The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

With so many demands on our time and resources, it is always difficult to find the time to invest in networking and learning from our peers. But when the LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello invited me to a business breakfast in London with fellow CFOs, I accepted because the topic was interesting and, fortuitously, perfectly fit into a visit I was making to our UKI market unit. (more…)

Business analytics from SAP helps people across organizations better understand what is happening, why things happened and what will happen in the future. It identifies hypothetical risks and gains and helps customers plan their best course of action. This customer panel provides an opportunity to hear how companies and their people derive value and success from business analytics solutions from SAP. (more…)

Surrounded by a dozen attendees at a business analytics microforum today, Mike Nixon, VP of Strategy at SAP, started the session with the notion that the business value of SAP HANA’s potential to the IT / business relationship cannot be overstated. The old-time “guess what I want in my analytic report?” is segueing into a collaborative effort between IT and its internal clients. (more…)

Let me take the mystery out of business analytics for you and tell you why it’s so powerful today and so exciting for the future.

Business analytics today

I meet with customers almost every day, and one of the first questions they ask in discussing business analytics is: Where do we start? (more…)

Keith Costello, EVP of Analytic Solutions at SAP, took a moment at SAPPHIRE NOW to share some insights into the popularity of SAP analytic applications and a sneak peek into the future plans for these apps. (more…)

At CeBIT 2011 in Hanover, Germany, SAP hosts press conference with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe; Peter Lorenz, EVP, On Demand/SME and corporate officer; and Michael Kleinemeier, regional president of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Watch the replay: SAP press conference at CeBIT 2011. (more…)

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…)

Together with customers and partners at CeBIT 2011, being held in Hanover, Germany, March 1-5, SAP will present its business software solutions and newest advances in areas such as cloud computing, in-memory computing, mobility and business analytics. The company will present its solutions for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in Hall 5, joined by more than 25 partners. Solutions for public administration will be on display in the Public Sector Parc in Hall 9. Read the press release.

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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