BI scorecard: OLAP part five in a series of reviews evaluating business intelligence suites one functional area at a time

摘要

If you've been following this series of reviews of BI products, you may have noticed that I've been discussing analysis capabilities in increasing order of complexity. In the Reporting segment, I examined interactive reports, which allow drilling into detail. In the next segment of the series, I looked at spreadsheet integration, which provides more flexibility and is one of the most popular tools for analysis. A spreadsheet can take analysis just so far, however; for more robust analysis you need online analytic processing (QLAP).