Contents
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OLAP Report consists of over 100 sections, each updated individually.
Each section shows the date when it was last updated. This page
was last updated on
October 17, 2006.
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Information available only to subscribers
Recent or popular product reviews
ALG EPO 2.1
A sophisticated driver-based planning and budgeting system, based on activity
based costing (ABC) roots
Information Builders WebFOCUS 7.1
Though not often mentioned in the same sentence as OLAP, WebFOCUS can
actually provide simple OLAP reporting on a vast range of data sources,
both modern and legacy
Applix TM1 9.0
TM1 Web is now more scalable
BusinessObjects XI Release 2
First impressions of the fully merged Business Objects product family
Cognos 8 BI
A first look at Cognos 8 BI, which supersedes PowerPlay
Tableau 1.5
An innovative new multi-pane visual analysis tool
Microsoft Analysis Services 2000
with a preview of the 2005 release
The next major release of Microsoft’s popular server is delayed
to at least summer 2005, but there are other developments in the Microsoft
OLAP world, including the release of Microsoft’s first OLAP Excel
add-in.
IBM Cube Views 8.2
IBM’s database performance and metadata bridge product is getting
nearer to becoming a full ROLAP engine
ProClarity 6.0 and 6.1
The most popular third-party front-end for Analysis Services, now owned
by Microsoft
Full
list of product reviews
Recent or popular subscriber-only analyses
New: FAQ:
Open source BI/OLAP
Open source software has had a big impact in some other areas, but is
only just beginning to be taken seriously in BI and OLAP
Applying the SPM maturity model
Using the Strategic Performance Management maturity
model for more effective management
Top 21 tips
Practical, punchy — and sometimes surprising — advice
OLAP and spreadsheets —
friends or foes?
OLAP applications are often installed to replace collapsing spreadsheet
systems, but this doesn’t mean that the spreadsheet needs to be
banished entirely
Storing multidimensional data
The key to OLAP performance is the efficient storage of large volumes
of multidimensional data
Full
list of analyses
Recent case studies
IBM Finance
A CFO portal provides a highly cost-effective global
solution to analysis, reporting and performance management applications
BP Exploration & Production
A sophisticated, international planning system that is much faster and
more reliable than the spreadsheet-based system it replaced.
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Information available to anyone
The 2005 OLAP market shares are now available,
and show a small drop in growth rates but no changes in the top six positions
in the table.
OLAP Consolidations
The wave of BI consolidations peaked in 2003, but there have been more
than 30 since the mid 1990s. Microsoft
acquiring ProClarity
and Applix acquiring Temtec are just
the latest of this wave.
The OLAP Survey 5
The latest, expanded edition of The OLAP Survey is now available, with
even more analyses of the real-world experiences of 2100 sites.
OLAP vendor financial results
Revenue, license fee and earnings trends of the dwindling band of publicly-quoted
OLAP specialists, all of which are now growing again, but at very different
rates.
Commentaries on:
Free Analyses
What is OLAP?
Two alternative definitions of OLAP
Database explosion
The most complete explanation of what really causes OLAP database explosion,
and how to avoid it.
How not to buy an OLAP
Invaluable practical advice to avoid the hidden traps that catch many
OLAP buyers
The origins of today’s OLAP products
A succinct perspective on over 40 years of evolution of multidimensional
analysis, now updated for 2005
OLAP applications
The technology is powerful, but where do people use it?
OLAP architectures
MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP... What do they all mean?
Full
list of analyses
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The OLAP Report is now part of Business Application Research
Center
BARC, a respected independent German BI industry analyst and consulting
firm now owns The OLAP Report. This will increase the resources
available, while continuing The OLAP Report’s consistent policy
of strict independence.
Press release
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well as product and general market analysis, The OLAP Report also
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John Morter
Regional IT Delivery Manager
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word of thanks for the information contained within The OLAP Report.
This is my third year of subscribing and I find the report an invaluable
aid.”
Matthew
Croft
Finance Manager - MI Development
Prudential UK
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“The
OLAP Report is more than just a report. It has been developed and
is being updated with a great deal of passion and perspicacity.
No book or textbook can claim to contain the wealth of information
that the OLAP Report provided me with.”
Aziz Guergachi,
Ph.D.
Professor
School of information Technology Management
Ryerson University
Toronto, Ontario
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to make the most of their OLAP projects. However, about a tenth of the
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