Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

There are some basic rules of thumb that can be applied to assist in this determination. But first it helps to look at the greater picture of OLAP compared to ROLAP. The ‘traditional’ OLAP engine ...

A multi-dimensional analytical query, or MDA query, is answered as quickly as possible by online analytical processing, or OLAP (/o*l*p/). Business intelligence also includes relational databases, ...

I have a .NET application (in C#) that does some stuff and in particular loads data into a SQL Server 2005 database (into tables).<BR><BR>I'd like to automate the building of an OLAP cube based on ...

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, ...

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 ...

Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

What good is big data if you don’t have the proper tools to make sense of it? A startup, Kyvos Insights, can transform terabytes of information stored on Hadoop clusters into easy-to-parse data cubes, ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...