http://www.vectorspace.com Analytics consultants: Information on OLAP, Applix TM1, PALO, DSS, enterprise software, ETL; trends in FLOSS and proprietary software from this NYC consulting company. Corporate info and blog Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:07:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vector Space Inc. has been acquired by Application Consulting Group Inc, a New Jersey-based Business Inteligence consulting company. This acquisition will bring substantial new resources to Vector Space's activities, enhancing its ability to deliver outstanding Applix TM1(TM) solutions to its customers. The press release is attached http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/12/20/vector-space-joins-acg-to-promote-tm1-practice Writing about the origins of TM1, I realized that I knew very little about the developments that led up to the invention and introduction of this seminal tool. So I decided to take a detour in this account of the origins of spreadsheet OLAP. I called Manny Perez, ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/19/tm1-origins-the-prequel I wish I had a penny for every person who has asked me what Applix TM1 is and why we like it so much. Even enthusiastic users often know little of its origins. I thought readers of this website might want to know a little more --. I ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/08/tm1-origins-i Following our [post](http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/07/25/palo-olap-review) on the new PALO open source package, Jedox president Kristian Raue agreed to answer a few questions about the company's plans for the product. ### How is PALO planning to relate to the broader world of spreadsheet OLAP? By July 2006 more than 10,000 people had downloaded Palo and ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/03/raue_interview Every now and then we see a request for the OLAP Council benchmark, last updated in 1998; since nobody else seems to have all the materials in one place, we have decided to put them here as a service. The specification can be downloaded here. The data generation program is here. While it ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/01/apb-ii_files This article says that almost nobody reads an Internet news post more than 36 hours old.Well, that article is almost a month old, but it's still very timely. This by way of saying that now that this site has begun to take on a life, it seems that we'reproducing new ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/01/old-news-new-news I mentioned the new open source OLAP server PALO (OLAP backwards) in an earlier post. This TM1 workalike is still at an early stage, but any new offering in this area - especially if it is free - is of great interest to spreadsheet OLAP users. In this post; I will ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/07/25/palo-olap-review Let me start this post by saying that Vector Space has no involvement or business interest in DQS, a startup with a product in beta. But when we heard about it from a former colleague, we thought it was worth a deeper look. Perhaps you'll find it interesting too. DQS proposes ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/06/27/dqs We're always looking for software that can help solve problems. Think about it. No problem, no special solution. No special solution, no consultant to implement it. So consultants are always looking for problems, and then figuring out how to solve them. It may not always be the easiest way to pay the ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/06/19/looking-ahead-software-that-interests-us-maybe-you-too-2 Since I had more questions than answers about Temtec and Applix (see my last post below), I decided to take the bull by the horns and call Dave Menninger, Applix's Vice President for Marketing to get a little perspective on what Applix is thinking. Here's what he told me: > While ... http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/06/16/more-on-applix-temtec