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Category Archives: BI&CPM

Cognos buys Applix

Wow, another M&A. Now Cognos will grab an ultra-speed in-memory OLAP engine. Will they use it for Planning 9.0? Links:Official CognosCraig Schiff

Posted 05 September 2007 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

New Oracle&Hyperion blog

Nice overview and details. I’d only seen cubegeek posting Hyperion-related stuff.

Posted 24 July 2007 † ykud § bi § hyperion ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Cognos EP 8.2 is out

Late as always (it’s out there since 16/07) I’d like to note that Cognos EP 8.2 is out. It’s really a major release with quite a number of new features, including: Transfer of annotations between applications by admin links(that was urgently needed for matrix agreement) Attachments in contributor — a possibility to attach a file [...]

Posted 23 July 2007 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Hyperion on edelivery

Well, I’m last to notice — they’ve brought all hyperion apps on edelivery.oracle.com Started unwrapping this mid-summer present today. It took me quite a time to get to Hyperion Planning LogOn screen, I must admit. This is no Analyst out-of-box experience, this is serious software with lots of ports&services stuff ) And AIX 64 capable [...]

Posted 16 July 2007 † ykud § bi § hyperion ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

OLAP vs Relational

An excellent Kimball’s article.

Posted 03 May 2007 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

CPM definition

Found out that forgot to post a link to this excellent overview of CPM process

Posted 26 March 2007 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) °

Rittman on Oracle+Hyperion

Definitely worth reading. I’m just confused with EPB future. And if EPB will be changed by Hyperion products, all EPF concepts falls. Future of products will remain unclear until Oracle explains their plans in detail. But the main goal Oracle’s is obvious. Got the illustration from Tom Kyte’s blog.

Posted 04 March 2007 † ykud § hyperion § oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Failed Dozen of BI-revolutions

I really liked “The missing ‘Next Big Things’” by Nigel Pendse and Carston Bange, so I translated it to Russian and it’s available there on CitForum. Just to spread the word.

Posted 03 March 2007 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Oracle To Buy Hyperion

Oh my God. CNN article Anyway, that’ll give me access to Essbase and I wanted that.

Posted 01 March 2007 † ykud § bi § hyperion ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

gee, a book review

Finished Analytics&OLAP in SQL by Joe Celko today. A very “blog-style” book, some very good ideas, some repeats (read “Trees&Hierarchies in SQL” previously), sarcasm and a set of good examples. Not a starter-book, but a recommended reading for anyone interested in data analysis. “Tape-based” approach and Von Neumann logic still dominate IT. SQL is bad [...]

Posted 29 January 2007 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,