[dragansah]

Are you talking about SQL Server analytic environments like MS Business Intelligence suite? Yes that's a lot more tooling than postgres, probably 10x of times bigger than all the postgres tools out there. Most of postgres tools I've used are command line tools like pgtop or pgbadger.

[delluminatus]

Mmm, the company I met them at was using Business Objects (Clarity/Crystal, etc.) which was where the inefficiency arose. But the consultants would come in and write optimized queries against the underlying SQL database because the Business Objects reporting was so inefficient. Basically they dealt with optimizing some very long, complex queries.

And yes, I think typically orgs. today are using SQL Server or Oracle for these databases.