SAP to Deliver Integrated Social Analytics to the Enterprise

"SAP Social Media Analytics by NetBase enables enterprises to create an enterprise social analytics platform that offers a wider and deeper perspective on a range of activities"...

This tool allows organizations to extract unstructured data from the web (95 million social media posts daily from Twitter, Facebook, news feeds, blogs and other sources) and by that analyse trends,feedbacks
,requests and many other data items that can bring a better understanding of the business work flow.

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Oracle Announces Exalytics - In memory and Advanced data visualization

Oracle has released it's version for In memory fast computing for BI environments

("The industry's first in-memory BI machine "...), now Oracle will also become a player in the In memory technologies market setting an alternatinve and competition to SAP HANA,Qlikview and other vendors.

Oracle press release:

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/exalytics-bi-machine/overview/index.html

SAP will integrate Google Maps

SAP will cooperate with Google Maps,after Centigon has already integrated Google Maps in Xcelsius,

now comes SAP  turn to targer to one of the hottest areas of BI -Data Visualization in a geographic context/

read here the original article that was published by SAP 

http://www.sap.com/about-sap/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=17358

Watch the demo here :

http://analytics.news-sap.com/2011/07/25/demo-sap-and-google-team-for-location-based-intelligence/

How will Designer look like in the next version ?

Version BI4 is officially out and among all articles and presentations that you can find online here is a very good one written by Joshua Fletcher, who presents the new Designer capabilities:

http://geek2live.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Joshua-Fletcher_Day-2_Track-C_13.25-v2.pdf

The roadmap of HANA

Here is  another taste of what can we expect from HANA in the upcoming years :

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/24398

BI4 Knowledge Center

If you want to know exactly what awaits for you in the next version of SAP Business Objects and

what changes are about to be made you can enter the following link and read all the new manuals

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi

The future of BI by Timo elliott

A question that always on my mind: how will  BI look like in 5 / 10 years from now...?
Timo elliot from SAP speaks and presents the vision of SAP in a series of presentations and videos :

http://timoelliott.com/blog/2010/07/presentation-the-future-of-business-intelligence.html

SAP and IBM Test SAP In-Memory Appliance

The innovation war continues:

SAP will collaborate with IBM (which bought Cognos) in order to integrate the in memory technologies.

Currently DB2 is beeing tested .

If we wll also consider the replication server of SAP the and intention to replace the usual load services, we have a more immediate view on the future of the BI and technological environment

that awaits us:

http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/press.epx?pressid=14906

http://it.themarker.com/tmit/article/14603

HANA is here

If you have not heard about the new project of Sap,Hana - High-Performance Analytic Appliance - a project which should bring the best of bread in terms of performance.

I think that there is no doubt that the future of BI has to grow through the in memory capabilities

and SAP is getting us close to that place.

http://timoelliott.com/blog/2010/12/sap-introduces-first-hana-enabled-application-links-and-screen-shots.html

Here is a quick review written about HANA in the http://biscorecard.typepad.com/biscorecard/ :

"Queries that the customer used to run in two to three hours now run in two to three seconds. The data volumes were not that big – 9 million customer records. But it’s the complexity of customer segmentation and that the queries were running directly in the transactional source system that made for the slow queries. Christian Ritter, head of Reporting and Global IT at Hilti, explained that with HANA, they would skip building a data warehouse altogether. Data is replicated in near real time from the SAP transaction systems into HANA."

BI trends for 2011

What awaits for us this year?

Read here the article by Cindi Howson from BI scorecard:

http://biscorecard.typepad.com/biscorecard/2011/01/big-themes-in-bi-for-2011.html

And here is the Gartner forecast for 2011:
http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/qliktech/article3/article3.html

Xcelsius 2011: Direct query binding

In the next version of  Xcelsius you will be able to built a presentation without the use of a spreadsheet.
Here's a short video from the recent User conference that demonstrates the new capabilities :

SAP BI4

In the following link you can find presentations for all the new components in the latest version of SAP Business Objects:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/bi-suite-tutorials?refer=marketing

SAP BO Exploration Dashboards

Looks like the next version (Release 4) is going to changethe look and feel of data and upgrade them far ahead.

You can see that SAP is finally taking the products of Business Objects and trying to connect them in a much more efficient way

Watch the next clip that shows an upgrade in the SAP Explorer (previously known as Polsetar ...)

New SAP Version features

Get a glimpse of the new features in SAP new version,Xcelsius direct binding ,Designer and the new Olap engine

What’s in BusinessObjects v4.0

צפו במצגת רשמית של Sap הכוללת בעיקר התייחסות למבנה הפלטפורמה החדש :

 http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/20bb3d3d-ccc3-2d10-96b4-edbfebb94c8d&overridelayout=true

Sap ו -In memory

Sap ממשיכה לשעוט לעבר העתיד הטכנולוגי הקרוב מאי פעם:טכנולוגיית ה-In memory מיושמת בתוך כלי ה-BI שלה קראו כאן אודות ההכרזה על מנוע החישוב החדש:
http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=13293

ואם לצטט מהמקורות,זה נשמע מאוד מאוד מעניין:

"star schemas do not have to be built first. The new engine promises to benefit existing Business Objects customers. "

Roam BI וה-ipad

אז זהו,ה-Roam Bi מתממשק גם עם ה-ipad :

Roam BI -שילוב מצגות Xcelsius ב-iphone

את המוצר הנ"ל פתחו מומחי Xcelsius תוך כדי עקיפת מגבלת ה-flash ב-iphone והתוצאה ייחודית ומדהימה: