An Olap environment has three fundamental components: an Olap storage engine, a method of data access (often an API), and an analytic application that uses data queried from the Olap engine. While ...

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 ...

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, ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a component of BI (business intelligence) say Michael Schrader et al. in ‘Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP’ (www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “BI means different things to ...

Nearly a year after Sept. 11 and the ensuing plunge in airline revenues, Southwest Airlines Co. is so pleased with the performance of its business intelligence applications for financial management ...