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Salesforce Presents New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data
Salesforce.com’s social enterprise is a big step forward from the strategy it talked about at last year’s Dreamforce, and is now focused helping companies build social profiles of employees and customers that can managed and augmented with information about the individuals from other social networks. [read more]
Getting Smarter About Water?
There are 326 million trillion gallons of water on the earth, however 98% of that water is undrinkable because it’s too salty. Considering that our planet’s population expected to reach eight billion by 2027, companies are starting to realize that water matters. And of course, what matters should be measured—with analytics! [read more]
Supply Chain Traceability - What's in Your T-Shirt?
Does it concern you that cotton from a t-shirt originated in Uzbekistan? You might care if reports are true that cotton harvested from this country came from forced or child labor. In fact, consumers are increasingly asking manufacturers and retailers to ensure goods and services are produced with sustainable and ethical business... [read more]
A Sustainability Storm is Brewing for BI
Another clap of thunder rumbled across the sustainability landscape recently. I received a press release from a company called CSC, which provides technology-enabled solutions and services. The press release talks about CSC’s Enterprise Compliance and Sustainability offering which collects, verifies, and distributes enterprise... [read more]
SAP’s Sustainability Dashboards
The SAP’s Sustainability Report web site provides a great example of how business intelligence can help with sustainability reporting and analysis. All public organizations will have to start providing this time of information in the future, and SAP BusinessObjects provides some great tools to do it with.Here are some of the... [read more]
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HR & Workforce Analytics Innovation Summit
When: Thu, 2012-05-24 08:00
Business Analytics Innovation Summit
When: Thu, 2012-05-24 08:00
Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference
When: Thu, 2012-05-24 12:09
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When: Fri, 2012-05-25 08:00
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When: Mon, 2012-06-18 09:00
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When: Thu, 2012-06-21 08:00
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When: Thu, 2012-06-21 08:00
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