OLAP Council (1997) define Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) as a group of decision support system that facilitate fast, consistent and interactive access of information that has been reformulate, transformed and summarized from relational dataset mainly from data warehouse into Multi-Dimensional Databases (MDDB) which allow optimal data retrieval and for performing trend analysis. OLAP is an important concept for strategic database analysis. OLAP have the ability to analyze large amount of data for the extraction of valuable information. Analytical development can be of business, education or medical sectors. The technologies of data warehouse, OLAP, and analyzing tools support that ability.
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) enable discovering pattern and relationship contain in business activity by query tons of data from multiple database source systems at one time.… Read the rest