Jen Underwood from the SQL Server BI Blog, describes her journey of evaluating Microsoft BI tool offerings to support the requirements of an Enterprise BI Project.
In the article Jen outlines the enterprise dashboard requirements that had to be supported and highlights (for her BI
It’s quite interesting that Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 release has a number of In Memory performance optimisation features. The clock speeds of CPUs have not significantly increased over the last few years but memory has become relativity cheap and the 64 bit Windows platforms now provide substantial scope to run high memory footprints.
Here’s an article by Mark Kromer (SQL Magazine – SQL Server BI Blog) on his views on the Old BI (traditional ETL/DW) vs. New BI (Big Data Hadoop) paradigms, and how a hybrid approach of traditional ETL/DW with Hadoop and MPP is emerging.