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A book/CD-ROM covering basic concepts through advanced features of OLAP technology, describing both logical features, such as dimensions and hypercubes, and physical features, such as storage and access methods, using real-life case studies on topics including planning for sales and marketing and portfolio analysis. The CD-ROM contains OLAP software for the case studies, a functional version of each case study, a copy of the product used to create the book's visualizations, and functional versions of the visualizations, plus a list of vendors and tools. For IT and computer science professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations. Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master.Substantially updated with expanded coverage of implementation methods for data storage, access, and calculation; also, new chapters added to combine OLAP with data warehouse, mining, and decision support toolsTeaches the best practices for building OLAP models that improve business and organizational decision-making, completely independent of commercial tools, using revised case studiesCompanion Web site provides updates on OLAP standards and tools, code examples, and links to valuable resources
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