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unusual facts about Microsoft Analysis Services



Business Intelligence Markup Language

Biml authored BI assets can currently be used by the BIDS Helper add-on for Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and the Varigence Mist integrated development environment; both tools translate Biml metadata into SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) assets for the Microsoft SQL Server platform.

Crystal Analysis

The initial rewrite only supported Microsoft Analysis Services, but support for other vendors soon followed, with Holos cubes in version 8.5, Essbase, IBM DB2 and SAP BW following in later releases.

Team Foundation Server

In this configuration TFS can be distributed across multiple servers for redundancy, plugged into Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or 2013, SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services.


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