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MDX Query Language and SAP BusinessObjects Roadmap
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 …
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ODBC Driver for Microsoft HealthVault
At Simba, we have a SDK to build a custom ODBC driver. We have been …
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SAP Sapphire and the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
At Sapphire this year, the big announcement from SAP was the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Since …
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Timeline on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun
I was reading an interesting little timeline on eWeek about how Oracle ended up acquiring …
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2
Not sure if you saw this… http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx Some good details about the next version of …
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IBM Cognos Partner Forum
I was at the IBM Cognos Partner Forum earlier today and there was a keynote …
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MDX query language for Oracle 11g OLAP update
We have been getting very good responses to our Beta for the MDX query language …
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A really good analysis of the SAP and Teradata partnership
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote a really good analysis of the SAP and Teradata partnership …
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BI in the Cloud?
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 …
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More on SAP / Teradata partnership
I was reading an interesting article about the SAP / Teradata partnership entitled ” SAP …
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SAP and Teradata partnership
The news today is that SAP and Teradata are partnering to support SAP BW on …
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Oracle buys Sun
Wow! What interesting news this morning about Oracle buying Sun. Four very interesting things here: 1. …
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Microsoft’s Project Gemini
Donald Farmer from Microsoft speaks to Stephen Swoyer at TDWI about Microsoft’s Project Gemini. More …
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Microsoft Excel pivot tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option
We have launched the beta of the MDX provider for Oracle 11g OLAP Option. This …
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Microsoft Excel pivot tables and SAP NetWeaver BW for free!
I am at the SAP BI and Portals conference this week. I attended a …
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SAP BI and Portals Conference – Keynote
I am at the SAP BI and Portals conference in Orlando this week. I …
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Data Warehouse Appliances
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 …
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Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances Revisited
I have been a fan of data warehouse appliances and liked the following article by …
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MDX Query Language support for Oracle OLAP 11g
We continue to make good progress on the MDX provider for Oracle OLAP. The expected …
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ODBC 3.8
I wrote a while ago that ODBC continues to be a very important data connectivity …
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Excel Pivot Tables and Oracle 11g OLAP Option
Yesterday, Simba announced the following: “Simba Technologies to Showcase Native Microsoft® Excel® 2007 Connectivity to …
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More about Teradata
Another thing I found interesting at the Teradata Partners conference was something called “multi-temperature” data …
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Teradata Data Warehouse Appliances
At the Teradata Partners conference last month, Teradata was showing off their family of data …
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More on Microsoft’s Gemini
I was reading Nigel Pendse’s take on Gemini http://www.olapreport.com/Comment_Gemini.htm. Gemini does push more users to …
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Oracle Database OLAP Option vs Oracle Hyperion Essbase
One of the sessions I attended at Oracle OpenWorld was titled “Oracle’s Strategic OLAP Technologies” …
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More on the Microsoft BI Conference
Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise wrote a good piece about Microsoft’s Kilimanjaro, Gemini, and Madison …
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Microsoft Gemini and Kilimanjaro
I am here this week at the Second Annual Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle. The …
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Oracle Database – OLAP Option
At Oracle OpenWorld, I attended a session by William Endress and Martin Gubar entitled “Using …
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More on Oracle OpenWorld
Further thoughs from Oracle OpenWorld last week… I went to a talk by Andy Mendelsohn …
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Oracle OpenWorld and the Oracle Database Machine
At OpenWorld last week, one of the highlights was of course, the keynote by Larry …
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More on Data Warehousing
Lots of new stuff in the data warehouse appliance space. Teradata just announced the Teradata …
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Microsoft Excel is a BI Product?
I believe that Microsoft continues to get more and more serious about the BI space …
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Data Warehousing and Ad Hoc Queries
It is interesting to see how various vendors believe that data warehouses and data warehouse …
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Good article on Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro…
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote a good piece on Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro entitled “Analysis: …
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Microsoft’s Data Warehouse Appliance Play
I was thinking more about the announcement yesterday that Microsoft is acquiring DATAllegro. How will …
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Consolidation in the Data Warehouse Appliance Space
Wow! We sort of expected to see some consolidation in the data warehouse appliance space …
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The “last 18 inches”…
I was reading the article entitled “Visualize This: A Fresh Perspective on Business Intelligence Systems” …
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Googlenomics
An amazing fact that I was reading, “Google wrings $235,000 of profit from the work …
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How will Cloud Computing change BI and Data Warehousing?
This is a question I have been pondering for some time. How will the Cloud …
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SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP BW) and Microsoft Excel 2007 – MDX Connectivity
I was poking around the SAP Developer Network (http://www.sdn.sap.com) website this weekend and found a …
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What do you think a Data Warehouse Appliance is?
A recent TDWI survey asked people “What do you think a data warehouse appliance is?” …
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A Major Shift in the Data Warehouse Space…
I have been a fan of the Data Warehouse Appliance for some time. The concepts, …
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IBM Cubing Services – MDX and ODBO – Excel Pivot Tables
In case you missed it, on May 6, IBM announced support for OLE DB for …
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Teradata and the Data Warehouse Appliance
Teradata has always been the big kahuna of the big database. In the data warehouse …
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Database as a Service vs Cloud Databases
This week in Intelligent Enterprise, there is an article by Donald Feinberg of Gartner that …
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Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets – Panorama Did It!
I wrote a while back about Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets. Well, I have seen …
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SAP Sapphire and Patrick Lencioni – continued
I read Patrick’s book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” on the flight home from …
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SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA)
I am still amazed at the potential for the SAP BIA product. There has been …
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Business Objects Polestar and SAP BIA
During the keynotes at Sapphire, there was a lot of discussion about the new …
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SAP Sapphire – Patrick Lencioni
The first official day of Sapphire was very busy. They main keynotes were Patrick Lencioni …
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SAP Sapphire – SAP and Business Objects
I am at Sapphire 2008 this week and yesterday I attended the Jumpstart session entitled …
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SAP’s BI Chief Juggles Independence, Integration
InfoWorld has published a very interesting interview with John Schwarz, the former CEO of Business …
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Whither Essbase?
I always enjoyed the Hyperion Solutions Conference. One of the things I enjoyed at Solutions …
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Nine Business Intelligence Vendors to Watch
Thomas Wailgum takes “a look at the leading BI vendors’ strengths, weaknesses and strategies for …
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 BI
A few people have asked me about what’s coming up in the next version of …
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Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets?
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 …
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The OLAP Report
I had an opportunity to dive into the latest OLAP Report this weekend. In the …
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If Larry Ellison was running Microsoft, would he buy Yahoo?
That is a very interesting question that I never thought to ask myself. However, when …
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SAP’s Business Objects Road Map
I saw this pdf slide presentation on SAP’s Business Objects road map last week and …
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The MDX Query Language
I came across an interesting blog by Dejan Sarka, where he talks about the MDX …
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Newer Data Warehouse Appliance Players
The article entitled “BI Industry Outlook: Busy and Bright” by Stephen Swoyer http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=8813 is an …
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IBM and Cognos
Now that Cognos is part of IBM, I am curious what IBM’s strategy is. Stephen …
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SAP and Business Objects
Since Simba is known for our data connectivity expertise, I get a lot of questions …
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Microsoft Excel 2007 works natively with SAP BW
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 …
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SAP / Business Objects Acquisition
Well, it is finally official; SAP owns Business Objects. Congratulations to both companies. I recently …
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2007 Reflection and Industry / BI Predictions For The Year Ahead
When I reflect back on 2007, it was certainly a year of change in the …
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More on Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote an interesting take on Gartner Inc’s latest Data Warehousing Magic …
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Oracle OpenWorld
I attended the Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco last week. It was very interesting. …
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Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
I was reading the Gartner Report on “Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, …
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ODBC Rocks
I read the article entitled “ODBC Rocks” on the CoDe Magazine website and I wanted …
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Business Objects Insight 2007
I just got back from the Business Objects Insight Conference and wanted to talk about …
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MDX – History and Evolution
I’d like to highlight some MDX history, specifically how it has been adopted by many …
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Why build an ODBC Driver?
I often get asked by people as to why you would want to build an …
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Java and XMLA? You Bet!
I have had a number of questions recently about Java and XMLA. People have asked …
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What’s Happening with XML for Analysis (XMLA)
Recently a lot of people have asked me about XML for Analysis (XMLA) and what …