Varigence is a

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firm headquartered in

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, that specializes in the development of

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. Varigence is the creator of

Business Intelligence Markup Language Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) is a domain-specific XML dialect for defining business intelligence (BI) assets. Biml-authored BI assets can currently be used by the BIDS Helper add-on for Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence ...

(Biml).

History

Varigence was founded in 2008 by former Microsoft employee Scott Currie. In 2009, Varigence released Biml. In October 2011, Varigence held the $10,000 Biml Challenge at the annual PASS Summit in

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. A $10,000 grand prize was given to the person who could complete a business intelligence task the fastest using Biml

References

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