Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

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, ...

In the fog of the Big Data era, OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) gets little mention from the press or the industry analysts. The reality is, OLAP is quite vital today for a simple reason: most ...

How Are Oltp And Olap Used As Methodologies In The Process Of Gathering Business Intelligence? In contrast to OLTP databases, OLAP databases are intended to support analytical processing of data ...

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 ...

Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho Corporation today released version 1.0 of olap4j, an open Java API for building OLAP applications. According to the originator of olap4j, Julian ...

Silicon Valley startup Kyvos Insights today emerged from stealth mode, trumpeting a new way for ordinary business users to conduct Big Data analytics. Adding a slight twist to the dozens of similar ...

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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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 ...