2010/02/04

Outside the world of Oracle, one of the rising stars of the BI world has been Qliktech, the Swedish software company behind QlikView. QlikView is one of a new breed of desktop, in-memory BI tools that are being evaluated by customers as alternatives to traditional relational query tools such as Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and OLAP servers such as Essbase or Oracle OLAP. So what is QlikView, and how does it compare to Oracle's BI tools?...

2009/09/30

Microsoft site on their Business Intelligence offerings.

2009/08/02

ADAPT (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies) is the first design methodology specifically created to represent the objects and operations found in OLAP databases. ADAPT Visio template available.

2009/07/17

Cognos Solution Forum at Tek-Tips.

2009/07/01

Extensive list of open source BI tools written in Java.

2009/06/16

Gemini is designed to look as much like Excel as possible, so its data will look like a set of Excel tables. Anyone familiar with Excel 2007 tables (which is still probably only a small minority of the hundreds of millions of the world’s Excel users) will immediately feel at home. However, Gemini tables are actually stored as highly compressed, column-indexed, in-memory objects, not Excel worksheets. They are viewed and manipulated in the new Gemini client window, not in the Excel worksheet itself....

2009/04/30

2008/03/11

Palo is an extremely efficient In-Memory OLAP database for professional BI solutions. Central data management and multiuser- capability along with versioning and user management put an end to the well-known Excel-Chaos.

2010/03/10

Collection of QlikView tips and tricks

2010/03/04

Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?In addition, he provides a lot of useful links, that DBMS-oriented folks such as myself might have previously overlooked.

2010/03/03

While office theft by employees has been a problem since the invention of the office, it seems during times of economic uncertainty office theft rises substantially. Just how bad is it? How about 994 billion dollars being attributed to employees stealing? The infographic below clearly shows that employee theft is on the rise; and more startling is the fact that no one is immune to the lure of free pencils or getting a five-finger-discount when it come to electronics and other office equipment. All levels of education are guilty and those with bachelor's degrees are the biggest offenders when it comes office theft....