Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a powerful and essential tool in every BI toolbox, enabling decisionmakers to easily explore operational data in powerful ways. OLAP is fundamentally a descriptive tool. It provides intelligence about what has happened and can trigger an effective, albeit reactive, response.
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About The Author
Ken Collier is the former director of Cutter's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice. He is a leader in combining agile methods with data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), and advanced analytics -- disciplines that present a unique set of challenges to the incremental/evolutionary style of agile development. Mr. Collier has successfully adapted agile techniques to DW/BI to create the Agile Analytics style. He continues… Read More
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