Mark Smith's Analyst Perspectives

RIM Has a BlackBerry and PlayBook for Business

Posted by Mark Smith on 24 May 2011

At its BlackBerry World conference earlier this month, RIM promoted its own tablet computer to challenge other providers’ tablet offerings. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which was unveiled at the beginning of 2011, addresses the growing demand for business mobility – a factor I noted as one of the five key business technology innovations of this year.

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Topics: Social Media, Google, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Playbook, RIM, Smart Phones, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Business Mobility, CIO, Cloud Computing, Mobility, Business Performance Management (BPM), Customer Performance Management (CPM), Information Applications (IA), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Sybase. Mobile Industry, Tablets, Workforce Performance Management (WPM), Digital Technology

The New Mobile SAP Evolves Stronger from Sybase Investment

Posted by Mark Smith on 20 May 2011

At the SAPPHIRE NOW annual conference, (Twitter: #SAPPHIRENOW) the advantage of the mobile technology SAP gained through its acquisition of Sybase is becoming evident. In a blog before the conference I touched on the importance of mobility to the company’s future. From walking around, assessing keynotes and sessions and talking to companies using SAP, it seems that the big bet that SAP made on mobility is paying off.

One year ago at this annual conference SAP announced that it would enlist the...

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Topics: SAP, Sustainability, Google, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Smart Phones, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Business Mobility, CIO, Cloud Computing, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Mobility, Business Performance Management (BPM), Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Sybase. Mobile Industry, Tablets, Workforce Performance Management (WPM), Digital Technology

Roambi Innovates Mobile Industry with Simpler Information and Analytics

Posted by Mark Smith on 20 May 2011

To maintain a productive workforce, businesses need to be able to put information in front of users at every level, from executives to front-line managers. Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets can provide analytics and business intelligence (BI), but so far this market niche has been dominated by publishing dashboards and reports that conform to the limits of mobile platforms. Analytics and BI software developers usually opt to publish charts and tables to Web pages on a...

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Topics: SAP, Google, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Smart Phones, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Business Mobility, CIO, Cloud Computing, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Mobility, Business Performance Management (BPM), Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Sybase. Mobile Industry, Tablets, Workforce Performance Management (WPM), Digital Technology

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