ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ – News), a global provider of
unified IP business communications solutions, has successfully completed
IP telephony testing for the Microsoft
Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program.

This testing ensures that Interactive Intelligence customers running the
latest release of its Customer
Interaction Center^™ (CIC), version 4.0, will receive
qualified telephony infrastructure and services when integrating with
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for optimal set-up and support.

In 1997 Interactive Intelligence launched the first Windows-based
all-in-one communications software suite. The company first certified
its relationship with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and
Lync Server 2010 in 2010. It has been a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
since 2004, and a Microsoft Independent Software Vendor since 2008.

“Since its inception, Interactive Intelligence has demonstrated its
ability to consistently meet the most stringent Microsoft product and
partnership standards,” said Kapil Sharma, principal group program
manager, Lync Partner Engineering Team at Microsoft Corp.

“We have a large number of customers running previous versions of our
software integrated with Lync Server 2010, and now with this latest
testing completed, our customers are once again assured that they’re
receiving a high-quality solution with direct access to joint support,”
said Interactive Intelligence chief marketing officer, Joe Staples.

CIC 4.0 has been qualified by Microsoft to work with Lync Server 2010.
This qualification
gives joint customers the following:

• Installation, set-up and configuration requirements via a Quick Start
  Guide.
• Enterprise-class standards for audio quality, reliability and
  scalability.
• Documented support process between Microsoft and Interactive
  Intelligence.
• Release notes with any known issues.
  

CIC
offers mid-size to large enterprises and contact centers features for
multichannel routing, interactive voice response, call and screen
recording, reporting, outbound dialing, workforce management, Web
self-service, knowledge and email auto response management, and
automated customer feedback surveys.

The combined solution enables CIC users and Lync Server 2010 users to
communicate by phone, by Lync instant message, or by video call from
within a single interface. In addition, both sets of users receive
synchronized presence information, along with a common company-wide
directory that can be viewed from within the CIC desktop client.

For more information about the CIC and Microsoft solutions, visit http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/MS-Integrations.aspx.

For more information about the Microsoft Unified Communications Open
Interoperability Program, visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx#tab=1.

About Interactive Intelligence

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ – News) is a global provider
of contact center automation, unified communications, and business
process automation software and services. The company’s unified IP
business communications solutions, which can be deployed on-premise or
via the cloud, are ideal for industries such as financial services,
insurance, outsourcers, collections, and utilities. Interactive
Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 4,500 customers
worldwide. The company is among Forbes Magazine’s 2011 Best Small
Companies in America and Software Magazine’s 2011 Top 500 Global
Software and Service Providers. It employs more than 1,000 people and is
headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company has offices
throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000
or info@inin.com; on the Net: www.inin.com.

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve
a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially are described in the company’s SEC filings.

Interactive Intelligence is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE
INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their
respective owners.

ININ-G

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/interactive-intelligence-completes-testing-microsoft-130000576.html

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT – News), “The people behind BIRT”^®
and the leading open source Business
Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced a strategic alliance with
Megazone, a leading provider of IT and business transformation services.
Under the alliance, Megazone will promote the use of Actuate’s
value-added products for BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools),
including ActuateOne^®, among organizations in Korea.

The alliance will allow Actuate to leverage Megazone’s market presence
to support the growing number of ActuateOne deployments and BIRT
developers in Korea. The relationship will also address selling
opportunities and increase overall awareness of Actuate in the Korean
market. Megazone has embraced Actuate and BIRT into its Business
Intelligence practice to deliver a larger breadth of offerings to its
customer base.

“The alliance between Megazone and Actuate demonstrates our commitment
to provide businesses with easy access to complex data sets through rich
data visualizations. This strategic alignment will tightly integrate a
wide range of customer Business Intelligence environments to ensure
improved customer satisfaction. We believe that the strength of
Actuate’s offerings for BIRT, as well as the company’s rich expertise
and proven leadership in the Business Intelligence market are a great
value add to our customer base,” said Lee Joo Wan, CEO, Megazone.

The Actuate and Megazone alliance offers Megazone customers a wide range
of Business Intelligence and information applications based on Actuate
and BIRT. Additionally, these customers will be able to gain an
information delivery advantage by harnessing unstructured data, such as
print stream data, and turning it into visually rich applications,
complete with interactivity and in-memory analytics for use both inside
and outside the firewall.

“As we cater to the growing demand for Actuate products and services in
Korea, we are pleased to work with Megazone,” said James Conway,
Regional Director for Asia Pacific at Actuate. “We believe that
Megazone’s experience and relationships combined with Actuate’s open,
flexible approach to building custom BI and information applications,
will enable more end users to take advantage of intuitive, full featured
Business Intelligence capabilities. Megazone and Actuate will be able to
more quickly deliver BI functionality – either as a standalone
application or tightly embedded into dashboards, portals and other
mission critical applications.”

Megazone Corporation

Megazone Corporation is a leader in the creative digital experience
space, specialising in the provision and management
of creative IT services and solutions. Prided on being a full-service,
one stop IT solution provider, Megazone focuses on delivering meaningful
business results to customers by applying its expertise in the area of
Digital Online Promotion, e-Commerce, Device GUI development, Web and
Domain hosting, 3D Motion content, eLearning and Cross Media content
development. Appointed as the best partner company by Microsoft Korea in
2010, as well as being a trusted partner and authorized reseller of
Google Apps and a Google Enterprise Service, Megazone is expanding its
market by working with strong global partners such as Limelight Networks
and WatchGuard Technologies Inc.

Founded in 1998, Megazone has developed hundreds of sites, countless
rich media ads and applications across various digital platforms for
over 300 clients in Korea and globally, including Samsung Electronics,
LG Electronics, LG Group, SK Telecom, Lotte Group, Asiana Airline, Gala
Europe, Gala Japan, Japan Airlines (JAL), KLM-Air France and Domino’s
Pizza.

For more information, please contact the Sales Marketing Manager at msj@mz.co.kr.

Actuate – The people behind BIRT

Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project.
ActuateOne^® is a unified suite of products for rapidly
developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business
Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications
built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or
skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including
cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate
any data source – including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds
rich data
visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards,
analytics,
and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping
organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and
improved operational performance.

Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business
areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in
1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices
worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more
information, visit the company’s web site at www.actuate.com
or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

Copyright © 2012 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate,
ActuateOne, and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate
Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other
countries. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be
trademarks of their respective owners.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/actuate-inks-strategic-alliance-megazone-110000904.html

TYSONS CORNER, Va., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR – News), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation’s largest payments processors, has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise BI standard, replacing its SAP BusinessObjects installation.

Heartland Payment Systems will expand its use of MicroStrategy to enhance the reporting and analytics it provides to its merchants, giving them greater insights into their businesses.  Heartland’s customers in the Petroleum and Convenience Store industry, as well as internal customers across the Heartland organization, will be new users of the BI platform. With MicroStrategy, Heartland’s customers will have better access to data, helping them to spot trends and anticipate changes in their business.

“Heartland has made a strategic decision to expand its relationship with MicroStrategy,” said Kent Raymer, Director of Business Intelligence at Heartland Payment Systems. “As a result of the new agreement, our customers will have a single reporting platform with more features and functionality, allowing them to better manage their businesses.  We’re now positioned to be even more competitive in the marketplace with what we believe is a superior BI solution.”

“We are pleased that Heartland Payment Systems has selected MicroStrategy to support their expanding BI requirements,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer.  ”MicroStrategy is proud to provide leading companies with user-friendly dashboards, powerful analytics, and innovative mobile apps that empower business users to interact with data in compelling ways.”

About Heartland Payment Systems

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. (NYSE: HPY – News), the fifth largest payments processor in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, gift marketing and loyalty programs, payroll, check management and related business solutions to more than 250,000 business locations nationwide. A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of The Merchant Bill of Rights, a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. The company is also a leader in the development of end-to-end encryption technology designed to protect cardholder data, rendering it useless to cybercriminals. For more detailed information, visit HeartlandPaymentSystems.com or follow the company on Twitter @HeartlandHPY and Facebook at facebook.com/HeartlandHPY.

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications.  MicroStrategy’s BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions.  Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability.  MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps.  MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies.  The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications.  To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR – News), visit www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy).

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Cloud, MicroStrategy Mobile, Cloud Personal, MicroStrategy Transaction Services, Wisdom, MicroStrategy Wisdom and Emma are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

MSTR-G

Contact:
Warren Getler
MicroStrategy Incorporated
703-744-6258
wgetler@microstrategy.com

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microstrategy-selected-heartland-payment-systems-120000714.html

SINGAPORE, Mar 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Actuate Corporation


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, “The people behind BIRT”®
and the leading open source Business
Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced a strategic alliance with
Megazone, a leading provider of IT and business transformation services.
Under the alliance, Megazone will promote the use of Actuate’s
value-added products for BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools),
including ActuateOne®, among organizations in Korea.

The alliance will allow Actuate to leverage Megazone’s market presence
to support the growing number of ActuateOne deployments and BIRT
developers in Korea. The relationship will also address selling
opportunities and increase overall awareness of Actuate in the Korean
market. Megazone has embraced Actuate and BIRT into its Business
Intelligence practice to deliver a larger breadth of offerings to its
customer base.

“The alliance between Megazone and Actuate demonstrates our commitment
to provide businesses with easy access to complex data sets through rich
data visualizations. This strategic alignment will tightly integrate a
wide range of customer Business Intelligence environments to ensure
improved customer satisfaction. We believe that the strength of
Actuate’s offerings for BIRT, as well as the company’s rich expertise
and proven leadership in the Business Intelligence market are a great
value add to our customer base,” said Lee Joo Wan, CEO, Megazone.

The Actuate and Megazone alliance offers Megazone customers a wide range
of Business Intelligence and information applications based on Actuate
and BIRT. Additionally, these customers will be able to gain an
information delivery advantage by harnessing unstructured data, such as
print stream data, and turning it into visually rich applications,
complete with interactivity and in-memory analytics for use both inside
and outside the firewall.

“As we cater to the growing demand for Actuate products and services in
Korea, we are pleased to work with Megazone,” said James Conway,
Regional Director for Asia Pacific at Actuate. “We believe that
Megazone’s experience and relationships combined with Actuate’s open,
flexible approach to building custom BI and information applications,
will enable more end users to take advantage of intuitive, full featured
Business Intelligence capabilities. Megazone and Actuate will be able to
more quickly deliver BI functionality — either as a standalone
application or tightly embedded into dashboards, portals and other
mission critical applications.”

Megazone Corporation

Megazone Corporation is a leader in the creative digital experience
space, specialising in the provision and management
of creative IT services and solutions. Prided on being a full-service,
one stop IT solution provider, Megazone focuses on delivering meaningful
business results to customers by applying its expertise in the area of
Digital Online Promotion, e-Commerce, Device GUI development, Web and
Domain hosting, 3D Motion content, eLearning and Cross Media content
development. Appointed as the best partner company by Microsoft Korea in
2010, as well as being a trusted partner and authorized reseller of
Google Apps and a Google Enterprise Service, Megazone is expanding its
market by working with strong global partners such as Limelight Networks
and WatchGuard Technologies Inc.

Founded in 1998, Megazone has developed hundreds of sites, countless
rich media ads and applications across various digital platforms for
over 300 clients in Korea and globally, including Samsung Electronics,
LG Electronics, LG Group, SK Telecom, Lotte Group, Asiana Airline, Gala
Europe, Gala Japan, Japan Airlines (JAL), KLM-Air France and Domino’s
Pizza.

For more information, please contact the Sales Marketing Manager at msj@mz.co.kr.

Actuate — The people behind BIRT

Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project.
ActuateOne® is a unified suite of products for rapidly
developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business
Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications
built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or
skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including
cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate
any data source – including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds
rich data
visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards,
analytics,
and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping
organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and
improved operational performance.

Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business
areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in
1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices
worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more
information, visit the company’s web site at
www.actuate.com
or visit the BIRT community at
www.birt-exchange.com .

Copyright © 2012 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate,
ActuateOne, and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate
Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other
countries. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be
trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Actuate Corporation

        Actuate Corporation
        Leena Bengani, 650-645-3837
        lbengani@actuate.com
        Twitter: @Actuate

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SOMERVILLE, MA, Mar 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
TIBCO Software Inc.


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today announced that it will be
demonstrating the latest version of its analytics platform, TIBCO
Spotfire(R) 4.0, as a premier level sponsor at the Gartner Business
Intelligence Summit to be held at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A.
LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. on April 2-4, 2012. Spotfire(R) 4.0,
which enables “dimension free” data discovery at every level of an
organization, expands the traditional boundaries of analytics by
delivering contextual and social collaboration capabilities that put
data insights and findings within relevant business context.

Attendees are invited to visit TIBCO Spotfire at booth number 11 to
learn how Spotfire 4.0, which features integration with Microsoft(R)
SharePoint(R) and tibbr(R), brings together interactive dashboards,
in-context analysis, and rich “social discovery” features to deliver
powerful new levels of individual and collective data discovery and
analysis. The company will also demonstrate its TIBCO Spotfire(R) for
iPad application, available in Apple’s App Store, which makes it easy
for anyone, anywhere, using an iPad tablet to interact with analytic
applications and dashboards to make critical business decisions
faster.

In addition, TIBCO Spotfire customer Cisco will discuss its use of
the TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform in the following session:

Company/Speaker: Cisco, Justin Welsh, senior marketing manager

Track/Session: Solution Provider Case Studies, “Data Discovery and
Visualization for Sales Marketing”
When: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
from 3-4 p.m. PDT
Session details: In this session, attendees will
learn why one of the world’s leading companies — Cisco Systems –
relies on data discovery and analytics to increase brand awareness,
increase their marketing efficiency and drive more sales leads — all
while reducing costs. Attendees will also hear first-hand how Cisco’s
use of the TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform powers their sales and
marketing practices.

To arrange to speak with a TIBCO Spotfire executive at the summit, or
for more information, please contact Meghan Locke at
mlocke@daviesmurphy.com or 781-418-2434.

About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc.


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is a provider of
infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of
cloud computing environments. Whether it’s efficient claims or trade
processing, cross-selling products based on real-time customer
behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides
companies the two-second advantage(TM) — the ability to capture the
right information, at the right time and act on it preemptively for a
competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on
TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes, and applications
in real-time. TIBCO Spotfire(R) is the company’s in-memory analytics
software for next generation business intelligence. By offering a
visual, interactive experience, Spotfire(R) helps professionals
quickly discover new and actionable insights in information. Learn
more at
http://spotfire.tibco.com .

TIBCO, TIBCO Software, TIBCO Spotfire, Spotfire, and two-second
advantage are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software
Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.
All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this
document are the property of their respective owners and are
mentioned for identification purposes only.

        Media Inquiries
        Amy Groden-Morrison
        TIBCO Software Inc.
        617-702-1710
        amorriso@tibco.com

http://spotfire.tibco.com

        Meghan Locke
        Davies Murphy Group
        781-418-2434
        mlocke@daviesmurphy.com

http://daviesmurphy.com

SOURCE: TIBCO Software Inc.

        mailto:amorriso@tibco.com

http://spotfire.tibco.com/            mailto:mlocke@daviesmurphy.com

http://daviesmurphy.com/

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TYSONS CORNER, Va., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated


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, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation’s largest payments processors, has chosen MicroStrategy as its enterprise BI standard, replacing its SAP BusinessObjects installation.

Heartland Payment Systems will expand its use of MicroStrategy to enhance the reporting and analytics it provides to its merchants, giving them greater insights into their businesses. Heartland’s customers in the Petroleum and Convenience Store industry, as well as internal customers across the Heartland organization, will be new users of the BI platform. With MicroStrategy, Heartland’s customers will have better access to data, helping them to spot trends and anticipate changes in their business.

“Heartland has made a strategic decision to expand its relationship with MicroStrategy,” said Kent Raymer, Director of Business Intelligence at Heartland Payment Systems. “As a result of the new agreement, our customers will have a single reporting platform with more features and functionality, allowing them to better manage their businesses. We’re now positioned to be even more competitive in the marketplace with what we believe is a superior BI solution.”

“We are pleased that Heartland Payment Systems has selected MicroStrategy to support their expanding BI requirements,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer. “MicroStrategy is proud to provide leading companies with user-friendly dashboards, powerful analytics, and innovative mobile apps that empower business users to interact with data in compelling ways.”

About Heartland Payment Systems

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.


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, the fifth largest payments processor in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, gift marketing and loyalty programs, payroll, check management and related business solutions to more than 250,000 business locations nationwide. A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of The Merchant Bill of Rights, a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. The company is also a leader in the development of end-to-end encryption technology designed to protect cardholder data, rendering it useless to cybercriminals. For more detailed information, visit HeartlandPaymentSystems.com or follow the company on Twitter @HeartlandHPY and Facebook at facebook.com/HeartlandHPY.

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy’s BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy’s mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy’s social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy’s enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy


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, visit
www.microstrategy.com and follow us on Facebook (
http://www.facebook.com/microstrategy ) and Twitter (
http://www.twitter.com/microstrategy ).

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Cloud, MicroStrategy Mobile, Cloud Personal, MicroStrategy Transaction Services, Wisdom, MicroStrategy Wisdom and Emma are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

MSTR-G

Contact:Warren GetlerMicroStrategy Incorporated703-744-6258wgetler@microstrategy.com

SOURCE MicroStrategy Incorporated

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Now that SQL Server 2012 has been released, I’ve just realised I’ve not seen a definitive list of what’s new in SSAS 2012 Multidimensional. In fact I’m surprised I haven’t got round to writing a blog post about this… after all, despite the fuss over Tabular, Power View and all the other cool new stuff I guess most existing SSAS users are going to be more interested in staying with the Multidimensional model when they upgrade.

So what is new? Here’s a list of everything I know about plus some relevant links:

• The infamous 4GB limit on string stores in dimensions has now been fixed. See:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg471589(v=sql.110).aspx
  http://raphaelmsbithoughts.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/denali-ctp3-analysis-services-new-feature-scalable-string-storage/
• Distinct count performance in ROLAP mode has been improved:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.110).aspx#bkmk_distinctCount
• SSAS now supports NUMA and more than 64 processors:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh548655(SQL.110).aspx
  This is a very detailed, must-read blog post on the subject:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2012/01/31/analysis-services-thread-pool-changes-in-sql-server-2012.aspx
  All this may be why processing is much faster in some cases, as Bob Duffy notes here:
  http://blogs.prodata.ie/post/Analysis-Services-2012-Faster-Processing.aspx
• I’ve seen it mentioned in several other places that there have been 300 other improvements for performance, scalability and reliability in the SSAS engine. I’ve not seen them documented anywhere (maybe they are in a KB article) but they’re likely to be minor tweaks/bug fixes similar to what you’d get in any SP. Nevertheless if you run into the specific scenarios they address then they could be very significant.
• SSAS now supports XEvents for monitoring:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492139(v=sql.110).aspx
• There are some new Profiler events. BOL notes the Resource Usage and lock-related events, but the former (and I’m pretty sure the latter) were also made available to 2008 R2 users with the last SP:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.110).aspx#bkmk_traceResource
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.110).aspx#bkmk_traceLocks
  However the really interesting new events are “Calculation Evaluation” and “Calculation Evaluation Detailed Information” which give an insight into what’s going on in the Formula Engine. I hope we get some information on how to interpret the contents of these events.
• There’s a new Analysis Services PowerShell provider and cmdlets:
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213141(v=sql.110).aspx
  http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/analysis-services-powershell-provider-sqlas-in-sql-server-2012.html
• All development work is now done in Visual Studio 2012, and BIDS is now called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
• The cube browser has now disappeared from SSDT, and is replaced by the control used by the SSRS query generator. This is because the old browser used the OWC control which was deprecated years ago and finally had to be replaced; it’s a massive step backwards because this control is truly awful: for example you can no longer put anything other than Measures on columns in your query. Arrggghhh! I’ve started using Excel instead, but Excel won’t always be available on some sites and it’s a hassle to move to a different app to check your figures.

Have I forgotten anything? Have you found anything changed that isn’t documented? If so, please leave a comment. I’ll update this post as and when I find/remember new stuff.

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