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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…)

As part of a continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud computing, SAP and Amazon Web Services today announced that a variety of SAP solutions, including SAP Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP BusinessObjects solutions, are now available on demand via Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read the press release.

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…)

All of the meetings, microforums and theater presentations in the Business Analytics Theater can be summed up in three short words: Standing. Room. Only. SAP customer Sony explains what all of the fuss is about. (more…)

Speaking from SAPPHIRE NOW, Jason Rose of BI Solution Marketing at SAP has a few words to say about the business intelligence (BI) solutions that SAP released in February ??and why these solutions will become exponentially more mobile in the next couple of months. (more…)

To my earlier point that analytics would be hot topic this year at SAPPHIRE NOW, along comes a standing room only presentation from General Mills. Yup, it was standing room only in the Analytics Theater as attendees were eager to learn how General Mills delivers targeted, accurate and timely information. (more…)

According to attendees, business analytics will be a top priority at this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW and for good reason. Companies large and small crave the “insight to action” necessary to drive competitive advantage and higher revenues in an increasingly complex, global marketplace. The ability to drill down quickly through multiple layers of data to get the info you need is a “must-have” imperative. Business analytics is the only game in town that enables this from an IT perspective. (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…)

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…)

It’s undeniable that the PC is superior to a smartphone or tablet for many things. Desktop publishing or extensive data entry, for example. But cynics forget that the converse is also true: mobile devices are better than PCs, even laptops, in a whole mess of scenarios. (more…)