Author – Matt Penston, Senior EPM Consultant, itelligence UK. As part of our recent Trans/4mation finance webinar series, we highlighted three areas of focus for the modern finance function. One of the areas was Predictive…
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Modern Analytics from SAP (Part 2)
Author – Anooj Behanan – Practice Director – Analytics Enterprise Data Warehouse and Strategic Insights While embedded analytics and contextual insights meet most operational reporting needs within SAP applications, the following use cases still warrant…
Modern Analytics from SAP (Part 1)
Author – Anooj Behanan – Practice Director – Analytics Digital transformation or rather digitisation has forced organisations to rethink business models, value propositions to their customers and ways and means to both create and capture…
The Why, What and How of Modern Analytics
Written by, Matt Sisley, Director of Analytics, itelligence UK The digitisation of business and increased competition on prices, services and products means information and analytics are more critical to successful business than ever. It is…
Expectations from a Modern BI Platform – SAP Analytics Cloud
I was presenting a session on SAP Analytics Cloud at the SAP Analytics Symposium that took place on 25 April 2018 and in many ways, this was the prelude for the session I will be…
Real business value can only be achieved through realising valuable business outcomes.
The applicability of the Cloud as a platform for provisioning applications and consuming services has attracted much attention over the years. Many businesses are now actively leveraging the Cloud or planning to do so in…
The “Real Time” Business
There are many critical dimensions to how businesses operate in response to the competitive pressures that they face today. This has fundamentally changed from where we were 10-15 years ago. Let’s briefly explore this: renewing…
Itelligence Analytics Summit 2017
It’s hard for me to believe but September of last year marked the 20th anniversary of my introduction to the world of Business Intelligence. It was the first day of my new job, working on the technical…
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and how it delivers “Good”
I have the privilege of working with many different businesses and each comes with its unique challenges: the datasets that need to be managed, the geographical spread of users, the need for regular and/or irregular…
The Modern Data Platform – THE ANSWER
In the first part of this Modern Data Platform blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. The blog series…