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Business Objects Summit Q&A
08.13.2008
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Sandy Kemsley
At the conclusion of Business Object's Influencer Summit yesterday, Jonathan Becher hosted a wrap-up Q&A with Doug Merritt, Marge Breya and Sanjay Poonen. Rather than attributing quotes to each executive, I've consolidated the responses on five topics:

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Cindi Howson
Business Objects Says 'Look Beyond BI'
08.13.2008
"It's a case where 1+1=3." Speaking at the first-ever Business Objects Influencer Summit in Boston this week, this is how Sanjay Poonen, SVP and GM of Performance Optimization Applications, explained a recent increase in BI revenues at the company since it became a unit of SAP... A key message was not to think of Business Objects as only a BI vendor, but rather, as a vendor that provides everything to help companies link strategy to execution.

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Business Objects Keynote: BI Meets Process
08.13.2008
blog author
Sandy Kemsley
I was in rainy Boston yesterday at the Business Objects Influencer Summit... The event included a very process-oriented message (which explains why I'm here): using business intelligence to drive process efficiency, improve insight to close the gap between strategy and execution, and add flexibility to create new business processes that align operations to strategy.

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Doug Henschen
Five Key Questions About the IBM-ILog Deal
07.29.2008
With apologies to Gertrude Stein, there's not enough "there" there in the business rules management system market, what with only a handful of players, but yesterday's announcement by IBM that it will acquire ILog will certainly spark aftershocks. I came across a few particularly keen questions from a former industry insider...

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PROCESS MANAGEMENT INSIGHT

How to Get to Better Planning and Budgeting
June 1, 2008
by Ventana Research
A new Ventana Research report finds that most companies are falling short on the basics of performance management. Here are five sets of diagnostic questions as well as best practices for broader, more responsive and more effective planning and budgeting.

Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
May 19, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

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Oracle Reports More Than 23,000 Downloads Of Its iPhone Apps
While Apple iPhone apps have a small presence in the business world, IT execs at Disney, Genentech, and Kraft are endorsing the iPhone.

IBM To Acquire Software Maker ILOG For $340 Million
IBM said the acquisition will strengthen its portfolio of so-called business process management software.

Cast Iron Beefs Up Data Integration Appliance
The iA4000 is an upgrade and replacement of the iA3000 appliance. New data migration capabilities include data conversion and profiling tools to accelerate software-as-a-service use.

Metastorm Upgrades Business Process Discovery Tool
Discovery Version 6.4 introduces wireless data collection, better reporting capabilities and tighter integration with Metastorm's modeling tool ProVision.

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