By Michael Schrader, Dan Vlamis, Mike Nader, Chris Claterbos, Dave Collins, Mitch Campbell, Floyd Conrad
The one booklet to hide and evaluate Oracle's on-line analytic processing productsWith the purchase of Hyperion structures in 2007, Oracle reveals itself possessing the 2 so much able OLAP items at the market--Essbase and the OLAP choice to the Oracle Database. Written via the main a professional specialists on either Essbase and Oracle OLAP, this Oracle Press advisor explains how those items are comparable and the way they fluctuate. Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP may help you architect the Oracle OLAP product that's best suited in your software, and construct, song, and continue OLAP solutions.
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Calculations are centrally stored in the metadata for the system, rather than in specific reports or applications. We talk more about calculations throughout this book. ■■ Front-end analysis and reporting tools Front-end analysis and reporting tools communicate with the OLAP server and present multidimensional data to the end user. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, OLAP systems support user-friendly tools for analysis and reporting, including commercial and custom spreadsheet applications and functions for creating web-based dashboards and interactive reports.
End users can write queries to pull data from this single source of data, so that regardless of who asks the question, they will get consistent answers. Business Reporting Business reporting is about conveying information that is important to the organization and using that data to manage the business. Business reports have been around since the first data management systems were implemented. The original medium of reports was paper documents. Today, many organizations implement business reports online through dashboards and scorecards.
Over the course of this book, we describe OLAP technology in general and Oracle’s products for OLAP in particular. The next two sections provide a foundation upon which you can begin to build up your understanding of OLAP technology and OLAP products. We describe the benefits of OLAP, and then provide some basic information about OLAP systems and implementations. Why OLAP? An effective OLAP solution solves problems for both business users and IT departments. For business users, it enables fast and intuitive access to centralized data and related calculations for the purposes of analysis and reporting.