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Rovers' poor record against West Ham United continued as they could only draw 1-1 to the bottom club at a chilly Ewood Park.Despite a raft of postponements elsewhere in the Premier League the ground staff worked tirelessly to ensure the game went ahead but their efforts weren't rewarded with a home victory.Chances were few and far between in a tentative first half,. Morten Gamst Pedersen forcing a save from Boffin, whilst Luis Boa Morte did likewise with Paul Robinson.The second half sprang into life five minutes after the restart when Ryan Nelsen scrambled the ball over the line to give Rovers the lead.But with Jason Roberts, Chris Samba and his replacement Phil Jones all limping off through injury they took their toll and West Ham took a deserved leveller after a period of pressure, Junior Stanislas firing home.David Dunn thought he had regained the lead for Rovers when he fired home from close-range, but referee Mike Dean spotted an infringement as the ball made its way into the area.Morten Gamst Pedersen went close with two late free-kicks, but it will be the visitors who will leave Ewood Park the happier of the two sides.
For his first game in charge Steve Kean made two changes from the side that face Bolton last time out.
Into the side came Mame Biram Diouf and David Dunn, with Martin Olsson and Phil Jones dropping to the bench. For a 4-4-2 formation.
The opening exchanges were bright with Mame Biram Diouf posing a threat early on. But one through ball from Diouf for partner Jason Roberts saw the striker pull up with what looked like a hamstring injury.
Roberts unable to continue resulting in Benjani replacing him on ten minutes. The Zimbabwean immediately in the thick of the action when in attempting to get onto a Pedersen centre the ball fell to Michel Salgado, but his left footed half-volley flew over the bar.
There was a certain zip to Rovers play, the midfield four of El-Hadji Diouf, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen and David Dunn all seeing plenty of the ball, but that killer pass, that telling ball would elude them time after time as they were unable to break the visitors two banks of four.
Claims for a penalty when a David Dunn centre struck the arm of Scott Parker, whilst debutant goalkeeper Ruud Boffin was almost caught in possession as Mame Diouf closed in.
A Pedersen free-kick appeared to be Rovers' best route to goal in the first half, but the Norwegian was denied by the Belgium stopper with a smart save on the half hour.
At the back Rovers looked decidedly edgy with the visitors having the better of the goalmouth opportunities as the half drew to a close.
Luis Boa Morte set Frederic Piquionne free down the left channel, but his shot flashed wide of Paul Robinson's near post.
Moments later the favour was returned as Piquionne fed Boa Morte in a similar position, his effort was on target but Robinson made the save at the near post.
As Mike Dean blew for half time, it certainly hadn't been the winter warmer all had hoped.
That all changed five minutes after restart when the deadlock was broken.
The home side had threatened with a series Pedersen corner kicks, but as one was cleared, Brett Emerton did superbly to cross from the right, Ryan Nelsen saw his initial shot from close-range by Boffin but the rebound went straight to the Kiwi and he kneed the ball over the line for his second goal of the season.
West Ham's response was to make a double change, bringing on Carlton Cole and Junior Stanislas for Spector and Barrera. Whilst Rovers were forced into a change of their own after Samba limped off to be replaced by Phil Jones.
Unfortunately for young Jones his time on the field would be less than ten minutes as he was forced to hobble off on 67 minutes. Scottish under 21 centre half Grant Hanley on to replace his former Academy team-mate for his Ewood debut.
Matthew Upson was the width of the post from getting the visitors back on level terms when a centre deflected into his path off Pedersen, and from that West Ham built up a head of steam that would result in the equaliser.
Carlton Cole missed a golden chance on 74 minutes when he headed over when unmarked in the area, but four minutes on they weren't so wasteful.
As David Dunn and Tal Ben-Haim tussled on the right the Israeli got the better of the Rover and his ball found Scott Parker. The midfielder twisted and turned into the area, the ball finding its way nicely to Junior Stanislas and he steered the ball past Paul Robinson into the far corner of the goal for an equaliser that had been coming.
With Rovers having made all of their substitutions due to injuries Steve Kean was unable to freshen up his side further, Avram Grant made his final change with Benni McCarthy back on the Ewood turf.
David Dunn fired over from the edge of the box, then Rovers thought they had regained the lead with eight minutes to go when David Dunn found the back of the net from a corner kick, but Mike Dean had blown for an infringement in the six yard box.
Morten Gamst Pedersen inches off target with a trademark free-kick from the right as Rovers pressed late. In added time he'd go closer with another another free-kick.
Rovers don't have a great Premier League record against West Ham, and it would be case once again.
ROVERS: Robinson, Givet, Nelsen, Samba (c) (sub Jones 57 mins (sub Hanley 67 mins)), Salgado, Dunn, Pedersen, Emerton, EH Diouf, MB Diouf, Roberts (sub Benjani 10 mins).
Subs not used: Bunn (GK), Olsson, Kalinic, Hoilett.
WEST HAM: Boffin, Ben-Haim, Gabbidon, Tomkins, Dyer (sub McCarthy 82 mins), Parker, Barrera 9sub Stanislas 57 mins), Boa Morte, Upson (c), Spector (sub Cole 57 mins), Piquionne.
Subs not used: Larkins (GK), Reid, Faubert.
Booked: Emerton, Givet (Rovers), Ben Haim, Tomkins, Boa Morte (West Ham).
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The Raid on Gananoque was an action conducted by the U.S. Army on September 21, 1812 against Gananoque, Upper Canada. It resulted in the capture of stores and prisoners and the destruction of the storehouse.
On September 21, 1812, during the War of 1812, a United States force of some 200 regulars and militia under Captain Benjamin Forsyth attacked Gananoque, Ontario. The village was an important forwarding point for supplies moving up the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to Kingston and was garrisoned by a detachment of the 2nd Leeds Militia under Colonel Joel Stone. After a spirited resistance, Colonel Stone withdrew his force comprising two subalterns and about forty soldiers, and the Americans seized the stores and burned the government depot. As a result of this raid, a blockhouse was begun in Gananoque the following month and completed in 1813.[1]— Raid on Gananoque plaque
Forsyth led a force of approximately 100 regulars and militia in boats from Ogdensburg, New York to Gananoque, arriving on September 21, 1813.[2] The Americans surprised the 2nd Regiment of the Leeds militia. A large portion of the Leeds militia retreated under American fire. The remainder, under the command of Captain Joshua Adams of Glen Tay, at the storehouse, numbering fewer than Forsyth's troops, were forced to surrender the government stores, including arms, ammunition and food.[3]
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www.MattDavisHomes.com, Call Matt 269-967-3321. TRADITIONAL HISTORIC CHARM W/MODERN UPDATES! The list of updates is extensive in this outstanding historic home sitting on 3/4 of an acre, just North of Downtown near Gordon Elementary School. Features include; Open living/formal dining, large kitchen w/new appliances, 2 main floor bedrooms, 2 upstairs bedrooms, newly renovated bathroom w/tile and fresh fixtures, refinished hardwood floors, new windows, fireplace, useable basement w/block wall foundation (used as rec area and sealed for water intrusion), screened porch, huge detached garage w/workspace, extensive concrete, new asphalt drive, new block retaining wall, new washer/dryer and more. Other ''new's'' inclue; high-e furnace, plumbing, gutters, water heater and softener, plus, plus..
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Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 26 Oracle BI platform Build and Manage functionality is provided by two toolsets: Oracle Enterprise Manager: main management framework and DBA toolset as well as the toolset for OLAP build and manage. Oracle9i Warehouse Builder: Component of Oracle Internet Developer Suite Provides capabilities for: Managing relational data warehousing resources Designing relational data warehouse models ETL (Extraction Transformation and load). OS Independent Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 27 Oracle Partnerships Do not play a major role within Oracle's business intelligence platform. The "complete and integrated infrastructure" means that every platform component is provided by Oracle and is based on Oracle9i. Oracle's R&D organization controls the design, development, and support of the entire platform. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 28 Oracle Partnerships Oracle uses partnerships for business platform tools and applications. Although the firm currently competes with these partners with its own business intelligence tools and applications. Oracle's BI platform does not include partner technology Oracle has the important advantage of control over the platform's components, technology, and integration. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 29 Oracle Packaging and Pricing Oracle offers little bundling. All the components its business intelligence Sum = $of95,000 platform are separately packaged and priced. Build and manage components have separately priced and packaged sub-components. O9i Enterprise Edition : $40,000 / processor. + O9i OLAP: $20,000 / processor. + O9i Data Mining: $20,000 / processor. + O Warehouse Builder: $5,000 per named user. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 30 IBM BI platform Based on DB2 The DB2 Universal Database (UDB) provides relational data warehousing capabilities. The database also integrates basic relational data warehousing build and manage capabilities. OLAP functionality and OLAP build and manage functionality are provided by DB2 OLAP Server. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 31 IBM BI platform DB2 OLAP Server: feature of DB2 Enterprise Server Edition that is OEMed from Hyperion and re-branded. Data mining functionality: provided by DB2 Intelligent Miner and DB2 OLAP Miner. Warehouse Manager: enhance the integrated relational build and manage functionality of DB2. DB2 OLAP Administrative Services provides OLAP build and manage capabilities. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 32 IBM Partnerships IBM relies on a set of partners to assemble it BI platform. The most critical partnership : Hyperion Solutions. Partners also provide ETL and data cleansing The partnership with Hyperion: gave IBM OLAP capabilities instantly allows IBM to compete in an important market where it had no previous presence and where it had made no investment in R&D. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 33 IBM Partnerships At long term: disadvantage to IBM's business intelligence platform and to its BI customers and partners. Why? Because OLAP is more an add-on than an integral component of IBM's BI platform. IBM has no direct control over OLAP technology, its development, and its integration within its BI platform. Given the importance of OLAP, IBM should either acquire Hyperion or develop its own OLAP. Until then, its BI platform will always be at a disadvantage. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 34 IBM Packaging and Pricing Every component of IBM's BI platform is separately packaged and priced Individual components offer good value, but the whole platform can be quite costly. DB2 UDB (Enterprise Server Edition V8.1 ): $25,000 per processor. ( provides the basic build and manage functionality of Data Warehouse Center) Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 35 IBM Packaging and Pricing DB2 OLAP Server: $28,000 per server + additional $1,500 fee per named user. (includes the build and manage capabilities of DB2 Administrative Services and the data mining functionality of DB2 OLAP Miner). Intelligent Miner: 3 components. $75,000 per processor for the 3. For advanced relational build and manage capabilities: DB2 Warehouse Manager : $10,600 per processor. SUM = $138,600 without external ETL and data cleansing tools Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 36 Hyperion BI Platform The technology platform for Hyperion's performance management solutions is Essbase, its admired OLAP Server. The firm states its objective "is to be the leading global provider of business performance management solutions." These solutions are designed to automate the business performance management process of strategy setting, modeling, planning, performance monitoring, reporting and analysis. Essbase is evolving away from a general purpose OLAP facility and toward a platform for supporting a very specific type of BI application. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 37 Hyperion BI Platform additional platform components not offered by Hyperion are required, most significantly relational databases, data mining tools and analytic applications. Hyperion does not provide a complete business intelligence platform. Rather its Essbase product can provide the OLAP functionality within another leading comprehensive BI platform. Essbase integrates OLAP build and manage functionality. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 38 Hyperion Partnerships Hyperion must partner in order to expand from its OLAP niche and address all BI platform requirements. IBM is Hyperion's most important business intelligence platform partner. Hyperion also has many BI tools and applications partners that are empowered by the OLAP capabilities of Essbase. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 39 Hyperion Packaging and Pricing Hyperion Essbase has a pricing model for with two elements: the per server fee is $28,000 / processor the per named user fee is $1,500. Essbase packaging includes: OLAP server, administrative tools, and build and manage tools. Essbase installations most commonly use relational data warehouses as the data sources for Essbase cubes. This approach requires the purchase a complete data warehousing infrastructure in addition to the Essbase, which is worth another $28,000 SUM = $56,000 Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 40 Product Comparison Platform Strategy Comparison Comparing BI databases Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 41 Comparing BI databases Microsoft SQL Server 2000 All of the Microsoft's BI platform technologies and products are implemented as SQL Server 2000 No-charge features and are included "in the box" with this relational database—build and manage facilities, OLAP, and data mining. Improved significantly from previous version Scalability has been its limitation historically Architectural improvements to its database engine, Data warehousing features A big boost from fast SMP hardware have enabled SQL Server to compete with IBM and Oracle across most of the scalability curve. The SQL Server in BI ranges from the low-end, the middle and touches the high end in terms of capacity and scalability. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 42 Comparing BI databases Oracle9i Object/relational database that has long packaged excellent data warehousing features. Wide range of index types, rich join capabilities, and multiple approaches to partitioning. Became a well-integrated business intelligence platform. Release 1: Oracle added OLAP capabilities within its database as well as enhancing build and manage capabilities to support multidimensional warehouses and marts. Release 2: OLAP capabilities were improved and data mining capabilities were added. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 43 Comparing BI databases Oracle9i Oracle9i now has the advantages of comprehensiveness and integration for all aspects of a BI platform. However, the database also has disadvantages as a BI platform. OLAP and data mining capabilities are newly implemented in the database and neither is well proven or widely used. Even if the capabilities are offered as database features, they're separately packaged and priced, adding considerably to the initial platform cost. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 44 Comparing BI databases IBM DB2 (UDB) IBM's strategic business intelligence database Version for Windows, the leading Unix platforms, IBM S/390 mainframe and AS/400 midrange platforms. Provides good usability in its administrative tools. DB2 OLAP Server provides the business intelligence database for OLAP. DB2 OLAP Server is Hyperion's Essbase, OEMed, integrated, and re-branded by IBM. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 45 Comparing BI databases IBM DB2 (UDB) DB2 (UDB): Not tightly integrated within the IBM business intelligence platform. Requires separate build and manage tools and Data mining supported till last version. July 2001, IBM acquired the database technology of Informix Software (Informix RDBMS & Redbrick data warehouse). both viable BI databases. To date functionalities of both remained separate from DB2 and excluded from IBM's BI platform strategy) Future ?? Customers are confused. They need direction from IBM. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 46 Comparing BI databases Hyperion Hyperion does not include a BI database. Hyperion should be embedded into a complete BI solution product like IBM DB2 Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 47 Product Comparison Platform Strategy Comparison Comparing BI databases Comparing OLAP Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 48 Comparing OLAP Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP functionality includes: The building and management of multidimensional OLAP data models Data Transformation Service: loading and updating of the data models in easily configurable MOLAP, ROLAP, and HOLAP stores a large set of predefined data access and analytic functionality Quantitative analysis functions that include statistical processing capabilities In addition, user-defined functions are supported and Analysis Services provides the documentation and tools for developing them. That's good power and flexibility. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 49 Comparing OLAP Oracle Many innocations: a multidimensional storage model through 9i's Abstract Data Type (ADT) object technology features OLAP query and analytic processing functions within the database provides access to those functions through a set of programming interfaces. OLAP resources integrated within its metadata and management frameworks. Oracle9i OLAP's storage management and interfaces appear to be brand new. OLAP resources can be managed with the same tools as relational and object resources. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 50 Comparing OLAP Oracle Advantage: OLAP, relational, and object resources are made scalable, reliable, secure, and manageable by the same set of mechanisms. Disadvantage: lack of maturity. Oracle's BI platform can implement MOLAP, ROLAP, and HOLAP storage models. Rich analytic processing capabilities Handles the general OLAP aggregation, allocation, and multidimensional navigation functionality. +++ Also packages financial calculations and functions, statistical functions and statistical forecasting, and regression. Microsoft and Hyperion: also package good numeric 51 Bouayad & Bouzoubaa analytic functionality. Forecasting is unique to Oracle Comparing OLAP IBM and Hyperion IBM business intelligence platform uses the OLAP capabilities of the re-branded Hyperion Essbase. Essbase is widely used, well proven, and has broad support from applications and tools partners. Essbase support many platforms: Essbase has become less attractive as a dedicated OLAP system as Microsoft and Oracle has integrated OLAP capabilities into their relational databases, creating comprehensive BI platforms. It requires its own data store, separately managed from the relational data warehousing data store, and its own build and manage toolset. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 52 Comparing OLAP IBM and Hyperion Hybrid Analysis is the best new feature of DB2 OLAP Server V8.1 Hybrid Analysis allows administrators to define a multidimensional cube that stores its high-level (aggregated or summary) members within a multidimensional store and its low level (detail) members within a relational store. The OLAP Server accesses and prepares the relational data and presents this data to the application as if it were native multidimensional data. It adds HOLAP (Hybrid OLAP) support to the OLAP storage model of IBM's BI platform. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 53 Do You know? The difference between MOLAP cubes ROLAP cubes HOLAP cubes Aggregations Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 54 Product Comparison Platform Strategy Comparison Comparing BI databases Comparing OLAP Comparing Data Mining Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 55 Comparing Data Mining Microsoft Microsoft includes data mining capabilities to the OLAP functionality packaged in SQL Server Analysis Services. The best features integration within Microsoft's BI platform, wizard-driven model building, and the capability to mine relational, OLAP, or external OLE DB data. Analysis Services implements only two data mining algorithms: decision trees and clustering. These algorithms does not cover broad range of problems, additional algorithms would add flexibility. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 56 Comparing Data Mining Oracle Delivered through Oracle 9i Data Mining, a separately packaged and priced feature of Oracle9i. The best features are the integration within the Oracle9i database, the use of the database for input and metadata, and the broad range of functions and algorithms. Data visualization functionality is missing. There's no support for a data mining process. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 57 Comparing Data Mining IBM IBM has been active in data mining much longer than Microsoft or Oracle. IBM Intelligent Miner product has three components: DB2 Intelligent Miner Visualization DB2 Intelligent Miner Modeling DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring Each supports a key phase of the traditional data mining process. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 58 Comparing Data Mining IBM All three are separately priced and packaged. The strengths of DB2 Intelligent Miner are the breadth and depth of its data mining algorithms and its modular and comprehensive coverage of the data mining process. Its limitations are complexity—the tradeoff for its power and flexibility, and support only for relational input. Not many business intelligence tools and applications suppliers have either. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 59 Comparing OLAP IBM uses a single statistical algorithm to discover cells within an OLAP dimension that have unexpected or outlying values and presents them visually to analysts. Analysts can then use traditional OLAP approaches to determine and to understand the causes for value differences. This is a very useful data mining application. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 60 Comparing OLAP IBM OLAP Server Miner, unlike Intelligent Miner, does not require skill and experience in data mining. OLAP experience is all that you need to use it. This is the right approach to data mining applications. They offer broader and deeper data mining functionality than either Microsoft or Oracle, but they'd be stronger if they were integrated into a single coherent offering. It's a disadvantage that Intelligent Miner doesn't mine OLAP data. It's also a disadvantage that DB2 OLAP Miner has only a single data mining algorithm Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 61 Product Comparison Platform Strategy Comparison Comparing BI databases Comparing OLAP Comparing Data Mining Comparing Interfaces Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 62 Interfaces Microsoft Oracle SQL & PL/SQL ODBC & JDBC IBM Relational Interfaces SQL Transact/SQL ODBC & JDBC OLE DB ADO ADO.NET OLAP Interfaces MDX OLAP DML Essbase API DSO Java OLAP API Pivot Table Service SQL and PL/SQL XML for Analysis Data mining Interfaces DSO Oracle9i Data Pivot Table Service Mining API Wizards (Java) Bouayad & Bouzoubaa SQL & DB2 SQL ODBC & JDBC Hyperion NA Essbase API Intelligent Miner NA C++ SQL Visual tools DB2 OLAP Miner Essbase API 63 Product Comparison Platform Strategy Comparison Comparing BI databases Comparing OLAP Comparing Interfaces Comparing Data Mining Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 64 Build and Manage Capabilities : Toolsets Microsoft Analysis Manager provides comprehensive relational and OLAP build and manage capabilities. Oracle IBM Oracle9i Warehouse Builder provides relational build and manage capabilities. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides OLAP build and manage capabilities. DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Center (DWC) provides basic relational basic build and manage capabilities. DB2 Warehouse Manager adds additional relational build and manage capabilities. DB2 OLAP Administrative Services provides OLAP build and manage capabilities. Hyperion Essbase Administration Services provide OLAP build and manage capabilities. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 65 Integration Server provides support for loading and Build and Manage Capabilities : Extraction data sources Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, Files, Access 2000, Excel 2000, Microsoft Visual FoxPro dBase, Paradox, Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Active Directory Oracle IBM DB2, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server ,Sybase Oracle, ODBC, Files IBM DB2,Informix,Microsoft SQL Server,Oracle,Sybase Files Hyperion IBM DB2, Informix ,Microsoft SQL/Server Oracle Sybase, ODBC Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 66 Build and Manage Capabilities : Additional Extraction Data Sources Microsoft Host Integration Server provides extraction from IBM mainframe data sources. Oracle Oracle Pure Extract provides extraction from IBM mainframe data sources. Oracle Warehouse Builder Integrator for SAP provides extraction from SAP R/3. IBM DB2 Warehouse Manager provides extraction from SAP R/3, i2, and Web Server logs. Tools from IBM partners ETI and Ascential integrate within DWC to provide additional ETL capabilities. Hyperion None Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 67 Build and Manage Capabilities : ETL execution Microsoft Process-oriented execution of tasks within packages. Packaged may be versioned and/or password protected. Oracle Process-oriented and execution of ETL steps controlled by Enterprise Manager. IBM Individually executed ETL steps. Hyperion Procedural sequences of declarative rules. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 68 Build and Manage Capabilities : ETL implementation Microsoft DTS is implemented as a COM framework accessed programmatically or with packaged visual tools. Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures in Oracle9i database. IBM DB2 stored procedures and user defined functions (UDF). 150 predefined transformations. Hyperion ETL performed through rules. Rules perform field-level operations on source data. A set of predefined rules is packaged. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 69 Build and Manage Capabilities : Data cleansing Microsoft None packaged. Oracle Oracle Pure Name and Address provides name and address data cleansing. IBM IBM partners Trillium Software Systems provides name and address data cleansing. Hyperion Via user-defined rules. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 70 Outline Introduction What is Business Intelligence Selection Critieria Definition. Products Comparison. 1. BI Platform Strategies. Conclusion BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing 2. Comparing BI databases 3. Comparing OLAP 4. Comparing Data Mining 5. Comparing Interfaces 6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 71 Conclusion Microsoft provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform. Build and manage capabilities, OLAP capabilities, and application interfaces are its key strengths. Data mining is very new, although data mining integration and data mining tools are quite good. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 72 Conclusion Oracle provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform. This platform has a complete set of components, OLAP and data mining capabilities are unproven, but promising. Data mining tools are low level, and build and manage capabilities are not consistently implemented for relational and OLAP data Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 73 Conclusion IBM provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform. Relational data warehousing and data mining are key strengths. OLAP capabilities are very good The platform is not well integrated because they're OEMed from Hyperion. Build and Manage capabilities require too many toolsets and there's a disconnect between managing relational data and managing OLAP data. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 74 Conclusion Hyperion occupies a niche within business intelligence platforms its OLAP technology is a critical component of IBM's business intelligence platform. Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 75 Conclusion Price What You Get Microsoft $19,999 SQL Server Enterprise Edition OLAP / data mining / build & manage capabilities Oracle $95,000 All BI Platform IBM $138,600 Without ETL & Data cleansing Hyperion $56,000 Not A complete BI solution OLAP + Data Warehouse Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 76 Grading Data Warehouse Databases OLAP Data Mining Interfaces Build and Manage Capabilities Integration Easy To learn Support Expected Lifetime Quality/Price Total Microsoft Oracle IBM 3 3 2 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 3 4 4 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 3 3 3 39 41 34 Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 77 Q&A Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 78 References Green Hill Analysis: A Comparison of Business Intelligence Strategies and Platforms Gartner Group www.oracle.com www.microsoft.com Bouayad & Bouzoubaa 79


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Four American swimmers are the laughing stock of the games. Four guys who told the media they were robbed were telling a big FIB. The swimmers, used to peeing in pools all their lives, did so next to a Brazilian gas station. The gas station attendant took exception and the swimmers (dog paddling) tore up one of station signs. It turned out not to be an Olympic sponsor so the IOC was relieved. Speaking of being relieved, the swimmers next made their way back to the Olympic village. Give them credit. They didn't have to flush valuable water down the Rio sewer.
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The Trinity Hall
The Trinity Hall stood proud, gleaming in the sunlight that hadn't shined on Karmine for years - not since king Herod, remembered in antiquity, had unknowingly summoned Karmine's new overlord.
Herothi had reigned for seventy five years - three quarters of a century in which Karmine had been shrouded in darkness. Generations had passed without seeing the fresh, azure skies that were the land's trademark in times of old.
And then the Prophecy had been foretold, and the Trinity had found each other. Luck, chance and skill (Mexii would've liked to have thought) had taken them to the final battle at the gates of the Ligntning God's stronghold, and they had triumphed - just. In the struggle, Mune and Juliexus had lost their lives, but Mexii had used the dwindling well of Herothi's power to revive them, and in the process had been imbibed with the dregs of her old master's abilities. With these new powers, and a few expert dwarfmasons from the mountains, the Trinity had built the Trinity Hall, on the site of Mexii's father's old castle.
The Trinity had ruled Karmine for over five hundred years. And things had changed.
"I put our country's suffering on your heads!" roared a corpulent dwarf from his contingent on the right hand side of the hall. "You've ruled for half a millennium! I say you're getting a bit big for your boots!"
A frisson rippled around the gathering.
"Silence, Dagnor!" roared the dwarf chief, a wizened old Miner by the name of Grimlock. "Don't presume to blame this on one party! Making scapegoats of anyone will not help our cause!"
The hotheaded dwarf resumed his seat, grumbling and twisting his beard.
Mexii came down into the middle of the hall, down the short flight of steps that led to the massive mosaic map, sprawled on the floor.
"Peoples of Karmine," she said in a carrying voice, an impalpable air of power around her slight form; "We implore you! Do not allow discord to enter this council - this council, moreover, which has ruled our country in a Golden Age for more than five centuries! Corruption cannot be allowed to infect it, else it will cause our undoing!"
"Who else could have offended the Gods, then?" demanded the young Dagnor. "Not us dwarves! We have adhered to the Trinity's bidding for centuries!"
"My young dwarf," said Mexii quietly, "we are here to debate, not to argue."
Dagnor remained silent once again, if only because his liegelord gave him a quelling look.
"Council of the Trinity!" Mexii called, standing on the marble circle which marked the location of the Trinity Hall on the colossal map beneath her feet. "The power and cohesion of our congregation is not based on how well we rule in peacetime, but how well we rule when problems beset us. We cannot lay down our standards and strop like scolded children when events do not go our way! We will rise up and survive this time of hardship, not by accusing our neighbours but by working together, when our country needs us most!"
This rapturous speech was followed by hearty cheering from the centaurs of the Lunar Forest; and the elves, of which Mexii's long-passed friend Gray had been a part of. She smiled at their support: it meant a lot to her.
But if she was entirely honest with herself, she didn't know what was causing the harvests to fail; summoning the flash floods and devastating storms; leeching the rain from the desert and baking it in scorching droughts. The dwarves had been worst affected; great waves of snow had coated their mountain realms, blocking their mining tunnels, jamming trading routes and smothering farms and villages. They had not risen in approval at Mexii's words, but remained in their seats, many of them stony-faced. Mexii glanced nervously at them - she could see they were going to be a problem.
She and the other Trinity spent hours under that vaulted ceiling, discussing rations, trade and water shortages with her subjects. The elves, many of whom were adept magic casters, had agreed to send water from their lush homelands to the stricken settlements in the depths of the Donmar, whilst some, less grumpy dwarf chiefs consented to send some of their finest stone to help construct clean wells. A rising feeling of controlled elation rose in Mexii's breast as she saw how she was uniting her people to weather the coming hardship.
And then at last the meeting was over, the contingents retired, and Mexii met with Mune and Juliexus in their office on the west side of the hall, guarded by two liveried centaurs and a mail-clad human, who stood aside respectfully as they approached.
"Do you know more than you're letting on?" said Mune, in a slightly accusing voice.
"I know no more than you, sister," said Mexii quietly.
"This combination of events cannot be occurring for no reason," said Juliexus, with cool conviction. "You may have convinced our peoples that we can weather the storm, but I have doubts."
"Don't say it!"
"He might have returned."
"He could not have!"
"Spirits are never killed, Mexii, only banished."
"But when they have inhabited a human, they lose their immortality. I felt him die, Julie. It's impossible for him to return."
"Well, for Karmine's sakes I hope you're right," said Mune darkly. "If not ... we may find the council less prone to calm discussion."
And Mune and Juliexus left Mexii alone, deep in thought, the ruby red sun setting beyond the mountains and staining the office a final, deep crimson.