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What is OLAP analysis

OlAP analysis is a growing in popularity technology that allows business to analyze and evaluate all the data collected throughout its existence. Proper data analysis is essential for making decisions, choose right behavior, create accurate reports, finding what affects business the most.

OLAP analysis tool functionality

First OLAP analysis tool needs a data source which can be a relational table, a database or something else. The data collected from a data source then needs to be converted into a special data form - a multidimensional cube. Data stored in a cube is the most convenient for fast analysis and representation.

For data processing OLAP has special tools to work with in a cube. You can:

Pick values to create smaller cubes, which eases analysis;

Navigate through data and find both the detailed and the summarized ones;

Rotate cube to see all of it's dimensions;

Summarize data to compute it.

Furthermore OLAP analysis tool expands the scope of opportunities you are given. With OLAP analysis tool you can not only just analyze or calculate data but also create rich reports and update them in real time, visualize data to understand and explain it to others and more.

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