Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

Silicon Valley startup Kyvos Insights today emerged from stealth mode, trumpeting a new way for ordinary business users to conduct Big Data analytics. Adding a slight twist to the dozens of similar ...

Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them with a cube through which they can explore data.

Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity drivers, has announced the beta release of its native Microsoft Excel 2007 connector to Oracle ...

Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

While Hadoop has had the potential to transform the way data warehouses are deployed for quite some time, IT organizations still wind up moving data from Hadoop into a traditional data warehouse, ...

Pablo will ship with A La Carte, a solution that will add a host of new rich features to Microsoft Excel and allow users to adopt the widespread product as their standard business intelligence (BI) ...

Microsoft offers an array of OLAP APIs for developing top-notch dedicated OLAP applications, adding OLAP functionality to your existing apps, and more. Examine ADO MD.NET for OLAP data access, ...