Dickeson--Give Poor Roger's OLAP a Look

Most of us in printing use relational database technology for accounting and production files. Job-cost and general-ledger files we keep in relational tables; transaction processing is what we do.

That's cool, but industry is zipping by us, leveraging data to make critical decisions. Printers are living in the days of OLTP: Online Transaction Processing. But the world around us is moving into variants of OLAP: Online Analytical Processing technology.