Vishal Sikka, who leads technology and innovation at SAP, followed Hasso Platner onto the keynote stage; I decided to break the post and publish just Plattner’s portion since my commentary was getting bit long. Sikka also started his part of the keynote with HANA, and highlighted some customer case studies from their “10,000 Club”, where [...]
Tagged sapphirenowIt’s the last day of SAP’s enormous SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 conference here in Orlando, and the day opens with Hasso Plattner, one of the founders of SAP who still holds a role in defining technology strategy. As expected, he starts with HANA and cloud. He got a good laugh from the audience when saying that [...]
Tagged sapphirenowIngrid Van Den Hoogen and Kevin Ichhpurani gave a press briefing on what’s coming for HANA Enterprise Cloud following the launch last week. Now that the cloud offering is available, existing customers can move any of their HANA-based applications — Business Suite, CRM, Business Warehouse, and custom applications — to the cloud platform. There’s also [...]
Tagged sapphirenowThis morning, our opening keynote was from SAP’s other co-CEO, Jim Snabe. He started with a bit about competitive advantage and adaptation to changing conditions, illustrated with the fact that Sumatran tigers have evolved webbed feet so that they can chase their prey into water: evolution and even extinction in business is not much different [...]
Tagged sapphirenowI met up with the NetWeaver BPM product management team and sat in on a session given by Alan Rickayzen of SAP and their customer King Tantivejkul of Colgate-Palmolive on putting intelligence into processes. This wasn’t about process automation — it was assumed that you have some sort of process automation in some system already, [...]
Tagged sapphirenowA couple of weeks ago, IBM had two analyst calls about the announcements this week at IBM Connect 2013; since I’m not at the conference, I wrote most of this at that time but only published today due to embargo restrictions. It’s the 20th anniversary of Lotusphere, although the conference is no longer branded as [...]
Tagged IBMConnectI was on an IBM analyst call this morning on analytics in banking, featuring Laurence Trigwell, who is responsible for IBM’s business analytics strategy for the Financial Services industry. In response to a number of challenges that banks (and other financial institutions) are facing, he identified three key initiatives for these companies: Creating a customer-focused [...]
Murray Rode, COO of TIBCO, started the analyst briefings with an overview of technology trends (as we heard this morning, mobile, cloud, social, events) and business trends (loyalty and cross-selling, cost reduction and efficiency gains, risk management and compliance, metrics and analytics) to create the four themes that they’re discussing at this conference: digital customer [...]
Tagged ESB, mobile, TIBCO, tucon2012Back from the mid-morning break, CMO Raj Verma shifted gears from customer experience management to look at one of the other factors introduced in the first part of the session: big data. Matt Quinn was back to talk about big data: in some ways, this isn’t new, since there has been a lot of data [...]
Tagged ESB, TIBCO, tucon2012The keynotes started with TIBCO’s CEO, Vivek Ranadivé, talking about the forces driving change: a massive explosion of data (big data), the emergence of mobility, the emergence of platforms, the rise of Asia (he referenced the Gangnam Style video, although did not actually do the dance), and how math is trumping science (e.g., the detection [...]
Tagged ESB, TIBCO, tucon2012Great keynote at AWD Advance this morning by Captain Michael Abrashoff, author of It’s Our Ship, a book on leadership; I confess to tearing up a bit when he described how he supported and encouraged the young people who worked for him, and hope that I did a fraction as well when I ran a [...]
Tagged AWD12Kim Smyly presented on some of the new monitoring and analytics capabilities in AWD. They now have interactive dashboards, charts and reports that link directly to the underlying transactions, and can include line of business data in the reports. Writing reports in the custom AWD BI engine has been replaced with an OEM version of [...]
Tagged AWD12And here’s the white paper from this afternoon’s webinar (registration required) on Enabling Process Intelligence Through Process Mining & Analytics. Sponsored by Fujitsu, written by me, reviewed with many helpful comments by Keith Swenson and the rest of the Fujitsu team. When the on-demand webinar is available, I’ll post a link.
A bit short notice, but I’m doing a webinar this afternoon at 2pm (Eastern) on process intelligence through process mining and analytics, along with Keith Swenson of Fujitsu, and you can sign up here. Fujitsu is sponsoring the webinar, as well as the white paper that I have written to go into the topic in [...]
I had a briefing with TIBCO on their Spotfire 4.0 release, announced today and due to be released by the end of November. Spotfire is the analytics platform that TIBCO acquired a few years back, and provides end-user tools for dimensional analysis of data. This includes both visualization and mashups with other data sources, such [...]
Tagged Spotfire, tibbrContinuing in the SAP World Tour in Toronto today, I went to a breakout innovation session on NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) and HANA, with Steve Holder from their BusinessObjects center of excellence. HANA, in case you’ve been hiding from all SAP press releases in the past two years, is an analytic appliance (High-performance ANalytic Applicance, [...]
Tagged SAP, sapphire, SAPWTI attended the keynote at IBM’s CASCON conference in Toronto today, where Judy Huber, who directs the IBM Canada software lab, kicked off the session by reminding us that IBM software development has been happening in Canada since 1967 and continues to grow, and of the importance of collaboration between the research and industry communities. [...]
Tagged cascon2011The second half of the workshop started with Renée Miller from University of Toronto digging into the deeper database levels of BI, and the evolving role of schema from a prescriptive role (time-invariant, used to ensure data consistency) to a descriptive role (describe/understand data, capture business knowledge). In the old world, a schema was meant [...]
Tagged cascon2011I only have one day to attend CASCON this year due to a busy schedule this week, so I am up in Markham (near the IBM Toronto software lab) to attend the NSERC Business Intelligence Network workshop this morning. CASCON is the conference run by IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies throughout the world, including the [...]
Tagged cascon2011James Kobielus of Forrester brought the concepts of predictive analytics to processes to discuss optimizing processes using the Next Best Action (NBA): using analytics and predictive models to figure out what you should do next in a process in order to optimize customer-facing processes. As we heard in this morning’s keynote, agility is mandatory not [...]
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