Knowledge base

Overview This is part one of a series discussing Cognos Analytics 11. Part 1 will take a closer look at the interface, data modules and the new dashboarding module. Part two will discuss report authoring, installation and migration/upgrading.

Introduction The strength and the beauty of QlikView lies in its powerful associative engine and zero wait analytics functionality. In these characteristics we think QlikView stands head and shoulders above other tools. This being said – QlikView is not the best report writing tool. QlikView has been lacking state-of-the-art capabilities to produce hard copies and schedule reports.

At the time of writing SQL Server 2016 is in preview (CTP 3.1). We will discuss some of the most interesting changes to this new release from a BI perspective. For a full list of changes, I refer to the official SQL Server 2016 website. Integration Services SQL Server 2016 introduces quite some interesting improvements to Integration Services:

Introduction Power BI is the collective term from Microsoft for an organization-wide Self-service business intelligence (BI) infrastructure. Power BI empowers end users and provides tools to take care of an end-to-end business intelligence scenario for Self-service BI solutions: