OLAP extensions to Microsoft's flagship database software that enable users to perform "what if" analyses on their data. Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL ...

Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho Corporation today released version 1.0 of olap4j, an open Java API for building OLAP applications. According to the originator of olap4j, Julian ...

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SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the ...

Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of ...

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, with its Unified Dimensional Model, has turbo-charged its OLAP capabilities. These new OLAP solutions can be useful to your business because they're more powerful ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 9, 2001 — In the two years since Microsoft Corp. made its debut in the online analytical processing (OLAP) space, Microsoft® SQL Server™ has overtaken competitors to become the ...

Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of ...