Nice Read: Interview with Nigel Pendse

Posted by Gilles on 28/01/2010 under Articles, Nice Reads | Be the First to Comment

There is a very interesting interview with Nigel Pendse on the blog from Rittman Mead Consulting. Nigel Pendse is a business intelligence and OLAP analyst and the editor of The BI Verdict (formerly The OLAP Report) and author of The BI Survey (previously known as The OLAP Survey). The interview is about the BI tools market in general, but with a specific paragraph containing some good comments on Qlikview, in memory analysis and powerpivot.  Nigels most important conclusions: Qlikview is blazing fast, easy to use and aimed towards the business user, but less useful in large enterprise deployments. Powerpivot is, according to Nigel, just a way to push upgrading to office 2010, the all new vertipaq in memory engine is very impressive and powerpivot isn’t able to handle very complex Analysis Services cubes. Read more of this article »

How To: ABC (Selective Inventory Control) analysis

Posted by William on 04/01/2010 under How To | Be the First to Comment

The ABC-analysis (read more) is an often used method in logistics to divide the product collection in three different degrees, sorted on products with the highest revenue. This analysis gives valuable insights when removing (or adding) products from the collection. Products with low revenue could be considered for removal, cleaning up space in the warehouse for other products.

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