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2010/11/13

Wow, what a trip. I barely slept. Let’s get right down to it: summary of my thoughts on the whole thing.

2010/11/13

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....

2010/11/13

The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the BI Semantic Model and how it compares to the existing BI models in the Microsoft BI stack, specifically the UDM (OLAP models) and SMDL (report models). Very simply put, the BI Semantic Model is a relational (tables and relationships) model with BI artifacts such as hierarchies and KPIs. It unifies the capabilities of SMDL models with many of the sophisticated BI semantics from the UDM. However it does not replace the UDM....

2009/08/07

Last October I wrote about the Teradata 13 release of Teradata’s database management software. Teradata 13, which will be used across the various Teradata product lines, has now been announced for GCA (General Customer Availability). So far as I can tell, there were two main points of emphasis for Teradata 13: Performance and User Defined Functions...