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OLAP Server and Relational OLAP
Overview
OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) tools are often evaluated, quite superficially, based on their presentation layer, with little regard to how data is acquired, staged, and made available for analysis. The increasing popularity of data warehousing-applying standard relational database technologies to
decision support applications-has spawned a new breed of OLAP tools which surpass previous constraints in scalability and performance, and demand a closer look. As end user requirements relate less and less, ironically, to what end users see on their computers, it becomes increasingly important to understand what's going on inside an OLAP software application.
This paper explores how end user requirements relate to the OLAP software architecture that delivers
the information. It also shows how one product, CA's DecisionBase OLAP Server, represents a rule change: the capabilities of the "classical" multidimensional OLAP tools, plus the scalability, ease of maintenance, and performance of an open systems tool.
| Publisher | CA (Computer Associates) | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2007 | Downloads | 1 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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