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The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them ...

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Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based data access products, solutions and services for both relational and multi-dimensional data sources, has announced that Oracle's Technology ...

Once enterprise data is poured into the data lake, it looks much as a large body of liquid would. Lots of water as far as the eye can see, without any distinguishing features. To help businesses solve ...

Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

Oracle has introduced Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. 'The new release allows customers to integrate relational and OLAP analysis across a multitude of different federated data sources and presents ...

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Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

You may be tired of hearing about yet another decision support technology, but Olap is one you can?t afford to ignore for long. Clive Couldwell explains why DON?T be fooled by the name. Olap, or ...