Octopai

JANUARY 21, 2020

This is how the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube was born, which you might call one of the grooviest BI inventions developed in the 70s. It’s a snapshot of data at a specific point in time, at the end of a day, week, month or year. Saving time and headaches with online analytical processing tool.

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Jet Global

APRIL 20, 2020

This practice, together with powerful OLAP (online analytical processing) tools, grew into a body of practice that we call “business intelligence.” Such BI methodologies are built on a snapshot of what happened in the past.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts, and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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Business Intelligence Dashboards Data mining OLAP 144

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But what most people don’t realize is that behind the scenes, Uber is not just a transportation service; it’s a data and analytics powerhouse. This blog takes you on a journey into the world of Uber’s analytics and the critical role that Presto, the open source SQL query engine, plays in driving their success.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 21, 2023

Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. In our analytic use case, if we are analyzing quarterly growth rates, we may only need a couple of years’ worth of data; the rest can be unloaded into the data lake.

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