Hail! King of BI tools…
I find it interesting to read about the differences between BO and Cognos. A couple of days ago I was present at an MS SSRS training. (I will not be tempted to state that MSSSRS is a better tool, because it simply is not.) However, I have worked with all three tools and interesting enough, […]
Superficial
Call me superficial if you want, but I find the GUI of a reporting tool an important aspect. Whereas performance and feature richness are important, so is the way in which these properties are presented. I believe this is an important selling point for the Cognos 8 BI environment. In the past few months I had […]
Scripting (because you’re always smarter than your tool)
When you are working with tools, you will always encounter some tasks that can not be performed by the tool itself. Informatica can not move files, let alone perform the more complicated actions. This is where the wonderful world of (Unix) scripting comes along. Since I was introduced in this world during my study I’ve […]
We Need nerds
The Dutch Prime Minister made a call for more Nerds. Seeing that this blog is populated by self identified Nerds and perhaps some geeks we will answer this call. Most people are first called nerds before realizing it themselves.
Please cue the national flag with our silhouettes standing heroically before it.
Now let’s see what we actually need for Business Intelligence. A brief glance at some literature hints at a Business Intelligence competence center
MDX Basics - part 1
MDX is short for Multi-Dimensional Expressions and is a concept just as popular as Business Intelligence, it is a language used to query OLAP ( Online analytical processing) datasources. Concerning OLAP Wikipedia explains that: “In the core of any OLAP system is a concept of an OLAP cube (also called a multidimensional cube or a hypercube). It consists of […]
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