http://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/251906424 SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by Richard Fahey © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP.com en-us http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/15022 The new US Federal Government IT Dashboard is starting to spread much needed light on the performance of Government IT projects. Displaying data in easy to understand dashboards is key to one of the central tenets of Business Intelligence i.e. to enable faster and more accurate decision making through the contextualization and visualization of data trends. Richard Fahey Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Public Sector en-us 2009-07-21T13:57-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14439 The eagerly awaited data.gov site launched last week, ushering in a new area of openness and transparency throughout the US federal government. Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra announced the site as a platform to democratize government data by stimulating the creation of innovative applications and visualizations. It's now up to the public to find tools to interrogate and make sense from this data. Is BusinessObjects Explorer onDemand up to this task? Richard Fahey Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Professional Services, Public Sector en-us 2009-05-25T06:11-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14028 Question: What's flexible, efficient, auditable, transparent and should come with every SAP implementation or improvement project? Answer: well the title gives it away really. Wiki. Richard Fahey Organizational Change Management, Professional Services en-us 2009-05-14T14:32-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/13047 What does your desk say about who you are, and how you work? If the most powerful man in the world can work without a PC, then why do some of us need two? Richard Fahey Professional Services en-us 2009-02-09T14:15-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12735 The internet provides a plethora of applications and mashups that visualize raw data in new and exciting ways. Whereas once representing enterprise data using colorful graphs may have sufficed, now if visualizations don't quickly tell a story their unlikely to be effective. Richard Fahey Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Knowledge Management (KM), Visual Composer en-us 2009-01-08T15:25-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12567 Increasing numbers of SAP projects have some form of offshore element. Whether this is during development, testing or support, it is critical to understand effective ways of working with offshore colleagues. Richard Fahey Beyond SAP, Knowledge Management (KM), Organizational Change Management, Professional Services en-us 2008-12-22T14:34-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12376 New Web2.0 technologies enable greater interaction and accessibility with documents of various formats (PDF, PPT, Word etc). These features provide rich user interfaces and the ability for greater contextualizing of documents. Richard Fahey Emerging Technologies, Knowledge Management (KM), Professional Services, SAP Developer Network en-us 2008-12-14T01:53-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12304 The tools used by the Open-source Software development community can be utilized to enable more efficient people centric SAP projects. My top 5 Free Open-Source applications are those which allow for - and are centered around - greater transparency, collaboration and participation. Richard Fahey Emerging Technologies, Knowledge Management (KM), Open Source, Organizational Change Management, Professional Services en-us 2008-12-03T00:00-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12231 Gathering and defining requirements can be a painful and time consuming process. Using tools such as email and word documents to manage group collaboration can be inefficient and costly. Wikis provide a platform for mass collaboration, leading to a more transparent and visible requirements gathering process. Richard Fahey Emerging Technologies, ERP, Knowledge Management (KM), Organizational Change Management, Professional Services en-us 2008-11-26T23:56-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/12062 The Public sector free data movement is challenging many old perceptions as to the value and usefulness of back office information. Recent competitions have allowed the public to build applications creating unexpected visualizations of government data for the benefit of all. Richard Fahey Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Knowledge Management (KM), Public Sector, SAP NetWeaver Platform en-us 2008-11-17T15:57-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2008 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP