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Danish Business Intelligence: Omikron and timeXtender

Denmark is actually becoming an interesting area for business intelligence development, led by the consulting firm Platon. I just wanted to give some visibility to a couple of vendor products I encountered while there last week at the Information Management Conference 2007 in Copenhagen.

Omikron is a Data Quality vendor, providing functionality not unlike a Trillium or FirstLogic (Business Objects) in the states – data enrichment, postal address correction, duplicate checking, sanction listing and so forth. However, implementing many of these functions with US-based tools has limitations for European data since address structure is quite unique to the address country. Omikron, based in Germany, specializes in European data quality.

I found timeXtender interesting also. It’s a framework for fast development of a SQL Server 2005 data warehouse environment. timeXtender makes the process of defining sources to SQL Server, bringing the data into a dimensional model and building basic cubes easier than native SQL Server 2005. I saw this environment built before my eyes. Their motto is “From source to cube – in no time.”

Technorati tags: Microsoft, SQL Server, Omikron, timextender, Data Quality

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