be doing the opening SAP keynote and analytics presentations, packed with examples of customers doing business &#8220;like never before&#8221;. Search for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23sapforum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SAPForum<\/a> on Twitter to follow what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brisbane Tuesday 29 May, 2012, Brisbane Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre<\/li>\n<li>Sydney, Thursday 31 May, 2012, The Establishment hotel, Sydney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/australia\/campaigns\/innovationforum\/index.epx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full details and register<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Business Intelligence Briefings<\/h3>\n<p>These sessions are focused on helping\u00a0 existing SAP BusinessObjects customers get the most out of their BI investments. I\u2019ll be doing the opening keynote on BusinessObjects customers and innovations, followed by local companies talking about their BI and analytics experiences. Search for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23anzbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ANZBI<\/a> on Twitter to follow what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/scn.sap.com\/people\/nic.smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nic Smith<\/a> explains the content best in a <a href=\"http:\/\/scn.sap.com\/community\/mobile\/businessobjects\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/bi-innovation-continues--trackingtimo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent blog pos<\/a>t (and invented a new hashtag: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23trackingtimo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TrackingTimo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s next for BI innovation at SAP? There was a ton of buzz from last week at<a href=\"http:\/\/sapphirenow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> SapphireNOW<\/a> about SAP&#8217;s BI strategy, including a new solution for data discovery called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sap.com\/analytics\/2012\/05\/21\/sap-launches-new-solution-for-data-discovery-welcome-to-sap-visual-intelligence\/\">SAP Visual Intelligence<\/a>. A recent<a href=\"http:\/\/biscorecard.typepad.com\/biscorecard\/2012\/05\/sap-releases-visual-intelligence-innovates-in-bi.html\"> blog post<\/a> from business intelligence analyst Cindi Howson highlights 5 core pillars of SAP&#8217;s BI strategy and points out many of these recent BI innovations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>BI core: SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and the subsequent Feature Pack 3<\/li>\n<li>Creative BI: provide fast time to value for both line of business and IT (Visual Intelligence)<\/li>\n<li>Mobile BI: develop first for mobile users and expand BI to untapped users (SAP Mobile &amp; Zen)<\/li>\n<li>Extreme Analytics: Big data, real time, predictive (Hana, IQ, Predictive Analysis)<\/li>\n<li>Social:\u00a0 capture the decision, leverage the network. (Streamwork)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/biscorecard.typepad.com\/biscorecard\/2012\/05\/sap-releases-visual-intelligence-innovates-in-bi.html\">blog post Cindi writes<\/a>, &#8220;SAP is once again innovating in BI, not just integrating.&#8221;\u00a0 You can stay connected with the latest innovations by following the news from a BI innovation tour next week starting in Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brisbane Tuesday 29 May, 2012, Brisbane Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre (separate registration, after Innovation Forum)<\/li>\n<li>Sydney, Thursday 31 May, 2012, The Establishment hotel, Sydney (separate registration, after Innovation Forum)<\/li>\n<li>Auckland, Friday 1 June, 2012, Stamford Hotel (please contact local office to register)<\/li>\n<li>Adelaide, Monday 4 June, 2012, The Hilton, Adelaide<\/li>\n<li>Melbourne, Tuesday 5 June, 2012, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne<\/li>\n<li>Perth, Tuesday 6 June, 2012 (informal lunch \u2013 please contact local office)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapeventsregistration.com\/index.php\/eventmanager\/EventDetails\/58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full details and register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to nine days, two countries, six cities, and 10 presentations as part of the 2012 Australia and New Zealand SAP Innovation Forum and BI Briefings Tour \u2013 I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3994,"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":[1],"tags":[75,100,108,109,127,131,160,192,204,213,618,732,765,911,930,1047],"class_list":["post-12254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide","tag-analytics","tag-anz","tag-anzbi","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-bi","tag-brisbane","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-innovation","tag-melbourne","tag-new-zealand","tag-sap","tag-sapforum","tag-sydney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Australia-SAP-Forum-and-BI-Briefings-Tour-banner.jpg?fit=690%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3bE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254","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=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20660,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions\/20660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}