It has been a while since I lasted looked at what Microsoft is offering for Business Intelligence so I was pleased to be able to attend the Senturus webinar last week, Microsoft for BI and DW. Microsoft BI encompasses an array of products in four distinct categories: Power BI, Azure, Microsoft Office and SQL Server. Power […]
Digging into IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
What are Dynamic Cubes? Dynamic Cubes are a new feature released with IBM Cognos BI version 10.2. It extends to OLAP the Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) functionality that was introduced with Cognos 10.1. Dynamic Cubes are based on ROLAP technology, like Microsoft Analysis Services cubes. The primary benefits of Dynamic Cubes are application responsiveness for users and unprecedented scalability. The […]