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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

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An inventory count sheet, for example, extracts information from the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and may even present dollar figures associated with each unique stock-keeping unit (SKU). Multi-dimensional analysis is sometimes referred to as “OLAP”, which stands for “online analytical processing.”

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible. Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age.