With today's increase in data volumes it is becoming more important to handle the high demand (either loading or accessing) of data conccurrently or in parallel. This blog will assist you by noting the benefits, enabling the functionality, as well as giving you an example. Let's start with the what parallel interaction / concurrency is and it benefits: It's a IBM server feature allowing concurrent operations (read/write). The concurrency operations can be performed on the same cube object. Writing to a cube will not lock it. This means that it will not wait for readers using the same cube to ...

I have been closely following and writing about trends in the business intelligence market over the past three years. During this time, I can’t say that we’ve seen any “radically new” trends, and I don’t expect any to emerge in the second half of 2017. What I have seen, so far in 2017, is the “evolution” of the dominant trends driving a dynamic BI market. The global business intelligence market is expected to reach USD 26.50 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of around 8.4% between 2016 and 2021 (Zion Market Research). Here are the 5 BI trends predicted to most influence the BI market in 2017 ...