Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 02/15/2009
Matter management systems all have reporting capabilities, from canned reports that come with installation to elaborate report writers. The low-tech way to supplement those capabilities is to export data to a spreadsheet and massage it there (See my post of...
Mark Logic CEO Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
This post is a bit off topic for my blog, but since I do delve into matters of marketing, I thought I'd share a link to this paper, co-authored by old friend Richard Fuchs (who among things, ran Business Objects Asia-Pacific) entitled The Feasibility of Neuroimaging Methods in Market Research . Excerpt: McClure et al's (2004) highly publicised, and already mentioned, study comparing Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola...
BI Questions Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, SAP launched Business Suite 7 last week. Despite skepticism about some of the claims made for the new suite, analysts declared that the inclusion of BusinessObjects analytics into the suite was a big part of its appeal.
Beyond Search (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Stephen Swoyer’s “How BI Habits Are Changing” here. In general, I agree with his points. What impressed me was the jargon free analysis of the changes in business intelligence. For me, the most interesting comment was: SAP has a lot of account control in SAP shops [...]
BI Questions Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Today, SAP launched SAP Investigative Case Management for Public Sector, a new solution to support police and other investigating authorities in the efforts to prevent, detect and investigate crime. It’s a great example of the new SAP Business Suite 7 applications that integrate technology from the Business Objects acquisition, combining both operational and analytic expertise into a single solution....
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Company Outperforms Competitors Earning Best in Class Rating for Value Delivered (PRWeb Feb 10, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/aberdeen/qlikview/prweb1967344.htm
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
FORMER Business Objects and Oracle Asia-Pacific senior executive Keith Budge has landed a regional role at database maker Greenplum.
Jobs 4 Careers (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
Our client is seeking a Directory Services Administrator to perform work for a government customer. If you are qualified and interested in this position, please apply online today for immediate consideration. Business Objects Development Qualifications: 3-4 years of Business Objects design and development of Universes and Reports Firm understanding of Business Objects XI and its most current features...
Jobs 4 Careers (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
DBA,SQL, Visual Basic, Business Objects, Database near Austin, TX This job is open as of 2/2/2009. Apply Now! Not a fit for this job? Search other Business Intelligence Manager jobs! Are you an employer? Visit us for more info! Email this job to a friend - $1000 Location Austin, TX; Manor, TX Salary $75,000 - $90,000 Education Bachelor of Science Category Information Technology Experience Required...
TechChuck (Free subscription) | 01/31/2009
This was an exciting week for the KDE project, which officially launched its 4.2 release. We also got our first glimpse of Moblin 2, and Mozilla launched a new campaign in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation to improve Ogg. Intel releases Linux-based Moblin 2 Alpha for Netbooks: The first alpha release of Intel's Linux-based Moblin 2 platform is now available for download. It's designed to...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
Talend is a French outfit looking to shake up the expensive, largely proprietary world of data integration and analysis with a coherent suite of tools and with a MySQL-like dual licensing strategy. I caught up with VP of Marketing Yves de Montcheuil earlier this week. The really big question is- are enterprises ready for open [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
Remember me, SAP? The founder, former chairman and chief executive of Business Objects has turned to open source for his latest venture in business intelligence.…
Mark Logic CEO Blog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
If box-bearing facilities guys are the harbinger of a executive's disappearance, then I suppose the corporate website is the harbinger of a company's. A bit more than a year into Business Objects' acquisition by SAP, they seem to have done the "Business Objects, an SAP company" thing pretty well. That is, SAP seems to have let Business Objects operate as a relatively independent business...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
Fourth quarter sales jump 8% on strength of services revenues.
News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
Software maker SAP AG, the German parent company of Business Objects, said Wednesday it will cut about 3,000 of its 51,500 jobs worldwide this year to trim costs. The company said its 2008 net profit fell 2 percent.
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