intelligence tools founded 2008 founder scott currie 1 headquarters greenville south carolina area served global products biml mist vivid website http varigence.com varigence is a software firm headquartered in greenville sc that specializes in the development of business intelligence tools . varigence is the creator of business intelligence markup language biml . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 biml 2.2 mist 2.3 vivid 3 references 4 external links history edit varigence was founded in 2008 by former microsoft employee scott currie . 1 varigence is headquartered in greenville sc and has offices in seattle wa . in 2009 varigence released business intelligence markup language biml . in october 2011 varigence held the 10 000 biml challenge at the annual pass summit in seattle washington . a 10 000 grand prize was given to the person who could complete a business intelligence task the fastest using biml 2 products edit varigence products work primarily on top of the microsoft business intelligence stack . biml edit business intelligence markup language biml is an xml based language that allows you to describe your bi solution in a declarative fashion similarly to using html to describe how a web page should appear . in addition you can embed bimlscript c or vb.net code into biml in the same way that asp.net works with html . this allows for large numbers of packages to be created with a minimal amount of code . 3 in june 2011 key portions of the biml engine including dynamic package generation were contributed to the bids helper open source project hosted on codeplex . 3 4 in september 2012 bimlscript.com a community website for developing and sharing biml solutions to bi problems and contributing biml content to share with others was launched . along with tutorials walkthroughs and videos the site provides an online biml editor . 5 mist edit mist is an ide for authoring biml code and building bi assets . mist leverages visual design capabilities and debugging features to simultaneously edit entire business intelligence models including relational tables ssis packages and cubes . 1 mist also incorporates modern programming ide features including text editors with syntax highlighting intelliprompt and quick info displays source control integration and multi monitor support . vivid edit vivid is an add in for excelolap pivot tables collaboration and rich commentary that improves the way users interact with excel . 6 vivid provides more than 100 features that enable users to work more efficiently and effectively with ssas olap pivot tables inside microsoft excel . references edit a b c leonard andy ; masson matt ; mitchell tim ; moss jessica ; ufford michelle 2012 . chapter 17 business intelligence markup language . sql server 2012 integration services design patterns . apress . p. 456 . isbn 978 143023771 6 . varigence sponsors the 10 000 biml challenge at pass summit 2011 . seattle wa . october 11 2011 . retrieved november 2 2012 . a b welch john june 7 2011 . biml package generator . bids helper . retrieved september 30 2011 . tok wee hyong ; parida rakesh ; masson matt ; ding xiaoning ; sivashanmugam kaarthik 2012 . microsoft sql server 2012 integration services . o reilly media inc. p. 511 . isbn 978 073566585 9 . welcome to bimlscript.com . bimlscript.com . retrieved october 4 2012 . webb chris november 23 2010 . two client tools bonavista dimensions and varigence vivid and yet more idle speculation . retrieved november 21 2012 . external links edit varigence.com varigence website bimlscript.com biml online community bids helper microsoft sql server extension with biml capabilities biml language reference by the varigence corporation microsoft sql server further information on the microsoft sql server platform . mist walkthrough biml examples using the mist ide retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title varigence & oldid 742410599 categories business intelligence companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 14 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view