Introduction Data warehouses are at the heart of most business intelligence solution platforms or frameworks and are expected to remain the foundation for relational reporting, OLAP analysis, in-memory analysis, and cloud-based business intelligence. Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball are commonly considered the fathers of data warehousing. They represent very different philosophies and approaches to data…
> FeaturedtimeXtender 2012 is Available as Community Technology Preview (CTP1) for Current Customers and Partners
timeXtender 2012 Highlights Include: -Support for “Denali” – the next version of Microsoft SQL Server. – Extraction and transformation of data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and loading of the data into an on-premise data warehouse. – Upload of QuickCube projects directly to the SQL Azure repository
timeXtender Customers Win B-Eye Vision Awards 2012
Cisco Europe and Fleet Support were both announced winners of a B-Eye Vision Award at the BI-day conference in Belgium.
De Lindeboom Gains Unprecedented Insights Into Its Business
De Lindeboom needed a data warehousing solution that could easily access its transaction database and provide trustworthy data for reporting and analyses. Background The Belgian De Lindeboom Apotheek group of pharmacies was established in 1953, and has since grown significantly as the result of mergers and acquisitions so that today the group consists of 61…
Cisco Lays Foundation for More Efficient BI Reports With timeXtender
“In timeXtender, we found the perfect complement to our BI solution. It’s a particularly user friendly tool, allowing anyone, even without technical skills, to build the data set he needs using ‘drag & drop’. And without having to rely on the ICT department. Before, it took us three days to build a new BI report,…