The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

by John Schweitzer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Analytics, SAP

Earlier this week, I kicked off the Analytics campus at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando and was thrilled to talk about SAP’s “Decision Revolution.” More than ever before, SAP is focused on changing how our customers make better, more informed decisions. Every day, companies are faced with decisions about which products to launch, how to meet regulatory requirements and how to take their operations mobile, just to name a few. That’s where driving an analytics culture and the Decision Revolution come into play.

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by James Fisher, Vice President Marketing, Analytics, SAP

The analytics team I work with are scattered all over the globe in different time zones. Other than for a few late evening calls, it generally works out well, mostly thanks to technology and social software that makes collaboration much easier these days.

Collaboration software moved on apace yesterday when SAP announced the availability of new analytics capabilities, based upon the market-leading analytics solutions from SAP, in the collaborative decision-making application SAP StreamWork. SAP leads the way in both markets, but now we’ve brought them together so that users can upload, explore, analyze, and visualize data directly within SAP StreamWork – and collaborate with teams no matter where they are.

Surely, it’s the perfect match. Decision making en masse, in a collaborative environment with access to trusted data. I think so.

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This week’s Mobile BI Minute gives a demo of how you can share a report snapshot with SAP BusinessObjects Mobile into SAP StreamWork, SAP’s enterprise collaboration tool.

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