Microsoft updates its BI Roadmap - #ssas #bism #teched #powerpivot

During TechEd 2011, Microsoft announced an important update to its BI roadmap. The reason why this is important is related to the previous announcement, which I discussed in November 2010 by including links to several sources and comments. At PASS Summit 2010 the announcement regarding the next version of SQL Server, codenamed "Denali", caused a lot of discussions because it seemed that there would have been a "competitive" version of Analysis Services that would have been required existing projects made in UDM to be not upgradable to the "new model". And someone wondered if the lifecycle of UDM (Unified Dimensional Model, which is run by the MOLAP engine) started a descending curve.