What is OLAP?

This book offers context for newbies to OLAP technology. Learn where OLAP came from and how it developed into the Business Intelligence technology we know today.

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Business Intelligence Evolves to Serve Users

Business data and BI software are currently beginning a new phase of evolution. In this new phase, users of business data

Business Intelligence verses Predictive Analytics

Business Intelligence Versus Predictive Analytics

“No matter what, you still need business intelligence to know what really happened in the past, but you also need

How to Set Up a Pivot Table as a Spreadsheet Database

Pivot Tables aren’t merely a way to interact with your data. You also can use them as a rich source

Fast Data: How to Gain Insights from Big Data

In this Forbes.com article, Making Big Data Fast, Howard Baldwin makes a great point about data needing to be FAST

Big Data vs. Fast Data

This article “Which Do We Need More: Big Data or Fast Data?” from Entrepreneur.com shines a light on the buzz

Which OLAP is Best?

OLAP technology has continued to develop, a good indicator of its broad applicability in the software solution market. And though

Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses

The article, The File-less Organization: Why Excel Isn’t Enough for Businesses, from Dataversity.net is quite astute in the way it identifies Excel

4 Bad BI Habits to Drop in 2015

This article from the Sisense blog has a valuable little list of Bad BI Habits to Break in 2015. To-dos for the

Will Business Intelligence ever be Intelligent?

From Forbes.com, this article sparked a lot of interaction on our social media outlets, and we think it is an

Is HTAP the latest type of OLAP?

Some vendors have run from the four letters OLAP…and yet, articles continue to be published, and assertions made, that “analytical

The Need for Business Analytics, even Inside the Dean’s Office

You may not think that business analytics as a concept applies to academics, but access to meaningful and timely information

Infographic: Why BI is Key for Competitive Advantage

A great infograhic from the Master of Science in Computer Information Systems program at Boston University. The BU researchers focused

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Follow Tutorials to Learn about OLAP

Exercises with a real OLAP product will teach you about Business Intelligence and OLAP basics.

These tutorials give you a chance to get hands on with data modeling and analysis with access to actual software and step-by-step instructions. To follow these tutorials as they are intended, please first download the Free OLAP and Business Intelligence software provided by our sponsors at PARIS Tech.

OLAP Tutorials

Learn about Different Types of OLAP Systems

Read about different types of OLAP and what is new in the market now.

First there was ROLAP, and then MOLAP, and Hybrid systems as well as in-memory systems. Read about what defines different systems, their limitations and what is trending in the OLAP and Business Intelligence market now.

Types of OLAP