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This post is part of the agile dimensional modeling series, that promotes the use of agile to speed up business value driven data warehouse development. The importance of the why The first and most important thing to understand is always the why. The what, when, how etc. does not make much sense, unless we know…

Agile and rapid are some of the most frequently used buzz words in the data warehousing community these days, so I thought it was about time to put these in context of timeXtender. Those who know our tool and company are well aware, that timeXtender was created from day one for agile implementation of ETL…

Introduction If your organization uses Microsoft Dynamics AX, you have probably wondered about the differences between using standard AX OLAP cubes and timeXtender as your Business Intelligence platform. While standard OLAP cubes in Dynamics AX 2009 come with functionality that addresses some of the challenges of former versions a BI solution based only on standard…

In the business intelligence industry it is common knowledge that around 70% of the resources needed to implement and maintain a typical data warehouse can be attributed to the ETL process. Traditionally this makes it a costly and lengthy process which involves substantial risks. Sometimes you come across software or services, that just sounds too…