OLAP Last modified: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Short for Online Analytical Processing, a category of software tools that provides analysis of data stored in a database. OLAP tools enable users to analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data. For example, it provides time series and trend analysis views. OLAP often is used in data mining. The chief component of OLAP is the OLAP server, which sits between a client and a database management systems (DBMS). The OLAP server understands how data is organized in the database and has special functions for analyzing the data. There are OLAP servers available for nearly all the major database systems.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about OLAP . Also check out the following links! Alta Plana's OLAP Page Offers links to OLAP related Web sites, documentation and resources, corporate pages, and consultants. OLAP glossary Offers OLAP and OLAP server term definitions. OLAP on the Web This Internet Systems article, from January 1997, describes the trend to enable OLAP tools to work with Web browsers and servers.	Business Tools Databases data mining database database management system decision support system drill down multidimensional DBMS OLTP Give Us Your Feedback OLAP Products : Top Store Offers: Dell SMB  88.00Software Updates License & Support provides customers with the right to product upgrades and 24x7 technical support. Product upgrades includes upgrade... VioSoftware.com  1489.99SQL Server 2000 Standard with 5 CALs Software Media.com  1350.00Develop your database solutions with the new and enhanced capabilities of SQL Server 2000. Built on the extensible foundation of SQL Server 7.0, it re... Dell SMB  400.00Oracle OLAP, an option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, provides valuable insight into business operations and markets using features previo... TRUSTprice.com  1683.33Part name: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 with 25-User CAL Client Access License Retail Box, Site id: 555578, SKU: 228-00327, UPC: 093007473168 Compare all matches: 0 Store Offers