MPP, IMDB and Moore’s Law | Database Fog Blog →

​The most convincing argument I've seen so far for why RAM-focused databases are the future. Summary: Disk I/O can't keep up with CPU architectures based on exploding numbers of cores.

A Comparison of BICS and OLAP BAPI for BI | SCN →

This is an important document to reference for anyone converting between different BI reporting tools in the SAP ecosystem. It's also quite an interesting enumeration of the functionality you might expect to see in an OLAP interface.​

The OLAP Compiler in BW-on-HANA →

An overview of how one of the more interesting ​pieces of SAP BW functionality, the "OLAP engine", handles queries. From Thomas Zurek.

Semantically Speaking | EV Technologies, Inc. →

More from Eric Vallo on semantic layers.

Big Business Intelligence: The Semantic Argument →

Post by Jamie Oswald discussing the multiple semantic layers SAP is currently supporting.