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Here’s a roundup of all the latest analytics news from SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid on subjects including SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, collaborative analytics, new mobile applications, updated analytic applications, and more. You can get more information on all of these at the SAPPHIRE NOW campuses. (more…)

I’ll be an official “social ambassador” for analytics at SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid next week. This blog attempts to summarize the main analytics-related activities during the two days of SAPPHIRE NOW – but note that this year, SAPPHIRE NOW attendees also have access to all SAP TechEd sessions that are going on at the same time, making it even harder than usual to choose from the dizzying array of possible sessions (the SAP TechEd sessions are technology-focused, and include more networking sessions with IT peers, while the SAPPHIRE NOW sessions focus on the business aspects and include more customer sessions). (more…)

SAP today announced that the Essar Group has chosen the SAP HANA platform and the 4.0 release of business intelligence (BI) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio to strengthen its existing investments in SAP software and gain real-time visibility into businesses across all its verticals. Additionally, the company has selected mobility solutions from SAP and Sybase, an SAP company, to mobilize its critical business functions. Read the newsbyte.

SAP and partners discuss what the speed of in-memory technology and a new wave of business analytics means for customers, providing further insight into recent news of the 4.0 releases of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio (see “SAP Unveils Future of Analytics: Real-Time, Mobile“). Speakers include Jacob Klein, vice president, SAP HANA-Project Leader, and Timo Elliott, BI Evangelist.

• Watch the replay: SAP Press Roundtable “Game Changers in Today’s Business”at CeBIT 2011. (more…)

SAP devoted the second day of SAP Influencer Summit 2010 to its on-demand solutions and roadmap. Presenting to a room full of analysts, bloggers and reporters typing “#sapsummit” into every message they tweeted, Peter Lorenz, executive vice president and corporate officer, kicked off the day with SAP’s perspective on cloud computing for the enterprise. (more…)

It wasn’t a surprise to see this prediction in CIO.com’s top 10 business predictions for 2011: “Real-time analytics will define and drive the real-time organization. As analytics is layered onto the megatrends of cloud, mobile and social, its capacity to create real-time businesses becomes closer than it appears.” In the social arena, Twitter plans to release a real-time analytics dashboard (possibly for free). Tweeters will be able to see what messages have a high number of retweets and conversely which ones don’t catch on.

What’s assumed in the prediction is that analytics goes hand-in-hand with the data on which it is based – and not just that the data enables the analytics. This assumption was made explicit during the SME breakout session at the SAP Influencer Summit.

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Yesterday at SAP Influencer Summit 2010, SAP Executive Board Member Vishal Sikka outlined the company’s vision to “simplify, innovate and evolve” customers’ business systems and that message would continue to resonate throughout the remainder of the day’s sessions, which explored how these themes applied to organizations’ on-premise, on-demand and on-device solutions. (more…)