Several BI vendors, insist that real time data will magically change the enterprise world. They may be right – I have often heard my customers echo that line too. But here is the question that doesn’t get asked often enough – what will you do with it, if information is delivered to you real time?Continue reading “Are you sure you can make use of REAL TIME data?”
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SAP says HANA is ready for General Availability. What say you?
Today, along with few other bloggers – I had a chance to listen to Vishal Sikka of SAP. Special thanks to Craig Cmehil for inviting me to this meeting. Vishal told us that HANA is going GA on Monday June 20th, 2011. Vishal also mentioned some impressive pipeline numbers for HANA. And the coolest newsContinue reading “SAP says HANA is ready for General Availability. What say you?”
So You Badly Want To Do Self Service BI, eh?
Every one and his neighbor wants self service BI. What does it take to get it? Is it even reasonable to expect that significant parts of BI can be self service enabled? For one, self service is loosely defined, at least in the BI world. First – no enterprise BI tool is reallyContinue reading “So You Badly Want To Do Self Service BI, eh?”