Microsoft's OLAP product, bundled free in SQL Server, outperformed its more expensive competitors in some categories of a recent user survey done jointly by a longtime OLAP industry analyst and a ...

OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL ...

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In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion ...

In the fog of the Big Data era, OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) gets little mention from the press or the industry analysts. The reality is, OLAP is quite vital today for a simple reason: most ...

SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the ...

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 ...

Using a name that sounds a lot like the one Microsoft Corp. chose last summer, Oracle Corp. on Tuesday said that its combined online analytical processing (OLAP) tools and data mining technology will ...

Clicking on the link to one small OLAP software vendor leads to the entrance for a pornographic Web site, which has assumed the defunct company's URL. If this is any indication, it is not the best of ...