jamie.oswald, greg.myers3, clint.vosloo, and eric.vallo were at SAPPHIRE last week and had a chance to connect with kurt.bilafer and Alex. Kurt and Alex come to the table with a different perspective than many of us in the US community. We try and get a little more perspective about the path to BI4 for APJ customers and what the challenges are.
Tune in over at dslayer.net.
0:22 - Clint is in the house! He only came for the showers.
0:49 - Kurt Bilafer, Regional Vice president of Analytics, Asia, Pacific & Japan at SAP joins us as well.
1:00 - SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 is RTC/Ramp up ready!
1:39 - BI4 vs. Bi4.1 - Should I stay or should I go? Nah nah nuh nuh nah nah nah.
2:52 - Analytics takes front stage at SAPPHIRE and we all feel good.
3:25 - Clint says don't wait, start sandboxing BI4 now.
5:21 - Was FP3 the 4.1 we always wanted? If so, does that diminish the impact of the real 4.1?
6:50 - Go big go home - BI4 is ginormous.
7:00 - Analytics drives businesses. Fact.
7:22 - Better hooks into SAP BW and SAP HANA.
7:58 - Alex Andrenacci of Accenture in APJ joins us!
8:52 - Test test test and test more before you go.
9:26 - Clint waxes poetic or something about dam data.
10:25 - What to migrate and when?
16:40 - The opportunity to revisit how we deliver information is great. Take it.
17:11 - A network of truth is an opportunity for a bunch of users to enrich the data.
18:17 - Business needs to have a seat at the table as the migration happens to learn to take the most advantage of new capability.
19:54 - Creating awareness in technology in the new SAP BI suite tools.
22:21 - Novel idea: IT needs to redevelop it's own road show to get business user buy in on the new capabilities.
23:05 - Driving a bigger SAP Community Network via APJ? Challenge...accepted.
24:08 - Has the idea of a competency center taken shape in APJ?
25:17 - Tableau and Qlikview has taken full advantage of the need of the power user.
30:45 - Even if an org is missing a competency center, the business needs a champion in IT that gets the business.
31:36 - A google like search...we've been here before, haven't we?
32:29 - The single biggest barrier to adoption - we make things more complicated than they have to be? Is that an SAP issue or a development work product issue?
33:41 - Data is absolutely key. The universe creates user-friendly terms for complex data structures. Just sayin'.
35:15 - Interesting take - user behavior drives data quality.
36:17 - Analytics journey to ROI is dependent on data quality, tools, and more. The problem is the business has an assumption the data is already right.
39:27 - That old converation about 400 tools to solve a problem comes up again. This is a topic that needs a deeper dive.
41:04 - What is the state of tne Analytics bundles in APJ? We've already recently plugged here, but what's the scoop globally?
44:21 - Clint with a valid point - so few customers have actually heard of the bundles. Why?
45:00 - BetterBOBJ in APJ is in play. Don't miss it.
45:21 - Accenture and EV Technologies announce for the first time a strategic partnership in APJ for implementing BI4.
