Business users can view centralized data and perform related calculations for analysis and reporting with ease. IT can take advantage of OLAP solutions so that data warehouses and other relational ...

Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence Excerpt from ...

In order to fully understand the benefits of OLAP and the details of its effective implementation, it helps to examine the technology from two perspectives: (1) from that of the users and (2) from ...

The popularity of Microsoft Excel has never waned. Today, a whopping 1.1 billion users globally rely on it for multidimensional analysis in areas such as "scenario planning, supply chain optimization, ...

IBM is rolling out a tool that it said combines online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining capabilities in one application, giving users the ability to do in-depth analyses not before ...

The OLAP market share numbers for 2000 are in and -- not surprisingly -- more than a few feathers have been ruffled. After another year of steady growth in the OLAP space, Hyperion Solutions still ...

QlikTech's QlikView, which represents the next generation of business intelligence and OLAP architecture, can construct data structures on the fly in nonrelational associative databases. On the ...

Pentaho is releasing on Tuesday olap4j 1.0, which provides an open source API for Java developers to access multiple OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) servers in business intelligence applications.

The new distributed graph architecture promises unified transactional and analytical processing, enabling enterprises to scale real-time decision-making for autonomous workflows. Graph database ...