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's OLAP product, bundled free in SQL Server, outperformed its more expensive competitors in some categories of a recent user survey done jointly by a longtime OLAP industry analyst and a ...

In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion ...

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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 ...

In order to fully understand the benefits of OLAP and the details of its effective implementation, it helps to examine the technology from two perspectives: (1) from that of the users and (2) from ...

Clicking on the link to one small OLAP software vendor leads to the entrance for a pornographic Web site, which has assumed the defunct company's URL. If this is any indication, it is not the best of ...