The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Thanks to the wild popularity of smartphones such as iPhone and Blackberry, tablets such as iPad, and the apps that work with it, we have become the mobile generation, increasing using mobile devices for accessing the information we consume in our daily lives.   Market research supports this shift – according to a recent report by Gartner, worldwide smartphone shipments in Q2, 2011 grew by 74% over the same quarter last year to 107 million units.  (more…)

The scope of BI solution is pretty broad and includes reporting, dashboards, advanced query and analysis, data integration and data quality, as well as a number of analytic applications such as planning and budgeting (which fall outside of the scope of BI, but are natural extensions). With limited IT resources, small IT budgets and typically a difficulty for the operational and executive staff to take on multiple new initiatives simultaneously, how should SME customers take on BI projects? (more…)

Nowadays, we all have our favorite shopping, gaming, eatery recommending mobile apps on our mobile device in our pocket. As we grow reliance on these apps, we start to wish that we could use some cool apps during our work day. How about a cool app enables us track and analyze our sales pipeline? And how about a cool app lets the marketing team perform a deep dive on best lead generation campaigns executed in the past 6 months?

There are lots of mobile BI apps out there. Do you know, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile app is rated as top 10 iPad apps by PC World? (more…)

I’ve often talked about the fact that the sheer number of SAP’s small and midsize customers (SMEs) is a well kept secret – some 80% of our 112,000 customers are SMEs. Recognizing this, we’ve built a significant presence at SAP’s premier customer event – SAPPHIRE NOW — over the last few years. The SME campus in Orlando this past May was extremely well attended, with customers of all sizes exploring solutions either for themselves (SMEs) or for their subsidiaries (LEs) and market watchers recognizing depth and breadth of our solutions as well as the importance of this segment for SAP.

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Have you ever walked down the street only to narrowly miss being run over by someone so engrossed in their smartphone that they were in their own world? Okay, happens everyday – especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I used to think, how many dancing cats YouTube videos can these people watch!? (more…)