CHAPTER 11Multidimensional Analysis
If you have designed a logical, business-oriented universe, designers need to do very little to provide users with multidimensional analysis capabilities. Drill capabilities are automatically available to users; there is no need to explicitly build a cube. With robust measures, users can further perform rankings, top ten queries, and so on against relational data sources.
In addition, you can also build a universe that accesses a Microsoft Analysis Services cube or Oracle Essbase. With the synchronized multiple data providers in Web Intelligence, users can create a report that spans both relational data sources and OLAP data sources. OLAP-based universes allow OLAP users to access the full range of Web Intelligence ...
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