Monthly Archives: September 2011

Denali and CALUMO – It just works!

We did some testing of CALUMO with the new version of SQL Server code named Denali and the results are in. Denali and CALUMO work beautifully.  There was nothing to do other than install Denali! CALUMO can view cubes and report data using the new tabular SSAS cubes and the traditional UDM cubes (introduced in SQL 2005).

Remember, the UDM is a true OLAP cube and tabular models are tables… Continue reading

Business Intelligence in Universities – Briefing event co-hosted by Microsoft and CALUMO – 12 October 2011

Ray Fleming from Microsoft posted this event on his blog.  You can read it below or click here to go to his blog.
We’re [Microsoft] co-hosting a free ‘Business Intelligence in Universities’ event in Melbourne on the morning of the 12th October, at our Microsoft’s Freshwater Place offices. It will be a focused roundtable event, where you’ll be… Continue reading

$45B+ PC vendor chooses CALUMO for Sales and Operations Reporting and Forecasting

Last week, an international PC company with a market cap over $45B (who must remain nameless for now) decided on CALUMO to be their Performance Portal for Reporting and Forecasting for the Asia Pacific Sales and Operations teams.

The PC company believe the sales team should be better equipped with information. The PC company also… Continue reading

Join us for an informal meeting of minds…Club CALUMO User Group

This event is open to organisations using the Microsoft BI stack – typically SQL, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, PowerPivot… but also SharePoint & Excel! Join us and hear from our clients who will share their BI experience. During the evening [pizza and drinks provided] we will also get in some SSAS & CALUMO demonstrations, SSAS Tips & Tricks, and host the ever popular Open Forum, where… Continue reading

Extreme Business Intelligence?

This is a great example of using gestures to interrogate your data.  You can drill down, scroll and focus on charts of interest.  I am not sure it will catch on though.  When you watch the video you will see the presenter waving his arms around to get new information.

I think… Continue reading

What is CALUMO Rosetta ?

Rosetta is a lot of different things to us at CALUMO.

Its a way of measuring BI systems success.  Its a way of driving BI systems success.  It’s our model for implementation and its a business language for driving benefit.

So how do we value Business Intelligence projects?  At CALUMO we apply a tool we call Rosetta. We got the name from The actual

Decision Fatigue – How to avoid it

I subscribe to James Adonis’s fortnightly email and this week was excellent.  This article is about the best time to make a decision and tips on managing people. James writes here about managing your subordinates but it his points are applicable to peers, consultants, your kids and even your boss.

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