
May is a busy month for us here at SAP. At our annual conference, SAPPHIRE NOW, we pull out all the stops to guarantee an amazing experience for our customers. This year was no exception. In this month’s issue we have brought together the highlights for BI at the event. Whether you were not able to make the trip to Orlando this year, or were too busy to see and absorb everything, we have the inside scoop and recap from the event.
As the release of BI 4.1 was a major event at SAPPHIRE we are going to build on that topic next issue as we provide key articles on 4.1 and upgrading.
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 is officially over. Did you enjoy the live country music of 3 Grammy winners, Bonnie Raitt, Martina McBride, and Alan Jackson? It was a great show at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando with an amazing number of customer sessions, microforums and great product demos across SAP’s entire analytics portfolio.
On May 10, SAP announced the availability of SAP Lumira, the next step in the company's self-service business intelligence (BI) vision. Formerly known as SAP Visual Intelligence software, SAP Lumira extends beyond the desktop to the cloud and enables users to visualize any amount of data in real time in a repeatable, self-service way, accelerate decision-making with fact-based answers to business questions and increase self-service data usage without adding to the IT workload
It was a great event to launch this much-anticipated release. We have pulled together a listing of key blogs on the topic – to bring you up to speed.
Centigon Solutions used their expertise in mobile web apps, HTML5, and their new Indoor Mapping technology to take the first step to change how attendees experience SAPPHIRE NOW. They built PrizeFinder to help attendees present in Orlando locate the prizes in the partner area.
A key message for the BI team at 2013 SAPPHIRE NOW, Orlando, was upgrade now! Many customers had questions regarding why they should upgrade, and showed interested in knowing what they would need for the process, .
Read Saskia Battersby’s recap of the event and her advice regarding upgrades. »
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SAPPHIRE NOW was an inspiring showcase of how our customers are using SAP technology to run their businesses better, faster, and simpler. Bellow a couple of noteworthy recorded sessions from SAPPHIRE NOW’s OnDemand listings:
Learn how Healtlhcare providers
have been using analytics to improve quality in patient-care activities and increase productivity overall operational
performance.
(Jump to 15:50 to hear some truly inspirational ‘Ah-ha’ moments obtained through the use of SAP BI)
Citigroup Inc and MolsonCoors both share how Business Intelligence and predicative analytics help their organization see patterns in their data.
Sigma Aldrich, a leading source of health science related products, illustrates two vital use cases where SAP Business Intelligence and SAP Lumira were used to answer their business questions.
In addition, visit the SAP BusinessObjects Youtube channel to watch short, on the spot SAPPHIRE NOW interviews with our customers.
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June 5, 2013: Insights Like Never Before: Bring Your Own iPad Webcast
May 23, 2013: The 2013 Guide to Mobile BI Technology from SAP BusinessObjects and Social Media Analytics – Webinar
May 28, 2013: Business Intelligence Innovations for Organizations with Diverse Data Sources and Applications – Webinar
June 11–13, 2013: SAP BI 2013 – Amsterdam
June 11 2013: Plotting an Analytical Course – From the Sea of Big Data to the Land of Insight –Webinar
June 12, 2013: The BI & Analytics How To Guide for Competitive Advantage - Webinar
June 13, 2013: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Migration Webinar Series
June 17, 2013: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 "Sneak Peek" Briefing - Melbourne, June 18th in Syndey, and June 20th in Brisbane
June 18, 2013: SAP Lumira, Bringing Self-Service Data Analysis to Business Users - Webinar
June 19, 2013: Network of Truth – Introducing SAP Lumira – Webinar
June 19, 2013: A Winning Strategy for Automating FCPA Compliance- Webinar
June 20, 2013: Guide to Analytics Functionality Embedded Within SAP Business Suite and Benefits of Moving to the SA... – Webinar
June 20, 2013: SAP BusinessObects BI4.1 "Sneak Peek" Briefing - Auckland, New Zealand
June 25, 2013: - Transform Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) with Mobile Technology - Webinar
June 25, 2013: - Transform Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) with Mobile Technology - Webinar
June 26, 2013 – An SAP Customer Success Story – in the Words of Our Customer – on the Innovative Use of BI and Analy... - Webinar
September 3-5, 2013: SAPinsider 2013 – Singapore
March 2013: Spring Forward - Innovation
January 2013: New Years Resolution
December 2012: Year End - Dashboards
November 2012: Upgrade to BI 4
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