Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

Silicon Valley startup Kyvos Insights today emerged from stealth mode, trumpeting a new way for ordinary business users to conduct Big Data analytics. Adding a slight twist to the dozens of similar ...

Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them with a cube through which they can explore data.

The popularity of Microsoft Excel has never waned. Today, a whopping 1.1 billion users globally rely on it for multidimensional analysis in areas such as "scenario planning, supply chain optimization, ...

Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity drivers, has announced the beta release of its native Microsoft Excel 2007 connector to Oracle ...

Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

Microsoft offers an array of OLAP APIs for developing top-notch dedicated OLAP applications, adding OLAP functionality to your existing apps, and more. Examine ADO MD.NET for OLAP data access, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pablo will ship with A La Carte, a solution that will add a host of new rich features to Microsoft Excel and allow users to adopt the widespread product as their standard business intelligence (BI) ...