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  • Is Artificial Intelligence a mature discipline?

    - by Lynxiayel
    I'm designing some AI games recently. And this question that is AI a mature discipline suddenly came to my mind. My own view is that AI is not mature yet. But there're exact theory systems here in AI already, including the expert system or knowledge presenting and so on. So it becomes a problem for me that I can't convince myself about whether it's mature or not with fully demonstration. Anyone has idea about this question? Show me your proof please. Thanks a lot for your attention and help.

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  • Step Aside Google

    - by David Dorf
    Step aside Google. While search will always be a huge part of the web, I can see a day in the not-too-distance future where search takes a backseat to the social graph. Links between pages will give way to relationships between people, including context like location. What does this mean for retail? It means your e-commerce strategy will slowly transition to an f-commerce strategy. Remember when a large portion of the online population was held captive inside the walls of AOL? All the commercials listed an AOL keyword, not a web address because that's where the majority of people surfed. Now, people are spending a huge amount of time in Facebook (despite Betty White's proclamation that its a big waste of time). According to Facebook, users spend 500 billion minutes per month on the site. Selling products where consumers are spending their time makes sense. The power of Like and Share are the most effective approach to marketing. More and more stores are popping up on Facebook, and soon they will be the front-end to e-commerce systems. As sites adopt the Facebook Open Graph API, users will have a harder time distinguishing the open web from their Facebook experience, including shopping. Of course e-commerce sites won't go away, but a large portion of their traffic will emanate from Facebook and in some cases Facebook will act as the front-end for the web store. Ignore Facebook Open Graph at your peril. In a Mashable article, Mitchell Harper made several predictions about how e-commerce will change based on Facebook. His five points are not far-fetched at all, so we need to watch this space carefully.

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  • The Other "C" in CRM

    - by Brian Dayton
    Folks who know me know that I rarely, if ever, talk politics. And I never talk politicians. Having grown up in a household with one parent leaning left and the other leaning to the right it was the best way to keep the peace. This isn't about politics. It's about "constituents" and the need to improve the services and service levels for people--at the city, county, state/province, etc. level all the way up to national governments. As a citizen and tax payer it's also important to me that these services be provided at a reasonable cost. If there's a better and more efficient way to do something then it's my hope that a public sector organization takes advantage of technology the same way private sector companies do. Social services organizations have a complex job. They provide the services that people need, from healthcare and children's assistance to helping people find jobs. But many of these organizations are still managing these processes manually or outdated, home-grown applications that could have been written up to 30 years ago. A lot has changed in technology. On the (this is as political as I'm going to get) political front, stakeholders like you and me are expecting greater transparency on where and how funds are spent. I'll admit that most of the time, when I think about CRM systems, I think about my experience as a customer of my bank, utilities company or cable operator. But now that I'm older, have children and a house--I find myself interacting more and more with agencies and services organizations. My experiences are sometimes good and sometimes not so good. Along those lines, last week's announcement of Siebel CRM 8.2 for Public Sector caught my eye. You may not work in the public sector, but you are a constituent of some--actually a lot--of public sector organizations. I don't know which CRM systems city and county utilize but I'm going to start paying closer attention.

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  • Gestão do Conhecimento 2.0 - Data Adiada para 30 de Junho

    - by Claudia Costa
    Nas organizações o conceito de intranet está a evoluir de um simples repositório de documentos e links para uma plataforma colaborativa, onde os colaboradores podem consultar, navegar, publicar, analisar, comentar e valorizar os seus conhecimentos e de outros.   Durante esta sessão apresentaremos os produtos e proposta de valor da Oracle para a evolução da intranet e gestão do conhecimento 2.0 (também conhecido como Social KM). Clique aqui e registe-se.   Agenda (Oracle, Lagoas Park/ 9:30-14:30) 09:15 - Café de Boas Vindas & Registo 09:30 - Gestão do Conhecimento 2.0 10:30 - Demo de GdC 2.0 com Oracle 11:00 - Coffee Break 11:30 - Oracle WebCenter Framework 12:30 - Oracle WebCenter Spaces 13:30 - Conclusão   Pré-requisitos Cada participante deverá trazer o seu Laptop preparado com as seguintes características: ·         2GB RAM, com acesso a WiFi ·         Disco rígido com 25GB de espaço livre (caso queira gravar a máquina virtal a disponibilizar durante a sessão)    Clique aqui e registe-se.   * Pedimos desculpa por esta alteração.  Caso surja algum impedimento em poder participar nesta nova data, agradeço por favor que nos informe.    

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  • How to get feedback from the community on large chunks of code?

    - by MainMa
    Code Review.SE is great when you need feedback on a precise, short piece of code. But where to get similar feedback about the code itself when: you have thousands of LOC, don't have colleagues in your workplace ready or willing to review the code¹, don't have thousands of dollars to spend for a professional review by a third party developer?² Places like CodePlex are a good idea to get your project known³, but from what I've seen, the feedback you get on known projects are consumer feedback, i.e. concerns the bugs and feature requests, not the quality of the source code itself. What are the social way to get the community involved in the code review of the codebase of a certain size for an open source project which doesn't have the scale of Firefox or similar products? ¹ Which is the case for most personal and open source projects, or projects done in companies where the practice of regular and complete code review is nonexistent. ² Which is, again, the case for most personal and open source projects. ³ Even if too many projects published on CodePlex never get known, either because nobody cares or because they are presented not very well.

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  • Share text message on selected media

    - by Siddharth
    I want to share text data on player selected social media. Basically I want to implement functionality like following link represent for android. Send Text Content I want to give user a choice for sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Messaging, Gmail etc. Above link give proper guidance for my question. Here is code that work on android Intent sendIntent = new Intent(); sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send."); sendIntent.setType("text/plain"); startActivity(sendIntent);Intent sendIntent = new Intent(); sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send."); sendIntent.setType("text/plain"); startActivity(sendIntent); I don't know same functionality implementation in Unity. Basically at present I am targeting two platform for my game Android iOS I found answer for Android platform but I can't able to get answer of iOS platform. Share text message on selected media - Unity Forum Now I think my question is clear to all of you. So please help me to solve it.

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  • Gartner prévoit une forte croissance de la Business Intelligence sur 2011, et un changement en profondeur des solutions

    Gartner prévoit une croissance de 9,7 % du marché de la Business Intelligence Sur 2011, et un changement en profondeur des solutions Le cabinet d'études Gartner prévoit une croissance de 9,7 % du marché de la Business Intelligence (BI) sur 2011. Une croissance qui devrait ensuite se poursuivre jusqu'en 2014, sur une rythme légèrement inférieur. La BI devrait donc être un des secteurs du marché du logiciel qui progresse le plus rapidement, en dépit du ralentissement économique. « Les organisations continuent leurs projets de BI », explique Ian Bertram, vice- président de Gartner, et ce pour une raison simple, « elles espèrent qu'ils leur permettront de réduire leurs coûts, d'amél...

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  • Près de la moitié des attaques exploitent des failles de Java par défaut de mises à jour, d'après le rapport Security Intelligence de Microsoft

    Près de la moitié des attaques exploitent des failles de Java Par défaut de mises à jour, d'après le rapport Security Intelligence de Microsoft Les exploits contre la sécurité informatique durant la première moitié de 2011 étaient en grande partie associés aux vulnérabilités de la famille de produits Java, la technologie maintenue par Oracle. Le rapport Security Intelligence de Microsoft souligne en effet un record : entre le tiers et la moitié des exploits sont dus à des failles dans l'environnement d'exécution (JRE), la machine virtuelle (JVM) et le JDK. [IMG]http://idelways.developpez.com/news/images/java-exploits.png[/IMG] Oracle ne tarde pas outr...

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  • SAP Visual Intelligence devient SAP Lumira, l'outil de visualisation de données complexes développé en France passe au Cloud et au HTML5

    SAP Visual Intelligence devient SAP Lumira L'outil de visualisation de données complexes développé en France passe au Cloud et au HTML5La solution de « Data Visualization » de SAP vient de changer de nom. Fini donc SAP Visual Intelligence, dîtes désormais SAP Lumira.La nouvelle appellation s'accompagne de quelques nouveautés. En tant que développeur, on remarquera que cette version est en HTML5. En tant qu'utilisateur métier, on retiendra plutôt le temps-réel, l'accélération de la prise de décisions grâce aux réponses factuelles sur les sujets business, ou l'augmentation des données en self-service (pour ne pas encombrer la base de données IT).

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  • Into Orbit (OBIEE 11g Launch)

    - by Darryn.Hinett
    After much anticipation, it appears that OBIEE 11g is about to hit the streets. Join Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, for the launch of the latest release of Oracle's business intelligence software. Be the first to hear about Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, the new, industry-leading technology platform for business intelligence, which offers: A powerful end-user experience with rich visualisation, search, and actionable collaboration Advancements in analytics, OLAP, and enterprise reporting, with unmatched performance and scalability Simplified system configuration, life-cycle management, and performance optimisation As well as the keynote and technical general session, break out sessions will cover the following topics: Business Intelligence: From Insight to Action In this session, you will learn about an exciting, industry-first innovation that connects business intelligence directly to your business processes. You can spot an opportunity or issue, and immediately initiate appropriate action directly from your dashboard. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Systems Management and Deployment Learn how you can streamline the process of configuring your system, provisioning users, and monitoring and optimising query performance. Attend this session to hear how new integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager provides unique systems management, superior scalability, and high availability and security benefits, while making upgrades effortless. Extending Business Intelligence Analytics with Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Learn how you can enhance the analytical power and business value of your BI solution with a unified environment for navigating and querying both OLAP and relational data sources. This session will focus on how Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, used with Oracle Essbase, can deliver insight at the speed of thought. Integrated Performance Management If your organisation is using or considering performance management applications such as Oracle's Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management, you will not want to miss this session. See how you can leverage Oracle's BI solution for accessing performance management applications and performing extended financial reporting and analysis. Visualisation and End-user Experience The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence provides an unrivaled end user experience, including rich interactive dashboards, a vast range of animated charting options, integrated search, and more. This session will also include a close look at how you can leverage location data to visualise geo-spatial information.

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  • OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.11 is Available For BI Enterprise and Exalytics

    - by p.anda
    (in via Ian & Martin) OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.11 is Available For BI Enterprise and Exalytics The Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.11 patch set has been released and is available to download from My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com).Per the patch readme: This patch set is available for all customers who are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.6.1, 11.1.1.6.2, 11.1.1.6.2 BP1, 11.1.1.6.4, 11.1.1.6.5, 11.1.1.6.6, 11.1.1.6.7, 11.1.1.6.8, 11.1.1.6.9 and 11.1.1.6.10. Oracle Exalytics customers must only install this Oracle Business Intelligence patch set if it is certified for the specific Oracle Exalytics patch or patch set update that they are applying. For more information see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation and Administration Guide for Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and the Oracle Exalytics certification information. The Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.11 patch set is comprised of the following patches: Patch 16747681 - 1 of 7 Oracle Business Intelligence Installer (BIINST)Patch 16747684 - 2 of 7 Oracle Real Time Decisions (RTD)Patch 16747692 - 3 of 7 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP)Patch 16747699 - 4 of 7 Oracle Business Intelligence ADF Components (BIADFCOMPS)Patch 16747703 - 5 of 7 Enterprise Performance Management Components Installed from BI Installer 11.1.1.6.x (BIFNDNEPM)Patch 16717325 - 6 of 7 Oracle Business Intelligence: (OBIEE)Patch 16747708 - 7 of 7 Oracle Business Intelligence Platform Client Installers and MapViewer Note: - The Readme files for the above patches describe the bugs fixed in each patch, and any known bugs with the patch.- This patch is cumulative, and therefore, contains all of the fixes included in the earlier 11.1.1.6.2, 11.1.1.6.4, 11.1.1.6.5, 11.1.1.6.6, 11.1.1.6.7, 11.1.1.6.8, 11.1.1.6.9 and 11.1.1.6.10 patch sets.- However, lists of fixes from included patch sets need to be looked up in the respective patches' readme files, and are not included in the above patches' readme files.- The instructions to apply the above patches are identical, and are contained in the readme file for patch 16747681.- Please bear in mind, that the readme states to apply patch 13952743 for JDeveloper, too.

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  • BigData and Customer Experience: Happy Together

    - by Isabel F. Peñuelas
    The two big buzzes of the year may lay closer than it appears. Both concepts intersect at various points: BigData and Return of Investment of Marketing Campaigns On a recent post Big Data Is The Future Of Marketing Jeff Dachis explains very clearly how “Big data analytics finally allows marketers to identify, measure, and manage what is positively impacting their Brand”. Regression analysis applied to big data volumes coming from social media will substitute the failed attempts to justify marketing investments on social media in terms of followers and likes, he continues, “the measurement models applied by marketers on TV Campaigns don´t work on social”, we need to study the data with fresh eyes and maybe then we will start understanding and measuring brand engagemet. Social CRM and BigData The real value of Social CRM start by analyzing mass of big data from social media in order of applying social intelligence techniques that allow us to classify new customer niches and communities and define appropriated strategies to contact potential customers. Gartner Says that the Market for Social CRM is on pace to surpass $1 Billion in Revenue by Year-End 2012 but in words of Zach Hofer-Shall, Analyst at Forrester Research “Social customer relationship management is hard” (The Social CRM Arms Race Heats ). To succeed brands need three things: Investing in new social tools, investing in consultancy and investing in infrastructure for massive data storage and analysis. Neither CeX or BigData are easy and cheap wins. But what are the customer benefits of such investments? Big Data and Brand Engagement Time is the most valuable asset of todays consumers: tired of information overload, exhausted by the terabytes of offering, anxious because of not having the same fast multichannel experience with their services’ marketers or preferred goods providers than the one they found on their social media. Yes, I know you have read this before- me too. But is real. The motto of the Customer Experience philosophy of providing a consistent experience through multiple touchpoints that makes the relationship customer/brand easier and valuable finds it basis on understanding customer/s preferences and context for which BigData analysis is another imperative. In summary, I believe that using BigData Analysis in combination with appropriated CeX strategies and technologies is a promising direction for achieving: efficiency and marketing cost-savings; growing the customer base; and increasing customer conversion and retention. In a world: The Direction of Future Marketing.

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  • Customer Engagement: Are Your Customers Engaged With Your Brands?

    - by Michael Snow
    Engaging Customers is Critical for Business Growth This week we'll be spending some time looking at Customer Engagement. We all have stories about how we try to engage our customers better than ever before.  We all know that successfully engaging customers is critical to an organization’s business success. We also know that engaging our customers is more challenging today than ever before. There is so much noise to compete with for getting anyone's attention. Over the last decade and a half we’ve watched as the online channel became a primary one for conducting our business and even managing our lives. And during this whole process or evolution, the customer journey has grown increasingly complex. Customers themselves have assumed increasing power and influence over the purchase process and for setting the tone and pace of the relationships they have with brands and you see the evidence of this in the really high expectations that customers have today. They expect brand experiences that are personalized and relevant -- In other words they want experiences that demonstrate that the brand understands their interests, preferences and past interactions with them. They also expect their experience with a brand and the community surrounding it to be social and interactive – it’s no longer acceptable to have a static, one-way dialogue with your customer base or to fail to connect your customers with fellow customers, or with your employees and partners. And on top of all this, customers expect us to deliver this rich and engaging, personalized and interactive experience, in a consistent way across a variety of channels including web, mobile and social channels or even offline venues such as in-store or via a call center. And as a result, we see that delivery on these expectations and successfully engaging your customers is a great challenge today. Customers expect a personal, engaging and consistent online customer experience. Today’s consumer expects to engage with your brand and the community surrounding it in an interactive and social way. Customers have come to expect a lot for the online customer experience.  ·        They expect it to be personal: o   Accessible:  - Regardless of my device  Via my existing online identities  o   Relevant:  Content that interests me  o   Customized:  To be able to tailor my online experience  ·        They expect it to be engaging: o   Social:  So I can share content with my social networks  o   Intuitive:  To easily find what I need   o   Interactive:  So I can interact with online communities And they expect it to be consistent across the online experience – so you better have your brand and information ducks in a row. These expectations are not only limited to your customers by any means. Your employees (and partners) are also expecting to be empowered with engagement tools across their internal and external communications and interactions with customers, partners and other employees. We had a great conversation with Ted Schadler from Forrester Research entitled: "Mobile is the New Face of Engagement" that is now available On-Demand. Take a look at all the webcasts available to watch from our Social Business Thought Leader Series. Social capabilities have become so pervasive and changed customers’ expectations for their online experiences. The days of one-direction communication with customers are at an end. Today’s customers expect to engage in a dialogue with your brand and the community surrounding it in an interactive and social way. You have at a very short window of opportunity to engage a customer before they go to another site in their pursuit of information, product, or services. In fact, customers who engage with brands via social media tend to spend more that customers who don’t, between 20% and 40% more.  And your customers are also increasingly influenced by their social networks too – 40% of consumers say they factor in Facebook recommendations when making purchasing decisions.  This means a few different things for today’s businesses. Incorporating forms of social interaction such as commenting or reviews as well as tightly integrating your online experience with your customers’ social networking experiences into the online customer experience are crucial for maintaining the eyeballs on your desired pages. --- Notes/Sources: 93% - Cone Finds that Americans Expect Companies to Have a Presence in Social Media - http://www.coneinc.com/content1182 40% of consumers factor in Facebook recommendations when making decisions about purchasing (Increasing Campaign Effectiveness with Social Media, Syncapse, March 2011) 20%-40% - Customers who engage with a company via social media spend this percentage more with that company than other customers (Source: Bain & Company Report – Putting Social Media to Work)

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  • Instapaper Updates; Sports Native Social Media Sharing, Browsing, and More

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Popular web content manager Instantpaper has updated to version 3.0 and brings a host of new features like native support for social media sharing, a recommendation system, in-app web browsing and more. Last year we shared a detailed guide with you on how to use Instapaper to save content from the web to your iOS device for later reading–definitely check it out if you’re unfamiliar with Instapaper. Some of the new features in Instapaper 3.0 include a social recommendation system where you can follow other Instapaper users and see the articles they are liking/sharing, native support for sharing to Twitter, Facebook, and other social media systems, smart rotation lock on the display, and more efficient article downloading and storage. Check out the link below to read a full rundown of the new features on the Instapaper blog. Instapaper 3.0 Is Here! [Instapaper via O'Reilly Radar] HTG Explains: What Are Character Encodings and How Do They Differ?How To Make Disposable Sleeves for Your In-Ear MonitorsMacs Don’t Make You Creative! So Why Do Artists Really Love Apple?

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  • 4 Key Ingredients for the Cloud

    - by Kellsey Ruppel
    It's a short week here with the US Thanksgiving Holiday. So, before we put on our stretch pants and get ready to belly up to the dinner table for turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, let's spend a little time this week talking about the Cloud (kind of like the feathery whipped goodness that tops the infamous Thanksgiving pumpkin pie!) But before we dive into the Cloud, let's do a side by side comparison of the key ingredients for each. Cloud Whipped Cream  Application Integration  1 cup heavy cream  Security  1/4 cup sugar  Virtual I/O  1 teaspoon vanilla  Storage  Chilled Bowl It’s no secret that millions of people are connected to the Internet. And it also probably doesn’t come as a surprise that a lot of those people are connected on social networking sites.  Social networks have become an excellent platform for sharing and communication that reflects real world relationships and they play a major part in the everyday lives of many people. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and hundreds of others have transformed the way we interact and communicate with one another.Social networks are becoming more than just an online gathering of friends. They are becoming a destination for ideation, e-commerce, and marketing. But it doesn’t just stop there. Some organizations are utilizing social networks internally, integrated with their business applications and processes and the possibility of social media and cloud integration is compelling. Forrester alone estimates enterprise cloud computing to grow to over $240 billion by 2020. It’s hard to find any current IT project today that is NOT considering cloud-based deployments. Security and quality of service concerns are no longer at the forefront; rather, it’s about focusing on the right mix of capabilities for the business. Cloud vs. On-Premise? Policies & governance models? Social in the cloud? Cloud’s increasing sophistication, security in applications, mobility, transaction processing and social capabilities make it an attractive way to manage information. And Oracle offers all of this through the Oracle Cloud and Oracle Social Network. Oracle Social Network is a secure private network that provides a broad range of social tools designed to capture and preserve information flowing between people, enterprise applications, and business processes. By connecting you with your most critical applications, Oracle Social Network provides contextual, real-time communication within and across enterprises. With Oracle Social Network, you and your teams have the tools you need to collaborate quickly and efficiently, while leveraging the organization’s collective expertise to make informed decisions and drive business forward. Oracle Social Network is available as part of a portfolio of application and platform services within the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Cloud offers self-service business applications delivered on an integrated development and deployment platform with tools to rapidly extend and create new services. Oracle Social Network is pre-integrated with the Fusion CRM Cloud Service and the Fusion HCM Cloud Service within the Oracle Cloud. If you are looking for something to watch as you veg on the couch in a post-turkey dinner hangover, you might consider watching these how-to videos! And yes, it is perfectly ok to have that 2nd piece of pie

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  • Webcast: Oracle's Vision For The Socially-Enabled Enterprise

    - by Michael Hylton
    Smart companies are developing social media strategies to engage customers, gain brand insights, and transform employee collaboration and recruitment. Oracle is powering this transformation with the most comprehensive enterprise social platform that lets you:     Monitor and engage in social conversations     Collect and analyze social data     Build and grow brands through social media     Integrate enterprise-wide social functionality into a single system     Create rich social applications Join Oracle President Mark Hurd and senior Oracle executives to learn more about Oracle’s vision for the social-enabled enterprise.  Click here to register.

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  • Webcast: Oracle's Vision For The Socially-Enabled Enterprise

    - by Michael Hylton
    Smart companies are developing social media strategies to engage customers, gain brand insights, and transform employee collaboration and recruitment. Oracle is powering this transformation with the most comprehensive enterprise social platform that lets you:     Monitor and engage in social conversations     Collect and analyze social data     Build and grow brands through social media     Integrate enterprise-wide social functionality into a single system     Create rich social applications Join Oracle President Mark Hurd and senior Oracle executives to learn more about Oracle’s vision for the social-enabled enterprise.  Click here to register.

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  • SharePoint vire vers le social, le Cloud et le mobile, Microsoft dévoile les nouveautés de la version 2013 et son intégration avec Yammer

    SharePoint vire vers le social, le Cloud et le mobile Microsoft dévoile les nouveautés de la version 2013 et son intégration avec Yammer A l'occasion de la Conférence SharePoint 2012 de Las Vegas, Microsoft dévoile les nouvelles fonctionnalités de SharePoint 2013. Pour cette mise à jour majeure de suite d'outils de Microsoft pour application et portail d'entreprise, Microsoft a effectué d'importants investissements dans le Social, le Cloud et le mobile. Jusqu'ici, Microsoft avait dévoilé peu d'information sur les fonctionnalités sociales de SharePoint inspiré de Yammer. Pour rappel, Yammer est outil permettant la mise en place d'un réseau social interne pour une e...

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  • Groups equivalent for social plugin Facepile

    - by oivvio
    I need to do something similar to the Facepile social plugin for a site I'm working on. The problem is the client does not have have a Facebook page, but instead has a Facebook Group (with some 4000+ members). I guess I could urge the client to move their group members to a page, and I might do that in the future. But before I do I want to research how we're going to do Facebook-integration more thoroughly. For now I just need a quick fix.

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  • The five steps of business intelligence adoption: where are you?

    - by Red Gate Software BI Tools Team
    When I was in Orlando and New York last month, I spoke to a lot of business intelligence users. What they told me suggested a path of BI adoption. The user’s place on the path depends on the size and sophistication of their organisation. Step 1: A company with a database of customer transactions will often want to examine particular data, like revenue and unit sales over the last period for each product and territory. To do this, they probably use simple SQL queries or stored procedures to produce data on demand. Step 2: The results from step one are saved in an Excel document, so business users can analyse them with filters or pivot tables. Alternatively, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) might be used to generate a report of the SQL query for display on an intranet page. Step 3: If these queries are run frequently, or business users want to explore data from multiple sources more freely, it may become necessary to create a new database structured for analysis rather than CRUD (create, retrieve, update, and delete). For example, data from more than one system — plus external information — may be incorporated into a data warehouse. This can become ‘one source of truth’ for the business’s operational activities. The warehouse will probably have a simple ‘star’ schema, with fact tables representing the measures to be analysed (e.g. unit sales, revenue) and dimension tables defining how this data is aggregated (e.g. by time, region or product). Reports can be generated from the warehouse with Excel, SSRS or other tools. Step 4: Not too long ago, Microsoft introduced an Excel plug-in, PowerPivot, which allows users to bring larger volumes of data into Excel documents and create links between multiple tables.  These BISM Tabular documents can be created by the database owners or other expert Excel users and viewed by anyone with Excel PowerPivot. Sometimes, business users may use PowerPivot to create reports directly from the primary database, bypassing the need for a data warehouse. This can introduce problems when there are misunderstandings of the database structure or no single ‘source of truth’ for key data. Step 5: Steps three or four are often enough to satisfy business intelligence needs, especially if users are sophisticated enough to work with the warehouse in Excel or SSRS. However, sometimes the relationships between data are too complex or the queries which aggregate across periods, regions etc are too slow. In these cases, it can be necessary to formalise how the data is analysed and pre-build some of the aggregations. To do this, a business intelligence professional will typically use SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to create a multidimensional model — or “cube” — that more simply represents key measures and aggregates them across specified dimensions. Step five is where our tool, SSAS Compare, becomes useful, as it helps review and deploy changes from development to production. For us at Red Gate, the primary value of SSAS Compare is to establish a dialog with BI users, so we can develop a portfolio of products that support creation and deployment across a range of report and model types. For example, PowerPivot and the new BISM Tabular model create a potential customer base for tools that extend beyond BI professionals. We’re interested in learning where people are in this story, so we’ve created a six-question survey to find out. Whether you’re at step one or step five, we’d love to know how you use BI so we can decide how to build tools that solve your problems. So if you have a sixty seconds to spare, tell us on the survey!

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