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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

Octopai

How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? BI groups spend more than 50% of their time and effort manually searching for metadata. 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.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

OLAP cubes Used for multi-dimensional analysis Strategic Objective When a vendor-specific connector is not available, generic connectors provide flexibility with data. Metadata Self-service analysis is made easy with user-friendly naming conventions for tables and columns. Requirement ODBC/JDBC Used for connectivity. addresses).