Online analytical processing: MicroStrategy, Essbase, Comparison of OLAP Servers, OLAP cube, Microsoft Analysis Services

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: MicroStrategy, Essbase, Comparison of OLAP Servers, OLAP cube, Microsoft Analysis Services, MultiDimensional eXpressions, Holos, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, ROLAP, Yellowfin Business Intelligence, Dimensional Insight, XLCubed, XML for Analysis, Palo, Panorama Software, CubePort, MOLAP, Applix, TM1, Crystal Analysis, Oracle OLAP, Rtolap, HOLAP, OLE DB for OLAP, Mondrian OLAP server, Thomsen Diagrams, SAP BI Accelerator, ProClarity, FASMI, BusinessObjects OLAP Intelligence. Excerpt: MicroStrategy, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), is a business intelligence (BI), enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP (on-line analytical processing) software vendor. MicroStrategy's software allows reporting and analysis of data stored in a relational database, multidimensional database, or flat data file. BI software helps companies understand and make sense of the data they collect, in order to make more strategic business decisions. MicroStrategy describes its core reporting software as having a "ROLAP" or Relational Online Analytic Processing architecture, and specializes in decision-support systems that run against very large databases or data warehouses. It also supports "MOLAP" or Multidimensional Online Analytic Processing, for reporting and analysis of data stored in multidimensional cubes or databases like Microsoft Analysis Services, SAP BW, IBM Cognos TM1 and Oracle Essbase. MicroStrategy provides an integrated platform for business intelligence applications. The company has entered into the mobile BI market with products such as MicroStrategy Mobile and MicroStrategy Mobile Suite. As with its other BI offerings, MicroStrategy has included protections for platform and user data through features for device, data, authentication, authorization, and transmission security. MicroStrategy has also been recognized as one of the ear...