Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Monday, December 7th, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J

One of the few things that i have been doing in the last 3 weeks is in finding a good research topic for my part-time PhD thesis. Actually it is a Weekend PhD as i work during the weekdays and in the weekends devote some time to the PhD. Its a bit tiresome but due [...]

Visualizing relational data as Essbase/OLAP cubes – Partition Outer Joins and MODEL Clauses – Part 3

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J

In a prior blog entry here, i had shown the advantages of using the MODEL clause. I also showed how the MODEL clause can be used to visualize the relational data in a multi-dimensional format. In most cases, using the MODEL clause alone can be sufficient. Just to recap, the MODEL clause divides your resultant [...]

What is Methodology Governance?

Monday, June 1st, 2009 by Jennifer Albu

After my last blog “Introducing the RittmanMead Delphi Methodology”, one of you posted the comment below. My answer ended up being so long that I decided to turn my response into my next blog. Here is the comment:
“What about iterations within the Delphi 18 stages? Do you have a structure for incorporating feedback from later [...]

Introducing the Rittman Mead “Delphi” Methodology

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 by Jennifer Albu

I’d like to start off my first blog by introducing myself. I’ve been working in the IT field for 25 years, the last 12 in data warehousing. I’ve analyzed, designed and coded all aspects from OLTP extracts and ETL mappings to stars schemas and OLAP reports. Looking back, I guess I’ve always had an interest [...]

Using a PARTITION BY JOIN to Fill In The Gaps

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 by Stewart Bryson

As a quick introduction, I’m Stewart Bryson, Technical Director for North America. It seems strange to be posting an entry on this blog after so many years of reading it, and learning from it. The momentum it has in the community is something I do not take lightly, so hopefully, this post and others from [...]

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