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OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)

November 27, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim to fame: we went to the same high school, Poole Grammar). The term was chosen to contrast with OLTP or online transaction processing, and was prompted by some clever marketing folks at Essbase, who wanted to... [read more]

Nigel Pendse interviewed

April 13, 2009 by Michael Wexler
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One of the best interviews I’ve read giving the real story behind how people actually use BI, and its not exactly what all the vendors are saying. Well worth reading the whole thing… http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/bi-vendors-tell-users-what-they-want-but-are-users-listening/?cs=31761 For those... [read more]