{"id":11894,"date":"2007-09-05T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2007-09-05T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T13:24:11","slug":"cognos_buys_applix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/cognos_buys_applix.html","title":{"rendered":"Cognos Buys Applix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only minutes after I post an entry on the acceleration of consolidation in the BI market, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=6114\">Cognos has purchased Applix<\/a>. The interesting part is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applix.com\/product\/performancemanagement.asp\">TM1<\/a>, which uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monash.com\/MCDM.pdf\">memory-centric BI technology<\/a> that has been around for as long as I can remember, but which didn&#8217;t really come into its own until 64-bit platforms became available. The other vendor closely associated with the technology is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qliktech.com\/FormPage.aspx?id=2336\">Qliktech<\/a>, but both&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/platform\/netweaver\/pdf\/BWP_AR_IDC_BI_Accelerator.pdf\">SAP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastsearch.com\/\">FAST<\/a> claim to have a&nbsp;memory-centric angle. <\/p>\n<p>Cognos has been <a href=\"http:\/\/andyonenterprisesoftware.com\/2007\/06\/has-the-fizz-gone-out-of-cognos\/\">struggling<\/a> a little recently, and this will give them a new angle, although apart from TM1 there&#8217;s clearly going to be a lot of overlap with their existing products. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only minutes after I post an entry on the acceleration of consolidation in the BI market, I see that Cognos has purchased Applix. The interesting part is TM1, which uses memory-centric BI technology that has been around for as long as I can remember, but which didn&#8217;t really come into its own until 64-bit platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,160,204,263,485,857,1073],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisition","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-cognos","tag-fast","tag-qliktech","tag-tm1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-35Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}