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Best Practices for Effective Business Dashboards
The survival of any business depends on three basic principles—continuously increasing sales, operating efficiently by finding ways to cut costs, and increasing productivity. Achieving this ultimate business mission involves the cooperation of different operative...
New Study: Big Data Analytics Will Improve Patient Health Care
Big Data is making waves in almost every industry. On top of the list of crucial industries that Big Data analytics and intelligence could transform is Healthcare. According to a recent study by MeriTalk —The Big Data cure, Big Data will present many changes to the...
Top Requested Business Intelligence Software Features
According to recent research and a report by BI review company Software Advice in their Business Intelligence Software BuyerView for 2014, the image above depicts the most sought-after features in the BI market right now. There are a number of things to learn here: 1...
OLAP for Live Time Management—Time is Money!
OLAP applications have, by most accounts, made their biggest impact in Finance Departments. Of course, financial analysts aren’t the only staff who can benefit from OLAP capabilities. There are applications that provide reports and analyses to sales and marketing...
OLAP: More LIVE than Ever?
The Ongoing OLAP Revolution This is the first of several posts that will examine developments that continue to make OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) an exceptionally powerful, significantly valuable sector of the software solution market. As we will see,...
Olation Visionary Intelligence: The Future of Data Management
The future of data management lies in the fusion of database technologies. OLATION has pioneered this by joining relational and multidimensional database technologies (OLTP and OLAP) to serve as a one-stop solution for all data management needs. OLAP or Online...
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Types of OLAP Systems
MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP... what's the difference? And modern OLAP for this century.
History of OLAP and BI
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