Applied dimensionality

There’s a story I’d like to tell, especially funny in context with recent merger. I’ve found all this stuff (see links) about a year ago and I imagined the undocumented parts, it’s not official. In deep 90s a great guy named George Kunzle lead the development of IBM internal budgeting system, called FREGI. It was [...]

Cognos press-release IBM press-release I don’t know what to add for now.

SAP bla-bla-bla BO bla-blapros: bla-bla-blacons: bla-bla-blaI’m kinda bored with those M&As. It’s bad for technology and industry focus. And IBM bla-bla Cognos.

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

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.

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

Cognos bought Celequest. That’s good in my opinion, in-memory db’s are interesting and BAM (business activity monitoring) is on top of marketing wave.Links on topic:Official press-releaseCraig SchiffShawn Rogers

When BO acquired SGL, another planning vendor, after SRC, I was asking myself: How these guys will be selling their products? As one product (that the very CPM-circle), or as a number of products. Now Craig Schiff tells us that BO tried “cpm-bundle” selling with SRC and decided to sell BI and Enterprise Planning separately, [...]

Another CPM acquisition. BO buys another planning applications vendor after buying SRC a year ago. SRC was supposed to enrich BO proposal to a full CPM system, bringing up the planning part, as was widely announced. Latter acquisition of ALG shows that either SRC didn’t “go well” with other BO apps (couldn’t integrate or such), [...]

Pro: IBM needs a CPM solution. Developing it “in-house” is too long. But “Blue Giant” won’t suffer without it much. It’s faster to buy complete solutions. Alphablox was bought only for couple of projects. Contra: IBM tends to be Linux-oriented. Cognos 8 BI is Linux-friendly. Enterprise Planning and Controller are MS-tied to bones Pro: Cognos [...]