Acknowledgments
First of all, without Manny Perez’s vision and ability to implement this unique solution, we could not have written this book. Thanks to Manny for his continuous ambition to improve multidimensional modeling.
We would like to thank our IBM Business Analytics colleagues in Germany and the United States. The business concepts described in the third part of the book in particular are the results of discussions with customers, partners, and colleagues. For these intensive discussions, we want to thank specifically Sonja Pressel and Michael Kurc from the IBM German sales organization (group performance management), Christoph Papenfuss ...