Where is BI Growing?

Here’s an interesting look at one way in which business intelligence is growing – let the entire company use it and get hooked.

Microsoft sees BI growth beyond dashboardsIT Business: “the business intelligence strategy needs to change from a strategic play implemented among the upper echelon of a company to a company-wide rollout on an operational [...]

Error Opening Cognos 8 Framework Manager

When accessing Framework Manager today, in our development environment, we were getting an error when trying to open an existing project or create a new one:

BME-EX-0047 Unable to read preferences for the requested interface..: “BME-EX-0047 Unable to read preferences for the requested interface. Please use another repository and/or ProjectAccess Interface.”

I found the knowledge base article [...]

Issue with Cube Builds

My cube builds tonight hit an error and wouldn’t failed when trying to be built. I opened up the model in transformer and went to manually build the cubes. About 30 seconds into it, I got an error about 2nd item number is supposed to be unique and an item number already existed.

The [...]

Microsoft and ProfitBase Help Retailers Track Performance With New Standards-Based Retail Data Warehouse Template

This caught my eye this morning.

Microsoft and ProfitBase Help Retailers Track Performance With New Standards-Based Retail Data Warehouse Template: “Microsoft Corp and ProfitBase AS, a leading Norwegian business performance management software company, today announced their strategic alliance, aimed at delivering an out-of-the-box, standards-based business intelligence solution for the retail industry. Based on the Association for [...]

More on Katmai

I found some more info microsoft’s announcement of Katmai. This part caught my eye.

IT Team: SQL Server 2008

IT Team: SQL Server 2008: “Intrinsic support for many digital data formats, including pictures, audio, video and other multimedia data. In current versions, such multimedia data can be stored as BLOBs , but they are generic [...]

Microsoft SQL Server code name "Katmai"

It’s official – Microsoft announced yesterday that Katmai is coming.

Microsoft SQL Server code name “Katmai”: “SQL Server code name ‘Katmai,’ the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and [...]

Model Versioning

I had an issue yesterday where a report ran fine. A new package wasthen published and the report stopped working. When I published thepackage, the model versioning option was set to save two copies of themodel. Since the model broke the reports, I then rolled back thechanges. When the user ran [...]

RSS feed in Report Studio – ITtoolbox Groups

RSS feed in Report Studio – ITtoolbox Groups: “RSS feed in Report Studio” – I need to keep my eye on this one because adding RSS to the mix would be very powerful.

Creating a RSS Channel to Inform Users When Cubes are Refreshed: Supportlink

Creating a RSS Channel to Inform Users When Cubes are Refreshed: Supportlink: “Creating a RSS Channel to Inform Users When Cubes are Refreshed”