Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho Corporation today released version 1.0 of olap4j, an open Java API for building OLAP applications. According to the originator of olap4j, Julian ...

Microsoft offers an array of OLAP APIs for developing top-notch dedicated OLAP applications, adding OLAP functionality to your existing apps, and more. Examine ADO MD.NET for OLAP data access, ...

An Olap environment has three fundamental components: an Olap storage engine, a method of data access (often an API), and an analytic application that uses data queried from the Olap engine. While ...

Business users can view centralized data and perform related calculations for analysis and reporting with ease. IT can take advantage of OLAP solutions so that data warehouses and other relational ...

One way to do this is to consolidate online transaction processing (OLTP) and analysis (OLAP) applications onto a single platform. In fact, many respondents are already doing this, with 40% of ...

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’ ...

Startup Kyvos Insights emerged from stealth mode Tuesday, debuting its big data analytics software designed to glean insights from huge volumes of corporate data. Kyvos Insights, based in Los Gatos, ...

Crystal Decisions Inc.s Crystal Enterprise 8 Professional Edition data report server provides a fast, highly programmable tool for creating and distributing reports to users. However, this ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a component of BI (business intelligence) say Michael Schrader et al. in ‘Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP’ (www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “BI means different things to ...