Insights Best Practices in Modelling IBM Cognos 8 Semantic Layers With IBM Cognos 8, model semantic layers effectively using Framework Manager to create flexible and durable data models. maandag, 13 oktober 2008
Insights Microsoft Office Excel 2007 as front-end to SQL Server 2005 Introduction Over the past years, Microsoft has been building –slowly but certainly- its Business Intelligence & Performance Management vision & product stack. Despite Microsoft's roots and its reputation for building user friendly end-user products, most of the work in the last 5-10 years was in the underlying architecture of the database, OLAP structures & ETL-layer. maandag, 25 augustus 2008
Insights Independent BI vendors in a consolidated market: the case of Microstrategy Introduction In the last decade the business intelligence market has been relatively fragmented with a lot of different vendors offering open solutions, which were designed to operate with a large variety of different databases, data-sources (ERP, CRM, SCM …), operating systems, portal technologies and web/application servers. Consolidation in the BI market had been forecasted and rumored for many years, but finally happened with a vengeance in 2007. woensdag, 6 augustus 2008
News element61 joins international independent network of Performance Management Professionals element61 announced today that it has accepted the invitation to join iBond, an international independent network of Performance Management Professionals. dinsdag, 15 april 2008
Insights The birth of Performance Management - 2007 : Consolidation of an entire industry 2007 has been quite an amazing year for the market of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management. More than 15 billion $ was spent in Mergers & Acquisitions, mainly by the software industry giants SAP, Oracle & IBM, to acquire the crown jewels of the BI & CPM market. zaterdag, 9 februari 2008
Insights The role of the data warehouse in a Planning & Budgeting solution IntroductionAs solutions for Planning & Budgeting further merge with solutions for "classical” Business Intelligence, Performance Management professionals increasingly need to reflect on an information technology architecture that delivers on the promise of integration of both historical & future data.First, we will look into the most common reasons for deploying Planning & Budgeting solutions. Secondly, we will address the optimal architecture in which to fit these systems and what crucial role the data warehouse needs to play. woensdag, 9 januari 2008
Insights Why a data warehouse plays a role in your CPM architecture Read why a data warehouse plays an important role in your cpm architecture ! vrijdag, 2 februari 2007
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