Microsoft Corp. and data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. yesterday announced plans for a joint XML-based technical specification aimed at providing a common way for users to connect ...

Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity drivers, has announced the beta release of its native Microsoft Excel 2007 connector to Oracle ...

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SQL Server 2005, code-named Yukon, will include updated Reporting Services that let developers send out report-processing capabilities with their custom applications. That will be done in the form of ...

OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL ...

On the business analytics front, Microsoft announced business intelligence components that have been extended for the MBS-Great Plains Professional Edition. The new modules include MBS Great Plains ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

While Hadoop has had the potential to transform the way data warehouses are deployed for quite some time, IT organizations still wind up moving data from Hadoop into a traditional data warehouse, ...

Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

<B>Background: (Feel free to skip)</B><BR>I'm starting a project here at work to explore using OLAP techniques to start working more intelligently with our data.<BR><BR>Towards this end I got familiar ...