Come a long way from Panorama!

kalyanimath — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:12:51 +0000

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)

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Come a long way from Panorama!