Unlimited amount of dimensions and measures.No more need to restructure data into a star or snowflake schema, which is complicated to perform at source level. ![]() Here are a few of the constraints icCube lifted: Leveraging this technology, icCube lifts all of the constraints that made OLAP cubes look IT intensive and rigid, while at the same time maintaining the compatibility with industry standards in the reporting and analytics world. IcCube is building on the state-of-the-art principles of in-memory columnar data stores as well as PhD-level mathematics based indexing. It introduced a spectacular way for business-analyst-type users to easily perform analyses of large volumes of business data. OLAP brought the groundbreaking change of decoupling the business model from the physical model and allowing for natural navigation paths, flexible multidimensional calculations, and conceptual data navigation that is intuitive and logical. ![]() At that time, business analysts where already struggling to get powerful and flexible insights through ad-hoc SQL queries. OLAP ( Online Analytical Processing) is certainly NOT a technology but a concept that was introduced into the Business Intelligence space over 20 years ago. We hear a lot about OLAP being an ageing technology replaced by brand new ones, but do we know what OLAP means?
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