Come a long way from Panorama! Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Posted by kalyanimath in Uncategorized.Tags: Gartner, OLAP, SSAS
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From its first foray into OLAP Server Business with the acquisition of the Israeli-based Panorama Software, Microsoft has now climbed to top rank in the Gartner’s Latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.
Personally I thought it was meant to happen but am surprised on how quickly the industry has seen the integrated attractiveness of Microsoft’s Office Suite with SQLServer 2005/ Katmai & the new Performance Point Server.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104502&subSection=All+Stories
Timeline showing Microsoft’s OLAP Services *Source Wikipedia
| July 1, 1996 | Microsoft opens new team to build an OLAP product, codenamed Plato (permutation of letters from OLAP) |
| July 15, 1996 | Panorama Software delegation meets with Microsoft |
| October 27, 1996 | Microsoft announces acquisition of Panorama Software development team |
| November 1998 | OLAP Services 7.0 (codename Sphinx) ships |
| August 2000 | Analysis Services 2000 (codename Shiloh) ships |
| November 2001 | XML for Analysis SDK 1.0 ships |
| April 2003 | ADOMD.NET and XML for Analysis SDK 1.1 ship |
| October 28, 2005 | Analysis Services 2005 (codename Yukon) ships |
| 2008 | SQL Server 2008 (KATMAI) |
