by Melinda Santos | May 17, 2018 | OLAP
Not too long ago businesses found it very difficult to query data out of their recently acquired relational databases. These queries were too slow to be processed by computer systems of the time as well as too inflexible to navigate the data. After trying different...
by Blogger@olap | Sep 27, 2016 | Application/Data Integration, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Technology and Trends
OLAP and Hadoop: A Great Pairing OLAP continues to be a relevant and exciting technology, most recently in pairing OLAP and Hadoop. As we are OLAP.com, we have ALWAYS seen the value of OLAP technology. We admit OLAP has been a bit out of style the last few years. Some...
by Lesley Burke | Jul 11, 2016 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Planning, Data Management, OLAP
Human Resources is beginning to pull ahead in the Business Analytics world. One thing is certain, if you want to run a successful business, you need to hire the right people to help you get there. Who is in charge of recruiting and hiring your team members?...
by Blogger@olap | Sep 16, 2015 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI System, OLAP and Excel, PARIS Tech blog, Spreadsheets, Technology and Trends
“Excel is one of those applications that the business world cannot live without.” So says one of 27 Excel experts commenting on Microsoft’s Power BI Suite and its effect on the great wide world of spreadsheet users. As Excel lovers, we couldn’t agree more! There’s a...
by Blogger@olap | Feb 23, 2015 | BI Strategy, Data Management, OLAP
OLAP technology has continued to develop, a good indicator of its broad applicability in the software solution market. And though newer doesn’t always mean improved, our opinion is that the most recent OLAP technologies are faster and (generally) better than...
by Blogger@olap | Jan 26, 2015 | BI Strategy, Business Reporting, Data Visualization, OLAP, OLAP and Excel, Strategic Dashboards, Technology and Trends
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 as a problem–noting that each manager gathers his or her own version of the numbers to bring to a meeting. And so...
