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SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando was packed with examples of how Big Data affects all our lives. SAP Executive Steve Lucas was the host of an Intel-sponsored Big Data special interest group meeting at the conference. He kicked off the session by explaining that he considers himself to be an example of the human face of [...]

Maybe it’s the flurry of activity I witnessed over the past three days. Or possibly it’s the look of “my brain is full” that I saw on people’s faces at 5pm today. Or maybe it’s just because I’m thinking of Bonnie Raitt at tonight’s celebration concert. Whatever the reason, “Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk [...]

Wow…it’s almost three hours post the close of day two at SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando, and I’m still feeling the buzz. And no, I didn’t have any of the beer or wine being poured at showroom booths – my tweets would have been way more creative if I had. Seriously, it was an energy-filled day oozing [...]

As announced last Friday, SAP Visual Intelligence has been renamed to SAP Lumira (you can find the announcement and full FAQ here) Why Did We Change Another Perfectly Good BI Product Name? We know that this decision is likely to be met by some eye-rolling from our faithful customers who are still recovering from previous [...]

Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013. What’s New in BI 4.1 BI 4.1 is one suite for all insight, one place for all information and on standard for enterprise BI. Here are the highlights of the [...]

Wow, was today a busy one for the SAP analytics social media team, beginning with the keynote to our last video of the day with Elizabeth Milne, from EPM solution marketing, who showed great humor and enthusiasm for the day’s events. Below are day one highlights from the Analytics Campus at SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando: big [...]

If you’ve been following the BI innovation clues we posted over the last two weeks you may already have caught some of the BI news happening at SAPPHIRE NOW this week. We’re excited to share the following news and announcements: SAP Visual Intelligence renamed to SAP Lumira, read the SAP newsbyte Special flash sale of [...]

by Daniela Maier, Applied Analytics, SAP Most of our manufacturing customers already use some of SAP’s analytics solutions, such as SAP BusinessObjects Dashbords or SAP Crystal Reports, quite intensively. While these tools are great for understanding what has happened in the past in your business, or for checking what is going on right now, relying [...]

by Isabelle Nuage, Analytics Marketing, SAP Find out how analytics solutions from SAP can help you turn real time insight into big time results. If you’re attending SAPPHIRE NOW next week in Orlando, you will have the opportunity to hear directly from SAP customers on how they are leveraging analytics to help them gain competitive [...]

by Rani Goel, Applied Analytics, SAP What does “Network of Truth”, or “Moment of Truth” mean for you in your industry? Are they the same? In 1987, Jan Carlzon, the CEO of Scandinavian Airlines  wrote in his book “Moments of Truth” that there are 50,000 moments of truth in his company, every day.  These are [...]