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...
by Jack Guarneri | Dec 9, 2014 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI System, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence Suite, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Technology and Trends
Some vendors have run from the four letters OLAP…and yet, articles continue to be published, and assertions made, that “analytical processing” is entering a new phase. There’s a new acronym in the market, HTAP, which stands for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical...
by Bill Tastle | Nov 19, 2014 | BI Studies, Business Analytics, OLAP
You may not think that business analytics as a concept applies to academics, but access to meaningful and timely information is critical to the proper function of a dean’s office. Anyone who has been a dean or worked in the dean’s office knows that. And, like...
by Bill Tastle | Sep 23, 2014 | Application/Data Integration, BI Strategy, BI Studies, BI System, Business Intelligence Suite, Data Analysis, OLAP, OLAP and Excel
By Bill Tastle, our newest OLAP.com contributor As a Professor at an AACSB accredited business school, I am responsible for preparing business students who are eager to enter the marketplace upon graduation. Naturally, I spend a lot of time researching about what...
by Blogger@olap | Jun 2, 2014 | OLAP, Technology and Trends
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...
