Blogs

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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