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OLAP delivers the simplest form of analysis, allowing anyone to slice
and dice interrelated subsets of data or "cubes" with the click
of a mouse. Users can analyze data using standard OLAP features such as
page-by, pivot, sort, filter and drill up/down to flip through a series
of report views. OLAP Analysis offers users primary access to their data
warehouses in lieu of more advanced analysis functionality required by
power users and analysts.
Most OLAP vendors provide multi-dimensional OLAP (MOLAP) solutions to
perform this type of analysis, but limited cube capacity has burdened
many IT administrators with deploying and managing hundreds of overlapping
cube databases to keep pace with growing organizational demands. To get
the most out of BI applications, however, OLAP analysis needs to extend
beyond the standard MOLAP cube and provide full speed-of-thought interactivity
against the entire data warehouse.
MicroStrategy delivers OLAP Analysis with Intelligent Cubes™ --
a new analysis environment that lets business users easily and safely
explore beyond the boundaries of pre-defined cubes to reach the full depth
and breadth of their data warehouses -- without relying on IT to create
and maintain the cube data. With Intelligent Cubes, MicroStrategy's platform
architecture seamlessly combines the speed and interactivity of MOLAP
analysis with the analytical power and depth of relational OLAP (ROLAP)
for a complete range of OLAP analytical functionality.
MicroStrategy Platform Features that Support
OLAP Analysis:
"Speed-of-Thought" Analysis and Real-time Report
Manipulation
MicroStrategy technology lets users perform "speed-of-thought"
report analysis and manipulate reports on-the-fly. Multi-dimensional data
caches are populated instantly and remain available to all authorized
users as long as the data is valid. IT managers no longer have to manage
multiple cube farms.
Secure Sharing of Intelligent Cube Data
MicroStrategy's centralized metadata and server architecture makes sharing
Intelligent Cube data easy and secure. Users can create and save personalized
views of the same Intelligent Cube by adding, editing and removing business
attributes and metrics.
Automatic Cube Creation, Population and Data
Synchronization
MicroStrategy delivers cube analysis by automatically creating and populating
Intelligent Cubes in the centralized metadata for user across the enterprise.
Automatic data synchronization ensures that Intelligent Cube data is always
up-to-date -- without IT administrator maintenance.
Effortless Drilling from
Summary Data to Transaction-level Details
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