MicroStrategy BI OLAP Analysis

Business Intelligence Software MicroStrategy OLAP Analysis

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.

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