by sazmoodley | Dec 9, 2014 | Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, Data Management, General BI and Data Management, OLAP, Olation
We at PARIS Technologies have been audaciously proud proponents of OLAP for a long time. We named our initial product PowerOLAP. Released over 10 years, it is still considered by many as “the most Excel-user friendly” technology on the market. You could say that we’ve...
by sazmoodley | Oct 30, 2014 | Budgeting, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, General BI and Data Management, Ms Excel, OLAP, PowerOLAP, Reporting
Folks, there is a LOT you can do with PowerOLAP. Even people who have been using it for years aren’t fully aware of all the capabilities available within PowerOLAP. Perhaps you are a user of PowerOLAP but you generally access the same reports all the time. In...
by | Oct 17, 2014 | Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, Ms Excel, OLAP, PowerOLAP, Reporting
Yes, it’s Maradona, Maracana, and Multidimensionality Using PowerOLAP to Analyze World Cup Data It started with a limerick. Exactly why I decided to express in a 5-line poem the ridiculously named “hand of God” incident, when Diego Maradona punched the ball into...
by | Feb 27, 2013 | Data Analysis, infographic, Learning Center, OLAP, Software
In-memory database systems (IMDB) also referred to as main-memory database system (MMDB) are a growing subset of a database management system (DBMS) software, which primarily relies on main memory for computer data storage rather than a disk storage mechanism. ACID...
by | Feb 25, 2013 | Business Intelligence (BI), Learning Center, OLAP
The two most promising Business Intelligence (BI) technologies are: OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Despite falling in the same category of Business Intelligence tools, they are considerably different from the other....
by | Oct 28, 2011 | Learning Center, OLAP
OLAP is an acronym for Online Analytical Processing. OLAP performs multidimensional analysis of business data and provides the capability for complex calculations, trend analysis, and sophisticated data modeling. It is quickly becoming the fundamental foundation for...
