Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

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’ ...

Microsoft offers an array of OLAP APIs for developing top-notch dedicated OLAP applications, adding OLAP functionality to your existing apps, and more. Examine ADO MD.NET for OLAP data access, ...

Simba Technologies Inc., the industry's source for standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity solutions, announced today the immediate release of Simba XMLA Provider for Oracle ...

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 ...

You may be tired of hearing about yet another decision support technology, but Olap is one you can?t afford to ignore for long. Clive Couldwell explains why DON?T be fooled by the name. Olap, or ...

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 ...

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 ...