SAP Discusses Latest BI Roadmap

Yesterday, many SAP BusinessObjects customers, mentors, partners and even a few competitors listened in as Steve Lucas as he unveiled SAP’s bold, new analytics strategy.  The twittersphere as active as tweets were tracked using #allaccessanalytics, we had a lot of fun.  Zimkhita Buwa quipped: Steve emphasized that SAP isn’t delivering a ‘mission accomplished’ banner.  It’s just […]

BusinessObjects BI Decision Tree

UPDATE 10/5/2012:  Things have continued to evolve since May and therefore this post has been updated based on the latest roadmap information coming from SAP together with, as always, some of my own thoughts and opinions. The good news, bad news about the SAP BusinessObjects product suite is that although there is a lot of […]

Best of 2011: Lucas Articulates Value of Analytics for Utilities

Back in September, Steve Lucas, Global Senior Executive for Business Analytics, stole the show with a hugely entertaining and well articulated discussion of innovation for Utilities. REWIND From beginning to end, Steve Lucas entertains as he communicates why better information is the key to creating real change. If you are interested in: Seeing Why BI […]

End of Life Dates…

For end of life days about SAP BusinessObjects products go here: https://service.sap.com/bosap-lifecycle On the left had side you should see a tree menu with a link for “Product End of Life Dates”.  This will bring you to the page which displays the original GA (general availability) dates, patch support end-of-life dates and tech support end-of-life […]

Need to Feel Good about BusinessObjects?

Looking Forward to 2010 Over and over again I get questions from customers wondering what the future for the BusinessObjects product suite holds now that it has been acquired by software giant SAP.  Much of what we have heard over the last twelve months has been about product roadmaps and integration centered clearly around SAP […]