Closing the loop on Pervasive Location Analytics - an enlightening personal journey for sure!

When I started working on Google Maps deal at SAP in February of this year, I had no clue where it will end and what is next once the deal is done. I fell in love with this Location Analytics/Geo Data Visualization topic, and turned it into an opportunity to discuss this topic and also generate excitement in various different camps along the way.

Five sessions spread across three continents, 200+ attendees,1000 views and numerous downloads later, this topic became more than just a personal interest. I met great people along the way and worked with very smart and driven people to co-present from the likes of Ryan from Centigon Solutions, Nimish from FreshDirect and Brendan from ThinkSmart Technologies. (See links to slides and session evaluation below)

A proud moment arrived this morning when an alert from SlideShare popped up indicating that this topic is hot on Facebook and as a result this topic is being put on SlideShare home page. Wow!


Pervasive Location Analytics: The Next Frontier to Fall in The Enterprise Software?

Session Evaluations Results

Thank you - my next two blogs will be presenting my thoughts on Moblie Analytics and Agile BI - two topics I have spent significant amount of time from strategy, market, customer, competition and product point of view.

Pervasive Location Analytics − The Next Frontier to Fall In the Enterprise Software?

Geo-location and spatial intelligence is the strategic turning point for business analytics and BI. Location has become an essential part of the enterprise data and increasing number of enterprises have geo-coded their location data to build location-aware application to drive location-aware decisions. For example, by overlaying the foreclosure data, income data, and the data from its mortgage portfolio on a geo-chart, a regional mortgage bank assesses the risk of its mortgage portfolio and decides to take corrective actions. A fast food company uses the demographics data, the latest census data, and the historical sales of its stores to determine the location of its new restaurant. 

Slides from SAP TechEd 2011 Las Vegas - http://goo.gl/etkvI