DatAllegro – The New Microsoft DW Appliance?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | July 28, 2008 | Blog

Why is it every time I take a week off on holiday something major happens in the BI market? I am of course talking about Microsoft’s Announcement to acquire the data warehouse appliance vendor DatAllegro. The message on this is certainly obvious, the scaling of SQL Server. It’s a very interesting announcement. With the exception […]

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Kalido – Its a Wrap For Microsoft

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | July 16, 2008 | Blog

Yesterday Kalido announced the availability of Kalido Universal Information Director for Microsoft SQL Server which will speed up development of BI systems based on the Microsoft Platform. By using Universal Director (part of the Kalido Information Engine suite of technologies) it is possible to capture the metadata and automate the generation and population of Microsoft […]

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Microsoft Adds Another Piece To The Data Management Puzzle

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | July 15, 2008 | Blog

Microsoft have been somewhat quiet in the enterprise data governance arena since their acquisition of MDM vendor Stratature in 2007. Since then they took that product off the market which clearly indicated that Stratature was a piece of a bigger puzzle they are building. Of course they already have their SQL Server Integration Services data […]

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In-Memory Data – Vital for BAM and CEP

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 24, 2008 | Blog

As we head down the road towards real-time event-driven computing and move gradually away from batch processing it is clear that the number of events in some vertical industries is going to be enormous. Not surprising therefore that if we are looking to analyse this data before it reaches a data warehouse then in-memory data […]

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Operational BI – Extended BI System Or Brand New Architecture?

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 18, 2008 | Blog

For those of you looking at Operational BI a very common question is how will this use of intelligence impact the classic BI system architecture? To answer this question requires that we first define operational BI. This is the use of intelligence in every-day business operations. We are not talking about running reports that access […]

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