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- OLAP
- OnLine Analytical Processing Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to...
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- Enhanced Business Intelligence for Oracle OLA P Environments
- The challenge was to assess information from a growing collection of sources to support decision making, to simplify user access to Oracle OLAP data, to enable IT organization to quickly deploy new BI solutions and to provide intuitive BI tools that enhance the value of Oracle OLAP investment. SAP BusinessObjects...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., OLAP, Environment, SAP AG, Data Mining, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Business Intelligence - HP DL785 G5 server reference configurations for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- Trying to determine the correct hardware configuration to support a Business Intelligence BI workload may be challenging. Therefore, HP has made available several documents to simplify the hardware selection process by documenting various configurations to support pre-defined workloads, which access various sized databases and/or OLAP cubes. This paper provides with...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co., OLAP, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- InfoReporter 2.65 (Windows)
- InfoReporter a tool for building reports and analyzing data What you do with the Tool. You build up reports. Table reports, table & graph reports. The reports are based on local cubes, MSAS cubes or SQL relational databases or plain excel files. First of all you have to set up...
- Tags: Data Source, ODBC, Report, OLAP, Microsoft Windows, RDBMS, Business Vision, Data Mining, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-05-06
- Configuring the Default OLAP Cubes
- The default Online Analytical Processing OLAP cubes that are provided with Microsoft Dynamics AX require full license and configuration keys. If any license or configuration key is turned off, one must complete the procedures in this white paper. The procedures in this white paper will help one to configure the...
- Tags: OLAP, Microsoft Corp., Configuration Key, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-04-20
- Multinational Dealer Gains Efficient Business Intelligence Solution
- Mantrac Group, a multinational dealer that represents many leading companies including Caterpillar, deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data management software to enhance its Business Intelligence BI. With this solution, Mantrac has accelerated data extraction, the building of multidimensional Online Analytical Processing OLAP cubes, and reporting. The company is phasing in...
- Tags: OLAP, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Intelligencia Query for SQL 2005 3.0.23 (Windows)
- Intelligencia Query for BIDS and Reporting Services delivers add-in functionality for Visual Studio that transforms the task of creating OLAP reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. State-of-the-art query tools are combined with a custom data extension that understands how OLAP reporting should work. Implemented using the Microsoft Fluent user...
- Tags: Query, OLAP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, iT-Workplace, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-03-09
- Custom Calculations Are a Snap When Using MDX and OLAP
- With version 9 of SAS came with a completely new OLAP framework that would give developers the ability to customize OLAP report data in ways never before possible from within SAS. Multidimensional Expression Language MDX is the foundation of v9 SAS cubes and is responsible for the increased flexibility and...
- Tags: OLAP, Snap, SAS Institute, Zencos, Custom Calculation, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Implementing a BI Reporting Environment - Making Dashboards More OLAP Friendly
- The Credit Corp reporting environment is used on a daily basis by the management team to track performance at all levels of the business. Taking advantage of SAS Enterprise BI Server (in particular SAS BI dashboards, SAS OLAP Server, and SAS Web Report Studio), users are able to get a...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, Environment, SAS Institute, Dashboard, Pricing, Data Mining, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Using SAS OLAP Server for a ROLAP Scenario
- SAS offers a flexible Online Analytical Processing OLAP solution, not only allowing users to choose a Multidimensional OLAP MOLAP approach, but also a Relational OLAP ROLAP solution. With the latter approach, the SAS OLAP Server accesses data stored within relational database management systems directly. A ROLAP approach reduces cube build...
- Tags: OLAP, SAS Institute, Server, RDBMS, OLAP Server, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Manipulating OLAP Cubes: Advanced Techniques for SAS Programmers
- As the amount of data that is captured electronically increases exponentially, more and more organizations are turning to OLAP Cubes as a way to surface data in a meaningful way. OLAP, or Online Analytical Processing, provides a multi-dimensional view of aggregated data. It provides quick and easy access to facts,...
- Tags: Technique, OLAP, SAS Institute, Programmer, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Data Dynamics Components Help Precision. BI Create Powerful, Easy-to-Use Business Intelligence Applications for Healthcare
- Precision.BI, established in Wyomissing, PA in 2001, provides a Business Intelligence BI solution designed to do exactly that. A key problem that Precision.BI faced in developing its solution is the incredible complexity of healthcare data. Application developers for other types of businesses, such as financial or industrial companies, can readily...
- Tags: OLAP, Precision Inc., Health Care, GrapeCity, Data Mining, Vertical Industries, Pricing, Benefits, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-20
- The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
- A multidimensional analysis solution can provide organization with the insight needed to make more informed decisions and build better business relationships with partners, suppliers, and customers. By consolidating summarized corporate information from volumes of heterogeneous data and presenting this data to users in a meaningful business context, multidimensional analysis offers...
- Tags: OLAP, Analysis, IBM Corp., Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Artificial intelligence to detect heart attacks?
- Greek researchers have used online analytical processing OLAP, a technique usually associated with financial and marketing analysis, to build the foundations for a heart attack calculator. Their model integrates 'lifestyle factors including depression, education, smoking, diet, and obesity, [which all] play a part in the risk of cardiovascular disease.' The...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, OLAP, Attack, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- ContourCube .NET 4.0 (Windows)
- ContourCube is an OLAP component for interactive reporting and data analysis. It offers embeddable OLAP technology for all Windows and Web applications based on relational data. Application powered with ContourCube allows users to create numerous nice-formed screen and printable reports in a minute. User can interact with data: slice and...
- Tags: Data Source, Microsoft .NET, OLAP, Contour Components, ContourCube, Data Mining, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2008-12-12
- Clinical Decision Support Using OLAP With Data Mining
- The healthcare industry collects huge amounts of data which, unfortunately, are not turned into useful information for effective decision making. Decision support systems DSS can now use advanced technologies such as On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP and data mining to deliver advanced capabilities. This paper presents a prototype clinical decision support...
- Tags: Decision Support Inc., OLAP, Multimedia University, Healthcare Industry, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Researchers Use Commercial Database Tools to Analyze Terabytes of Data More Easily
- The Daggett Research Group within the University of Washington Department of Bioengineering is world-renowned in the study of protein stability, function, and folding. However, because the group had more than 64 terabytes of simulation data stored on more than 10 Linux-based file servers and 100 disks, mining the data was...
- Tags: Researcher, OLAP, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Data Mining, File Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition With the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 11g
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is most commonly used with the Oracle Database using SQL as the query language. Although the OLAP cube is a multidimensional data type, it is represented in the Oracle database as a collection of relational views and is easily queried by SQL. This creates the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., OLAP, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Database, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-07-01
- PivotWebTable 1 (Windows)
- PivotWebTable is an interactive and easy-to-use ASP.NET OLAP analysis control that presents the OLAP cube in popular web browsers. It has the following powerful features.PivotWebTable supports popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.PivotWebTable has its own OLAP processing engine. It doesn't rely on any third party libraries...
- Tags: OLAP, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, MicroClarity, PivotWebTable, Data Mining, Web Browsers, Microsoft Development Tools, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- OLAP + CHART ModelKit 3.8 (Windows)
- Decision support systems of any contemporary enterprise contain huge complex tables, applications and schemes. The use of advanced components allows the avoidance of such great amount of data. The OLAP + CHART ModelKit components package is intended for the creation of analytical applications for decision support systems. The pack includes...
- Tags: OLAP, Microsoft Windows, Perpetuum Software, OLAP ModelKit, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-02
- Accelerating Data Warehouses
- An option of Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, Oracle OLAP 11g is a full-featured online analytical processing engine. Because Oracle OLAP 11g is embedded in Oracle Database, it benefits from database scalability, security, and manageability features. Key new features in Oracle OLAP 11g include database-managed relational views of a cube,...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., OLAP, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
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