Dickeson--The Analytical Power of OLAP

When we try to quantify the impact of all those thousands of variables and take affirmative action, we throw up our hands in frustration. No way to analyze this mass of data. We revert to anecdotes: "Let me tell you what happened on press 22 last Thursday..."

Maybe we're getting a tad closer to finding significant and relevant relationships by using the analytic power of our personal computers to establish such relationships and trends. With OLAP, we take a multidimensional view of the data via MDBMS (multidimensional data- base management).