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  • MDX Query Language and SAP BusinessObjects Roadmap

    MDX Query Language and SAP BusinessObjects Roadmap

    June 25, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    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 …

  • ODBC Driver for Microsoft HealthVault

    ODBC Driver for Microsoft HealthVault

    June 10, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • SAP Sapphire and the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

    SAP Sapphire and the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

    May 31, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Timeline on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun

    Timeline on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun

    May 24, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2

    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2

    May 13, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • IBM Cognos Partner Forum

    IBM Cognos Partner Forum

    May 11, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • MDX query language for Oracle 11g OLAP update

    MDX query language for Oracle 11g OLAP update

    May 7, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • A really good analysis of the SAP and Teradata partnership

    A really good analysis of the SAP and Teradata partnership

    May 6, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • BI in the Cloud?

    BI in the Cloud?

    May 4, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    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 …

  • More on SAP / Teradata partnership

    More on SAP / Teradata partnership

    April 28, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • SAP and Teradata partnership

    SAP and Teradata partnership

    April 27, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Oracle buys Sun

    Oracle buys Sun

    April 20, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft’s Project Gemini

    Microsoft’s Project Gemini

    April 1, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft Excel pivot tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    Microsoft Excel pivot tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    April 1, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft Excel pivot tables and SAP NetWeaver BW for free!

    Microsoft Excel pivot tables and SAP NetWeaver BW for free!

    March 26, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • SAP BI and Portals Conference – Keynote

    SAP BI and Portals Conference – Keynote

    March 25, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Data Warehouse Appliances

    Data Warehouse Appliances

    March 19, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    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 …

  • Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances Revisited

    Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances Revisited

    March 12, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • MDX Query Language support for Oracle OLAP 11g

    MDX Query Language support for Oracle OLAP 11g

    February 10, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • ODBC 3.8

    ODBC 3.8

    February 2, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Excel Pivot Tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    Excel Pivot Tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    November 20, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • More about Teradata

    More about Teradata

    November 11, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances

    Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances

    November 10, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • More on Microsoft’s Gemini

    More on Microsoft’s Gemini

    November 6, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Oracle Database OLAP Option vs Oracle Hyperion Essbase

    Oracle Database OLAP Option vs Oracle Hyperion Essbase

    October 30, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    One of the sessions I attended at Oracle OpenWorld was titled “Oracle’s Strategic OLAP Technologies” …

  • More on the Microsoft BI Conference

    More on the Microsoft BI Conference

    October 8, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft Gemini and Kilimanjaro

    Microsoft Gemini and Kilimanjaro

    October 7, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Oracle Database – OLAP Option

    Oracle Database – OLAP Option

    October 5, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • More on Oracle OpenWorld

    More on Oracle OpenWorld

    October 1, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Oracle OpenWorld and the Oracle Database Machine

    Oracle OpenWorld and the Oracle Database Machine

    September 29, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • More on Data Warehousing

    More on Data Warehousing

    September 18, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Microsoft Excel is a BI Product?

    Microsoft Excel is a BI Product?

    August 21, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

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

  • Data Warehousing and Ad Hoc Queries

    Data Warehousing and Ad Hoc Queries

    August 20, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    It is interesting to see how various vendors believe that data warehouses and data warehouse …

  • Good article on Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro…

    Good article on Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro…

    July 31, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote a good piece on Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro entitled “Analysis: …

  • Microsoft’s Data Warehouse Appliance Play

    Microsoft’s Data Warehouse Appliance Play

    July 25, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I was thinking more about the announcement yesterday that Microsoft is acquiring DATAllegro.  How will …

  • Consolidation in the Data Warehouse Appliance Space

    Consolidation in the Data Warehouse Appliance Space

    July 24, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Wow!  We sort of expected to see some consolidation in the data warehouse appliance space …

  • The “last 18 inches”…

    The “last 18 inches”…

    July 16, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading the article entitled “Visualize This: A Fresh Perspective on Business Intelligence Systems” …

  • Googlenomics

    Googlenomics

    June 30, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    An amazing fact that I was reading, “Google wrings $235,000 of profit from the work …

  • How will Cloud Computing change BI and Data Warehousing?

    How will Cloud Computing change BI and Data Warehousing?

    June 30, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    This is a question I have been pondering for some time.  How will the Cloud …

  • SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP BW) and Microsoft Excel 2007 – MDX Connectivity

    SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP BW) and Microsoft Excel 2007 – MDX Connectivity

    June 16, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I was poking around the SAP Developer Network (http://www.sdn.sap.com) website this weekend and found a …

  • What do you think a Data Warehouse Appliance is?

    What do you think a Data Warehouse Appliance is?

    June 15, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    A recent TDWI survey asked people “What do you think a data warehouse appliance is?”  …

  • A Major Shift in the Data Warehouse Space…

    A Major Shift in the Data Warehouse Space…

    May 30, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I have been a fan of the Data Warehouse Appliance for some time.  The concepts, …

  • IBM Cubing Services – MDX and ODBO – Excel Pivot Tables

    IBM Cubing Services – MDX and ODBO – Excel Pivot Tables

    May 29, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    In case you missed it, on May 6, IBM announced support for OLE DB for …

  • Teradata and the Data Warehouse Appliance

    Teradata and the Data Warehouse Appliance

    May 28, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Teradata has always been the big kahuna of the big database.  In the data warehouse …

  • Database as a Service vs Cloud Databases

    Database as a Service vs Cloud Databases

    May 25, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    This week in Intelligent Enterprise, there is an article by Donald Feinberg of Gartner that …

  • Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets – Panorama Did It!

    Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets – Panorama Did It!

    May 22, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I wrote a while back about Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets.  Well, I have seen …

  • SAP Sapphire and Patrick Lencioni – continued

    SAP Sapphire and Patrick Lencioni – continued

    May 16, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I read Patrick’s book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” on the flight home from …

  • SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA)

    SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA)

    May 14, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I am still amazed at the potential for the SAP BIA product.  There has been …

  • Business Objects Polestar and SAP BIA

    Business Objects Polestar and SAP BIA

    May 11, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

      During the keynotes at Sapphire, there was a lot of discussion about the new …

  • SAP Sapphire – Patrick Lencioni

    SAP Sapphire – Patrick Lencioni

    May 5, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    The first official day of Sapphire was very busy.  They main keynotes were Patrick Lencioni …

  • SAP Sapphire – SAP and Business Objects

    SAP Sapphire – SAP and Business Objects

    May 5, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I am at Sapphire 2008 this week and yesterday I attended the Jumpstart session entitled …

  • SAP’s BI Chief Juggles Independence, Integration

    SAP’s BI Chief Juggles Independence, Integration

    April 7, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    InfoWorld has published a very interesting interview with John Schwarz, the former CEO of Business …

  • Whither Essbase?

    Whither Essbase?

    April 3, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I always enjoyed the Hyperion Solutions Conference. One of the things I enjoyed at Solutions …

  • Nine Business Intelligence Vendors to Watch

    Nine Business Intelligence Vendors to Watch

    April 2, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Thomas Wailgum takes “a look at the leading BI vendors’ strengths, weaknesses and strategies for …

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI

    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI

    March 31, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    A few people have asked me about what’s coming up in the next version of …

  • Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets?

    Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets?

    March 28, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading about this in eWeek (http://www.midmarket.eweek.com/c/a/News/Google-Offering-Free-BI-for-Spreadsheets/).  This sounds interesting.  I have not used …

  • The OLAP Report

    The OLAP Report

    March 24, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I had an opportunity to dive into the latest OLAP Report this weekend. In the …

  • If Larry Ellison was running Microsoft, would he buy Yahoo?

    If Larry Ellison was running Microsoft, would he buy Yahoo?

    March 17, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    That is a very interesting question that I never thought to ask myself. However, when …

  • SAP’s Business Objects Road Map

    SAP’s Business Objects Road Map

    March 10, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I saw this pdf slide presentation on SAP’s Business Objects road map last week and …

  • The MDX Query Language

    The MDX Query Language

    February 29, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    I came across an interesting blog by Dejan Sarka, where he talks about the MDX …

  • Newer Data Warehouse Appliance Players

    Newer Data Warehouse Appliance Players

    February 28, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    The article entitled “BI Industry Outlook: Busy and Bright” by Stephen Swoyer http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=8813 is an …

  • IBM and Cognos

    IBM and Cognos

    February 14, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Now that Cognos is part of IBM, I am curious what IBM’s strategy is. Stephen …

  • SAP and Business Objects

    SAP and Business Objects

    February 11, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Since Simba is known for our data connectivity expertise, I get a lot of questions …

  • Microsoft Excel 2007 works natively with SAP BW

    Microsoft Excel 2007 works natively with SAP BW

    January 30, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Here is a link to a blog post from Thomas Zurek at SAP: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/8483 Thomas …

  • SAP / Business Objects Acquisition

    SAP / Business Objects Acquisition

    January 18, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    Well, it is finally official; SAP owns Business Objects.  Congratulations to both companies.  I recently …

  • 2007 Reflection and Industry / BI Predictions For The Year Ahead

    2007 Reflection and Industry / BI Predictions For The Year Ahead

    January 15, 2008 by Amyn Rajan

    When I reflect back on 2007, it was certainly a year of change in the …

  • More on Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

    More on Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

    November 28, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote an interesting take on Gartner Inc’s latest Data Warehousing Magic …

  • Oracle OpenWorld

    Oracle OpenWorld

    November 21, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I attended the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco last week. It was very interesting. …

  • Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

    Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

    November 16, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading the Gartner Report on “Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, …

  • ODBC Rocks

    ODBC Rocks

    November 7, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I read the article entitled “ODBC Rocks” on the CoDe Magazine website and I wanted …

  • Business Objects Insight 2007

    Business Objects Insight 2007

    October 31, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I just got back from the Business Objects Insight Conference and wanted to talk about …

  • MDX – History and Evolution

    MDX – History and Evolution

    October 24, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I’d like to highlight some MDX history, specifically how it has been adopted by many …

  • Why build an ODBC Driver?

    Why build an ODBC Driver?

    September 24, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I often get asked by people as to why you would want to build an …

  • Java and XMLA?  You Bet!

    Java and XMLA? You Bet!

    August 28, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    I have had a number of questions recently about Java and XMLA.  People have asked …

  • What’s Happening with XML for Analysis (XMLA)

    What’s Happening with XML for Analysis (XMLA)

    July 30, 2007 by Amyn Rajan

    Recently a lot of people have asked me about XML for Analysis (XMLA) and what …

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