Business Intelligence and OLAP

• XML for Analysis (XMLA)
• Gartner
• DM Review
• Meta Group
• The Data Warehousing Institute
• The Butler Group
• Ovum

         Note: Only enitites and analysts that are seen to be INDEPENDENT are listed.

Useful Articles

• Integrated Business Intelligence by IDC
• OLAP/Business Intelligence Market Commentary Independence Considerations - This contains a set of questions and considerations to decide on the independence of current commentary in the OLAP and Business Intelligence arena.
• "Business Intelligence: How Many BI Products Does Your Organization Need?" - We have had various discussions with OLAP analysts and consultants that advocate a combination of OLAP products - we, however, do not. This is backed up by the article below which appeared on DM Review on October 28, 2004. This was written by Jonathan Wu of Knightsbridge Solutions. www.knightsbridge.com.

Excel

• Dutch Help - [Hulp bij excel problemen] - A Dutch site to help you with your Microsoft Excel problems.
  Tricks, hints, macros, downloads and a forum where you can upload your xls! -file. You can also ask for help.

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