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By Miro Kosecek, November 6, 2010 8:20 pm

The fierce competition of two OLAP technologies has not stop by merging their mother’s companies. Cognos in 2007 acquired Applix (though months later itself was acquired by IBM) not just to create synergy effect or broaden its customer base but to gain technological advantage too. Cognos’s PowerPlay, some ten years ago probably the most broadly used OLAP technology, has already reached its technological limits and new innovative products had superior performance and more capabilities. Continue reading 'IBM Cognos OLAP: TM1 versus PowerCubes'»

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By Miro Kosecek, October 22, 2009 9:15 pm

Business intelligence is a name used for wide class of software applications that provides managers and other knowledge workers with information they need for managing more effectively their organizations (companies, public institutions, schools, hospitals, ngo’s and other). It includes tools for reporting, analysis, OLAP, dashboards, scorecards and others. Continue reading 'Business Intelligence Software and Systems, an Introduction'»