Business Intelligence Semantic Model – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
After the WOW announcement at SQL PASS about PowerPivot going corporate under a new name, Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM), there were a lot of questions from the SSAS community. Your humble correspondent did his own share of nagging. For some obscure reason, this time Microsoft decided to keep MVPs and community leaders in the dark until PASS, so I was as unprepared as the rest of the community about what is to come. Prior to PASS, the SSAS team told me that corporate BI would be a major focus in Denali, which I interpreted as enhancements to UDM, only to find out that the entire buzz is about BISM…what a thunder from a clear sky. To its credit, the SSAS team was quick in its attempt to cover the collateral damage as we can see in the posts below from Amir Netz and T.K. Anand.