Download the OLAP 101 eBook
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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A quick reference guide to commonly used Business Intelligence and OLAP words. Keep up with the techie talk with this handy reference.
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Four Ways to Leverage BI for Executive-Level Reporting
Businesses today have an increasing volume of sales performance data available from multiple sources. While most companies understand the potential value of this data, many struggle to turn it into actionable insights--especially at the executive level. Why? Because...
What makes a data visualization memorable?
It’s easy to spot a “bad” data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant at best, useless at worst, labeling them “chart junk.” Yet a debate still...
Five Key Principles of a BI Program
The partner to the data warehouse in most cases is business intelligence. The proper foundation for data storage is critical, but enabling the business to drive value and make good decisions will take your organization to the next level. To achieve this, a business...
Tips for Creating More Compelling Data Visualizations
OLAP.com Commentary: This article from Computerworld uses an example from Nathan Yau's book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something to show how to draw users to points of interest when presenting data visually. When you look at a visualization for the first...
Health Care: Big Data’s Next Frontier
Better medical outcomes at lower cost -- these are the goals of modern health care. Data and analytics can play a major role in helping to achieve these objectives by enabling evidence-based decision making in the industry. Alas, with but a few exceptions, that...
How analytics can help communities visualize the future
An urban development initiative in Austin, Texas is using enormous amounts of data pulled from various agencies to create astonishing 3D simulations of what communities would look like based on certain assumptions and inputs contributed not only by engineers and city...
Follow OLAP Tutorials
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.
Learn about 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.
Download the World Cup Analysis eBook
This eBook takes it beyond just business, showing what can be done with OLAP technology with any kind of data. In this case, it’s sports data, applying OLAP technology to World Cup data.