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’ ...

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.

Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them with a cube through which they can explore data.

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 ...

Octopai, a provider of metadata management automation for BI and analytics, is expanding support of OLAP cubes to enable organizations to understand their complete data flow. This move enriches and ...

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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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 ...

When we try to extract information from a stack of data, we need tools to help us find what’s relevant and what’s important and to explore different scenarios. A report, whether printed on paper or ...