This site is a collection of information related to Online Analytical Processing.
You'll find about 20 links to web OLAP collections and more than 50 links to OLAP products.
These exciting and instructive pages are based on Excel and Access products. One finds there
a lot of useful tips, and a specific part for OLAP with Excel. A good way to practice some concepts learned here ...
This site, in English, also allows you to roam the OLAP world. And provides
the list of the major OLAP vendors. You have to pay a subscription to see certain pages, which really limits them
to the professionals.
The Planning Factory specialises in Retail Merchandise Planning, Financial Budgeting
and Management Information Systems. It contains some very good articles, I suggest you "You can do the cube".
This product from B&M Services is developed to correspond with the last tendencies of data processing, OLAP and
Data mining. It is a simple and understandable software product for analysis of large databases with a cube structure. It is used by analysts, managers and researchers
to visualize and analyze their data. A tutorial and an evaluation version of the software are available.
The first product of the French company Business Objects allows, since the
version 4.0, the access to informations stored in OLAP databases. It offers therefore a solution for interrogation,
analysis and reporting of multidimensionnal datas, whatever the OLAP engine selected.
These OLAP components allows end users to perform OLAP and statistical analyses using
current data from any relational database. ContourCube calculates a multidimensional hypercube, which is then presented as
a grid and/or graph. You can download a trial VCL or ActiveX version. Contour OLAPBrowser is a web-oriented software for data access,
analysis and interactive reporting on a single PC, on the local network or on the web. It provides multi-windowed user interface
for viewing interactive reports, web pages and MS Office documents in a single application. With OLAPBrowser users can slice
and dice through data, make graphical analysis, configure and print multiple reports with sub-second response times.
This product for web reporting and data analysis is especially suited to the web.
OLAP technology and java applets are well integrated. A version of the product is available on the web, with practical examples.
MicroStrategy provides enterprise decision support system software : With
DSS Server, DSS Agent, DSS Objects, ... you have all the tools to build data wahrehouse projects and to connect
to main RDBMS.
Since Oracle 9i, the OLAP engine is included in the relationnal database. Before this version, the
Oracle offer was named Oracle Express. I choose this product to build my multidimentional database in OLAP in practice.
Paris Technologies (hello from France) provides this complete and flexible product,
enabling end-users to perform fully integrated manipulations through Excel or a Web browser. PowerOlap includes a client tool set
for developers and an engine server for multidimensional modeling.
This forum in English will concern all these that already know one or several
multidimentional products, as well as these that want to impregnate with the OLAP world. One finds there replies
to technical questions, ideas for the choice of products, employment offers, ...
Please send me all your suggestions about this
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