| 2010/11/13 Business Intelligence Semantic Model – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
If there is one thing that I don't want to be these days is a program manager on the Analysis Services team. After the WOW announcement at SQL PASS about PowerPivot going corporate under a new name, Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM), there were a lot of questions and negativity from the SSAS community and not much encouragement. Your humble correspondent did his own share of bashing and probably burned a few bridges along the way. For some obscure reason, Microsoft this time decided to keep MVPs and community leaders in the dark until PASS, so I was as unprepared as the rest of the community. I was told that corporate BI would be a major focus in Denali, which I interpreted as enhancements to UDM, only to find out that all the buzz is about BISM…To its credit, the SSAS team was quick in its attempt to cover the collateral damages as we could see in the posts below from Amir Netz and T.K. Anand....
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