Logistical Analysis and Reporting System

Success of Analysis Services and the entire Business Intelligence market was predefined by incredible growth of amounts of data accumulated as a result of everyday functioning of a large number of companies. Today it's hard to imagine a business or an organization that doesn't use an online transaction processing (OLTP) system. OLTP systems provide means to highly efficient execution of a large number of small transactions and reliable access to data stored in the result of the transactions.

The volume of the data stored and processed for one day by an OLTP system could be several gigabytes per day; after a period of time, the total volume of data can reach to the tens and even hundreds of terabytes. Such a large volume of data can be hard to store, but it is a valuable source of information for understanding the way the enterprise functions. This data can prove very helpful for making projections that lead to successful strategic decisions, and for improving everyday decision making.

It's easy to see why analysis of data has become so important to the management of modern enterprises. However, OLTP systems are not well suited to analyzing data. In the past decades, an entire new market has emerged for systems that can provide reliable and fast access for analyzing very large amounts of data: online analytical processing (OLAP). OLAP enables managers, executives, and analysts to gain insight into data using fast, interactive, and consistent interfaces to a wide variety of possible views of information. For example, with OLAP solution, you can request informatio

Success of Analysis Services and the entire Business Intelligence market was predefined by incredible growth of amounts of data accumulated as a result of everyday functioning of a large number of companies. Today it's hard to imagine a business or an organization that doesn't use an online transaction processing (OLTP) system. OLTP systems provide means to highly efficient execution of a large number of...