IBM DB2 Cube Views Review

OLAP REPORT REVIEW: IBM DB2 Cube Views 8.2

Author: Nigel Pendse Released: 2005 Pages: 28 Single User Price: $695 USD An in-depth product evaluation and rating The latest release of Cube Views, which acts as OLAP middleware in DB2 8.2. Find out how DB2 Cube Views can improve the performance of other OLAP tools, as well as making them run faster and easier to deploy. Although not an OLAP tool as such, this middleware product is of particular relevance to OLAP deployments running on IBM databases. In this 28-page review, extensively illustrated with screen shots and examples, you will discover how Cube Views delivers two important functions: An OLAP metadata repository to share OLAP structural information between ETL and BI tools, both from IBM and third parties. An improved implementation of materialized views to improve the performance of a variety of queries. The review explains how Cube Views works with a range of BI tools from a number of vendors to improve performance, particularly in the case of applications that involve relational database queries. This includes detailed explanation of how this is achieved and the kinds of benefits that can be achieved. Learn which BI vendors have adapted their products to take advantage of Cube Views' performance-enhancing features and how it can make multi-vendor solutions easier by sharing multidimensional metadata. You will also discover the potential for turning this product into a far more substantial and fully-featured OLAP server. A sample of the numerous specially generated screenshots from this review. Click to enlarge.

Contents: Introduction Vendor overview IBM’s other BI projects Product commercial issues Pricing Database structure and capacity Metadata sharing Metadata mappin Metadata bridges Materialized Query Tables Calculation functionality Reporting flexibility Time series intelligence Performance Conclusions Ask a question about this product? Other customers also purchased: BusinessObjects XI Review Microsoft Analysis Services 2000 Review Hyperion Essbase Review Email a colleague about this product

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