There is way too much to cover in the 5 minutes I have before the next session so I'll do a more in-depth article at a later date. But briefly the main item that is going to be a life saver is the "Intellicube" feature that will automatically create cubes from relational schema's - no need to define a star schema, no need to define hierarchies, no need to define measures, no need to type in proper names for things. Its all done automatically in a couple of clicks. Other things of note are: data sampling to auto discover hierarchies, non-natural hierarchies (you don't need to create a view - just drag the levels from different dimensions), multi-lingual capability baked in, perspectives to define views, debuggable MDX, KPI's, recursive calculated members. Wow! I gotta have this.