Although my major BI interest is in micro-BI (or is that workgroup-BI?) i.e. data, perhaps cleansed and packaged elsewhere, available locally on a datasmith’s PC,with most likely an in-memory OLAP as the analysis tool; the possibilities of the “cloud” as a BI platform have not escaped me.
From a micro-BI perspective, the ability to act as a [...]
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LiteBI, Heavy ETL
Posted in BI, ETL, Talend, cloud, data, kettle, olap, tagged LiteBI on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Project Gemini – XXL, Excel on Steroids
Posted in BI, ETL, SQLite, excel, tagged Excel 2010, PowerPivot, Project Gemini, Workgroup BI on April 1, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In my last post about why I use SQLite in combination with Excel for datasmithing tasks, I listed the more traditional backends (Excel itself, MS Access, RDBMs & MOLAP cubes) that one would expect to “compete” with such an idea. But I suspect that if that same post appeared two years or so into [...]
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