The New York Business Intelligence May Meeting

This month, Joel Stambaugh from Business Objects will be joining us for Part 2 of our foray into Data Visualization tools. Joel will talk about BO's new Data Visualization product, Xcelsius and how it is positioned in concert with the rest of the Business Objects BI experience.

To recap, Scott Taylor and Nik Boman from QlikTech helped us kick off the Data Visualization Series with a presentation of QlikView. Summary of this March meetup is available here.

Format is our usual:
(7:00 - 7:45) Business Objects: Xcelsius
(7:45 - ) Open Forum

A complete Introduction to Xcelsius and Business Objects is available on our Forum.

Trends and Truths
Two Meetups ago, we began a practice of distilling Truths and Trends from our discussions. Here is what we have to date:

• Truth: People are looking for a better way to solve the same problems. Core Issues of BI are still prevalent. Recent advances in BI tech now provide better ways to deal with these Issues. QlikView is a note-worthy example of such innovation in the space.
  
• In-memory processing is Trend.
  
• RIA (AJAX) adoption and movement to web interfaces is a Trend.
  
• Truth: Data Quality is a Foundation for BI
  
• Truth: BI Tools need to consume WebServices as a datasource
  
• Truth: Killer App = functionality + price
  
• Truth: There are lots more data sources of interest than what is currently accessible on the internet
  
• Truth: Improving on what computers tend to do well does not necessarily result in value to the end-user
  
• Truth: Audio processing is more difficult than Video processing
  
• Trend: Use of Voice and Video as datasources is a new frontier. We wonder how much of it is native analysis vs metadata processing.
  
• Trend: More real-time decision-making at the hands of the user.
  
• Trend: Enterprise environment will give way to enterprise community.
  
• Trend: Web2.0 Collaborative tools are becoming more accepted in the enterprise as both the enterprises and the vendors mature
  
• Truth: There are lots more data sources of interest than what is currently accessible on the internet
  
• Truth: Improving on what computers tend to do well does not necessarily result in value to the end-user
  
• Truth: Audio processing is more difficult than Video processing
  
• Trend: Use of Voice and Video as datasources is a new frontier. We wonder how much of it is native analysis vs metadata processing
  
• Trend: More real-time decision-making at the hands of the user.
  

Will Business Objects contest or confirm our Truths and Trends? Join us on Tuesday, May 27th and help us decide.