DSLayer Interview: Jayne Landry, Saskia Battersby and Blair Wheadon

In our regular Diversified Semantic Layer interview series helping you get to know people in our community, also known as ‘Unstructured Geek Analytics’, I took a chance to sit down with:

• Jayne Landry – Global Vice President & Solution Manager for SAP Analytics
• Saskia Battersby – General Manager BI Solution Management – Classic BOBJ
• Blair Wheadon – General Manager BI Solution Management – SAP ERP & BW Customers

We were together in Melbourne, Australia, for a Q&A panel about Business Intelligence, with SAP customers Officeworks and KPMG and fellow SAP Mentor Paul Hawking.  You can listen to the interview here http://dslayer.net/ugeeks/view/171-jayne-saskia-blair, or feel free to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Key questions in the interview:

1:00 – What interesting thing did you take away from the panel discussion?

2:21 – What current area of the BI portfolio is exciting for you?

4:38 – What’s your favourite buzz word right now?

6:58 – What’s your biggest screw-up at work that you are allowed to tell us about?

10:00 – What do you do for fun in your spare time?

Thanks again to Jayne, Saskia and Blair for giving me some of their time to be interviewed.