ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference 2010 Keynotes
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Business Intelligence in Lisbon: IT Operations Dashboards
Business Intelligence Conference day in Lisbon, Portugal, with a great example of dashboards for IT operations.
Business Intelligence Iceland: Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik
Download my Business Intelligence Presentations from the Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland
Follow SAP's Sybase Press Conference Live
SAP is holding a Press Conference to unveil their strategy in enterprise mobility, business analytics, and enterprise information management as a result of the Sybase acquisition. The event is held in Boston and Frankfurt simultaneously, with Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe participating in their respective countries. You can follow the event on [...]
New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype
Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype. The idea stemmed from one of the key themes of my BI future directions presentations: that for the first time in centuries, new technology comes from the [...]
EMC Shows That It Understands Enterprise BI/Big Data Game With Greenplum Acquisition
Today EMC surprised the industry with its announcement that it is acquiring the privately held California based Greenplum Inc., a leading player in data warehousing space with a successful big data platform with superior business analytics. EMC is planning to use this acquisition to form a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure [...]
RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad
RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their [...]
Clear Intelligence Future Presentation Screencam
Here’s a recorded screencam version of the “Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic” presentation that I provided in a previous post, complete with demos. You’ll probably want to put it into full screen mode to appreciate the demos… (Cross-posted @ the BI Questions Blog)
Intacct Winter 2010 – More Strings to the Bow
Last week I had a briefing from Dan Druker, SVP Marketing from Intacct (more here) on their forthcoming winter release and a review of their 2009 performance. First a recap of the past year: 80% quarter to quarter growth in Q4 Over 3300 customers with over 30000 users Massive uptake from accounting firms with their [...]
GoodData – More of the Same, Dressed Up Like New?
Late last year GoodData gained quite some degree of publicity – due in no small part to the caliber of its investors. Tim O’Reilly is both an investor and board member and Marc Andreesen is also behind the venture. At first blush it would seem that GoodData provides the holy grail – on-demand visualization and [...]
SAP’s 12sprints Collaborative Decision-Making Prototype
You can now sign up to be a beta participant of SAP’s 12sprints project, “a collaborative environment for people to make better decisions based on data” or a “people-connecting, data-sharing, decision-making tool that actually sets work in motion.” Early versions of the prototype were glimpsed during demonstrations by Léo Apotheker and Ian Kimbell at SAP [...]
The Quest For a Personalized Enterprise Dashboard
Most executives and managers digest multiple streams of information on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Tying this information together quickly and acting on it is challenging and the end result is usually an executive or manager that is reacting instead of being proactive. One reason is that the majority of those executives [...]
SharePoint 2010 Conference Review – Dashboards, Social and User Configuration
7000+ people showed up for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The conference was overbooked and many more people wanted to attend but couldn’t. Why all this demand for what amounts to be a large product pitch? Because the enterprise collaboration space is white hot right now with many companies looking to leverage collaboration suites [...]
YouCalc for Zendesk, Analytical View of Helpdesk Data
I’ve written many times in the past about Zendesk (see here) and have also written about YouCalc. These two companies have much in common, YouCalc founder Rasmus Madsen was actually part of an early “friends and family” funding round for Zendesk, they’re both from Denmark (although Zendesk is now based in San Francisco) and they [...]
Analysis – The Choice of a New Generation
Image via CrunchBase As part of this weeks Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston a launchpad series was run where four finalists were invited to pitch to the audience who would then vote for a winner. I posted about the four finalists before the event and made my prediction for the eventual winner. I’m pleased to [...]
