Master Data Management: Why does it matter?

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What is Master Data Management? Master Data Management, or MDM, (since every IT person loves TLA’s (three-letter-acronyms) is the process of cleansing all existing, managing the generation of, and governing the entry of information into a database. This process applies specifically to Conformed Dimensions, meaning that MDM doesn’t directly apply to transactional data; rather it … Continued

SAP Dashboards: Reduce, Recycle, & Reuse your way to Better Performance

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What is SAP Dashboards? SAP Business Objects Dashboards is the 4.x equivalent to what we’ve formerly called Xcelsius.  SAP has made some improvements to this newer version, amongst other things there is now an integrated Query Builder option reducing the dependency on LiveOffice and/or Query as a Web Service. For more information about SAP BusinessObjects … Continued

Staff lunch focus for February 2014: Learning & Development

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Axian Staff Lunch on February 20, 2014. Our main focus was on Learning & Development – Strategy and Overview, presented by Scott Brown (Axian COO) and the Ops Team. Axian is a strong proponent for continuous learning and development amongst our employees, to assist our Staff in growing, evolving, … Continued

A Decade of Mono

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Still Kicking For those who track this stuff, Mono will turn 10 years old this summer. Since June 30th 2004, the Mono team has been relentlessly trailing the ever evolving CLR (Microsoft’s implementation of the CLI), and hasn’t seemed to stop or get bored with the idea. At time of writing, they still trail a … Continued

Staff lunch focus for January 2014: Axian in 2013-2014 and Scrum Training

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Axian Staff Lunch on January 16, 2014. Here’s an overview from our two presenters, Frank Helle and Cory Morgan: Frank Helle, Axian’s CEO, updated employees on our 2013 accomplishments and 2014 challenges. “In 2013 Axian continued to grow profitable revenues and its local client base, while remaining debt-free with … Continued

Big Data, In-Memory Databases, and the Extinction of the EDW

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“Big Data” is everywhere, and attempts at defining it yield as many questions as bad answers.  The good news is that it represents a legitimate progression of analytics and computing.   Unfortunately, like many new concepts the term/phrase has been misused, mangled, misconstrued, misperceived, and can easily lead to bad practices and a failed project.  Many … Continued

MicroStrategy Mobile: The Race to (the Mobile BI) Space Winner!

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MicroStrategy’s Mobile History MicroStrategy is a leader in the Mobile BI space.  The first Apple iPad hit the marketplace in April 2010 and MicroStrategy unveiled their Mobile BI capabilities and application to iTunes by September 2010.  It gave them a distinct advantage in the newly forming mobile marketplace.  Many of the other big vendors struggled to … Continued