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One of the challenges in a world of large enterprises, especially those composed of acquisitions, …

Teradata recently launched their TBIO (Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer) product.  Martin Willcox from Teradata has a little …

A few days ago, I commented on an article about Oracle's shopping spree and someone …

A little over a week ago, I wrote about how Teradata is now supporting direct connectivity …

I was reading a very interesting opinion on sandhill.com by Steven Janisse entitled "Oracle's Mergers …

Well, it is now official, Teradata has launched their Teradata OLAP Connector product which allows …

I note that Window’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit has been an on-going saga for …

I was talking to a customer recently and they were telling me they have a very …

Interesting that Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 users can "downgrade" to Windows XP for …

Interesting news yesterday about EMC's acquisition of data warehouse appliance company GreenPlum.  GreenPlum had of …

SAP's pending acquisition of Sybase for 6 billion dollars has a lot of people talking.  …

I was at Sapphire Orlando last week and there was a lot of interesting things …

Boris Evelson had an interesting blog entry about the "BI Implications Of SAP-Sybase Deal".  You …

At the Oracle Collaborate conference last week, I attended a session presented by Ray Roccaforte …

We have had a number of customers try out our MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP …

I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer at TDWI where he interviewed the …

Whoa!  At the Gartner BI Summit, they suggested we "Wave the white flag on using …

In the database warehouse/BI/analytics space, there is a lot of talk about in-memory technology and …

I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer @ TDWI entitled "Studies in Scale: …

As I am catching up on my reading after the Olympics, I came across an …

Now that the Winter Olympics in Vancouver are over, I can focus more on work.  …

There are a lot of people who currently use the Excel Spreadsheet Add-in for Oracle …

I was reading an interesting article by Larry Barrett about how Oracle's series of acquisitions …

I just got the Oracle OLAP Newsletter for January 2010 and we got a nice …

Over the last year, we have been doing a fair bit of work with Oracle 11g …

Now that our MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP 11g is released, the team has been …

Jenna Wortham wrote an interesting article that Apple's AppStore is changing the game with mobile software.  …

I found a nice blog by Larry Dignan on Teradata's Partners Conference which is worth …

Baseline magazine had an interesting article on Google entitled "How Google Works" http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Infrastructure/How-Google-Works-1/?kc=BLBLBEMNL11272009STR1.  This is …

Mike Vizard at CTOEdge wrote a nice piece about what Simba has done for Oracle …

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 was quite busy for me.  We jointly with Oracle launched our MDX …

I was reading Steve Ballmer's latest email entitled "The New Efficiency" (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2009/09-29NewEfficiency.mspx) in which he basically …

According to a blog posting by Thomas Zurek at SAP (http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13566%3Fpage%3Dlast%26x-maxdepth%3D0), accessing BW via OLAP …

The team at Simba has been very busy working on our MDX Provider for Oracle …

Microsoft Gemini is now available.  You can get more information at the Gemini team blog: …

Curt Monash posted an interesting entry on his blog about Netezza's new TwinFin family of …

I was reading an interesting article at Information Week about BI software sales in 2008: …

IBM's announcement this week of its intention to acquire SPSS was very interesting.  After all …

I have always thought that SAP's Hasso Plattner is a good public speaker.  This year …

The Technical Preview for Office 2010 is now out and there are a lot of …

I was recently poking around to see what IBM is doing in the MDX query …

Finally, ODBC 3.80 is here!  According to Pak-Ming Cheung from Microsoft, “We’re excited to announce …

Brad Peters wrote an interesting article entitled "On-Demand Business Intelligence Takes Off" at http://www.information-management.com/specialreports/2009_150/business_intelligence_bi-10015655-1.html.  Interesting …

Larry Sackett, who is writing a book about SAP BW and the MDX query language http://www.sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H3066&shoppingcart=002, recently posted …

At Simba, we have a SDK to build a custom ODBC driver.  We have been …

At Sapphire this year, the big announcement from SAP was the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer.  Since …

I was reading an interesting little timeline on eWeek about how Oracle ended up acquiring …

Not sure if you saw this… http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx  Some good details about the next version of …

I was at the IBM Cognos Partner Forum earlier today and there was a keynote …

We have been getting very good responses to our Beta for the MDX query language …

Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote a really good analysis of the SAP and Teradata partnership …

I saw this article entitled "Microsoft to bring BI to the cloud" http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?sub=true&id=53024. Not sure what …

I was reading an interesting article about the SAP / Teradata partnership entitled " SAP …

The news today is that SAP and Teradata are partnering to support SAP BW on …

Wow!  What interesting news this morning about Oracle buying Sun.  Four very interesting things here: 1. …

Donald Farmer from Microsoft speaks to Stephen Swoyer at TDWI about Microsoft's Project Gemini.  More …

We have launched the beta of the MDX provider for Oracle 11g OLAP Option.  This …

I am at the SAP BI and Portals conference this week.  I attended a session …

I am at the SAP BI and Portals conference in Orlando this week.  I usually …

Lou Agosta wrote a nice article entitled "Getting Started with DW Appliances" http://esj.com/Articles/2009/03/18/Getting-Started-with-DW-Appliances.aspx?Page=1 and I thought I …

I have been a fan of data warehouse appliances and liked the following article by …

We continue to make good progress on the MDX provider for Oracle OLAP.  The expected …

I wrote a while ago that ODBC continues to be a very important data connectivity …

Yesterday, Simba announced the following: "Simba Technologies to Showcase Native Microsoft® Excel® 2007 Connectivity to …

Another thing I found interesting at the Teradata Partners conference was something called "multi-temperature" data …

At the Teradata Partners conference last month, Teradata was showing off their family of data …

I was reading Nigel Pendse's take on Gemini http://www.olapreport.com/Comment_Gemini.htm.  Gemini does push more users to …

One of the sessions I attended at Oracle OpenWorld was titled "Oracle's Strategic OLAP Technologies" …

Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise wrote a good piece about Microsoft's Kilimanjaro, Gemini, and Madison …

I am here this week at the Second Annual Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle.  The …

At Oracle OpenWorld, I attended a session by William Endress and Martin Gubar entitled "Using …

Further thoughs from Oracle OpenWorld last week… I went to a talk by Andy Mendelsohn …

At OpenWorld last week, one of the highlights was of course, the keynote by Larry …

Lots of new stuff in the data warehouse appliance space.  Teradata just announced the Teradata …

I believe that Microsoft continues to get more and more serious about the BI space …