The company said the decision to offer Worksheet was a direct response to the upcoming release of Microsoft's Decision Support Services, an Olap server code-named Plato. Worksheet will operate with Plato, IBM's DB2 Olap server and Essbase from Arbor.
An annual report into the OLAP (Online Analytical Data Processing) market has found that Oracle is no longer market leader. The report's lead author, Nigel Pendse, found the worldwide OLAP market grew over 45 per cent in 1998.
One school of thought has it that the text based, teletext-style pages pumped out by Open were just not appealing enough to BSkyB subscribers. A long time developer of business intelligence software, Cognos is attempting to move from being a...
The fate of the proposed patent plan could have a dramatic effect on the way software is developed in the EU, with many developers and small businesses fearing a US-style system in which large companies with thousands of software-related patents...
Commonly based on the new service-oriented architectures, these suites are focused on driving BI standardisation across the enterprise by integrating OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing), query and reporting, dashboards and also data integration.
Today the traditional reporting approach of using Olap (on line analytical processing) solutions is being superseded by in-memory data management which promises to take BI to the next level. These tools avoid the classic problems associated with...