Why Do We Need Olap Cube? For OLAP cubes to be truly effective, they must be able to deal with millions of records at the same time. OLAP cube queries can be done with plain English, in fact. 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...