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 ...

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’ ...

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.

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 ...

Interactive Edge LLC, a provider of data analysis and visualization solutions, has announced the debut of XP3 BI Presenter, a Microsoft Office add-in which brings data directly into Microsoft ...

Business intelligence software has been around for years. Many big-data analytics tools have the goal of providing actionable business insight. But data silos, vast data lakes, and the tricky ...

Oracle OLAP is an analytic engine embedded in the Oracle database. It delivers fast answers to complex analytic queries to any SQL-based application. In this Webcast, you will learn how Oracle BI EE ...

The next version of SQL Server Analysis Services introduces the BI Semantic Model, a single model for Business Intelligence applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards, ...

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 ...