Informatica != SSIS (part 1)
Hopping from assignment to assignment (or continent to continent for some of you) you’re bound to work with various pieces of software. From Cognos to Business Objects, from Oracle to MS SQL server, or from Informatica to Microsofts SSIS. It is ’stating the obvious’ to say that all those programs -despite having similar goals and […]
Vista and Cognos 8
I recently received my new company laptop; a fancy Thinkpad T61 with a 100Gb 72ooRpm HDD, 2Gig of memory and a Core 2 Duo. In short, a nice toy to play with. It came with Windows Vista pre-installed. Although this new OS looked quite spectacular on the 15″ widescreen, the changes are not all good. […]
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, […]
Why SSIS isn’t there (yet)
Disclaimer: this text may be slightly biased and affected by a lack of experience with SSIS. If I missed all the easy options to solve the issues mentioned below, please let me know.
After working with Informatica PowerCenter for 3 years, I had the opportunity of working with SSIS (SQL Server 2005) for a short while. […]






