Is OLAP Limited To Multidimensional Analysis?
OLAP goes beyond multidimensional analysis, enabling interactive calculations & pattern discovery in business data, requiring flexible querying & computing capabilities, not just pre-built cubes.
The word OLAP literally means online analysis, which means that personnel perform various interactive analysis operations on data. However, the current concept of OLAP has been severely narrowed down by BI software. When it comes to OLAP on business analysis, it often only has the function of multidimensional analysis in technology, which is to summarize a pre-built data cube according to the specified dimension level and present it as a table or graph, supplemented by operations such as drilling, aggregation, rotation, slicing, etc. to change the dimension level and summary range. These are f...