Paul Blogs on BI

We live in a world where we do not just have easy access to more information than ever before, but where we are also bombarded with more information than we can possibly absorb. The combination of social media, the internet and smart mobile devices have provided the means for us ...

There has been a lot of confusion about this year’s ASUG BI Conference taking place October 17-20 in New Orleans, LA. Previously known as the SAP Analytics and BusinessObjects Conference (SABOC), this year it was renamed the ASUG Business Intelligence + Analytics Conference (ASUGBIA).  This was a very unfortunate renaming ...

I have been confused about SAP’s BI roadmap and strategy for many years now and so are the vast majority of SAP BusinessObjects customers that I have talked with about this topic. About four or five years ago, SAP determined that there were too many products in it’s BI portfolio ...

One of the most awe-inspiring presentations at this year’s IBIS conference was about how a government ministry is driving improved healthcare for its citizens by analyzing and visualizing data and then acting on the results. Isn’t this what Business Intelligence is all about? Analyzing and visualizing data and then taking ...

One of the many highlights of this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS 2016) was the annual Dashboard awards and while the 3 winning solutions were very different solutions they shared the fact that, once again, they were all developed in Xcelsius. It never ceases to amaze me how Xcelsius ...

Latest renaming of BI and Analytics tools by SAP, announced at Sapphire 2016 this week, is more of a complete re-branding and brings a refreshing breeze of reality to the true state of play.

So when I heard that SAP had acquired Mellmo and their Roambi solution a couple of weeks ago, it started to make

So how does a phenomenon like this, created almost 40 years ago, still draw the masses? In a recent interview

At the beginning of 2015, I wrote about the great BusinessObjects Resurgence as organizations re-strategized to either bring back BusinessObjects into their BI future plans or expand its usage. Not only has this resurgence continued but it has grown and 2016 is likely to be another banner year for the ...

Santiago Becerra, the founder of Infommersion (creators of Xcelsius) and co-founder of Mellmo (creators of Roambi), passed away last week. I had the honor of knowing this true data visualization visionary who helped revolutionize BI dashboards and inspired millions to interact with data in a whole new way. I first met ...