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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Microsoft Corp. and data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. yesterday announced plans for a joint XML-based technical specification aimed at providing a common way for users to connect ...

A database used for analytical processing in contrast to daily transaction processing. Rather than the row and column 2D format used by relational databases, OLAP databases store data in a 3D format, ...

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.

Startup Kyvos Insights emerged from stealth mode Tuesday, debuting its big data analytics software designed to glean insights from huge volumes of corporate data. Kyvos Insights, based in Los Gatos, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied OLAP, Inc. has announced release of its Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System software 8.0 with EssJet technology and many new cutting edge features. EssJet ...

Crystal Decisions Inc.s Crystal Enterprise 8 Professional Edition data report server provides a fast, highly programmable tool for creating and distributing reports to users. However, this ...