Once again I attended the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada and once again I was impressed with the content, instructors, the TDWI Staff, facilities and overall conference experience that makes me want to continue to return.
This year I hit the instructor jackpot with the set of instructors for my chosen classes. This [...]
Why OLAP?
For the first 3 quarters of my career I didn’t pay attention to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology, everything I did was with relational structures because everything I did was for users who wanted reports handed to them. In the last few years that has changed for me in the regard that users [...]
If you had to build your BI Dream Team, who would be the players? Your first instinct might be to go the ultra-experienced route, filling the team with seasoned veterans bringing their wealth of knowledge to the company and letting them drive to the BI Promised Land. To be honest, that was my thought… bring [...]
One of the things I struggle with is change management for business intelligence. One of the toughest things to explain to non-BI people, whether they are in QA/QC or general IT areas is that BI is not a transactional system or IT application, so traditional change management process doesn’t really fit the mold. In [...]
I’ve recently run in to some technical difficulties with BusinessObjects 4.0 and thought I would share it here to see if I could find the answer among the BI Collective.
Both MDX statements are pulling back the same objects; SBU, Product Type, Property Name, and Fiscal Year with 3 measures for Actual, Budget and Projection.
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