While the STATISTICA line of applications is best known for more advanced analytic applications than those offered via the popular OLAP approach, those users who need the OLAP technology to efficiently produce flexible views of data and automated reports have at their disposal the STATISTICA OLAP module - the highest-performance, flexible, and entirely platform-independent OLAP technology available on the market, fully integrated into the STATISTICA system.
The STATISTICA OLAP system can leverage data from multiple existing data sources and distribute filtered information to end-user communities in the format that best meets their needs. This robust, scalable technology supports powerful querying, OLAP models of practically unlimited complexity, and flexible write-back and security model.
This powerful tool enables you to use all advantages of the OLAP approach and technology within your STATISTICA system environment to rapidly generate meaningful views of data (pivot tables and graphs), drill down (and up), slice and dice your data, and quickly gain the most revealing insights from large amounts of data.
STATISTICA OLAP can be integrated into any suite of STATISTICA applications, from network products to all enterprise systems including all WebSTATISTICA based systems. It is also a natural (although optional) component of STATISTICA and WebSTATISTICA Data Warehouse environments.
Countless applications of STATISTICA OLAP within the desktop (networked) or WebSTATISTICA-based environment fall into one of following three categories:
Interactive Exploratory Analysis and Mining. With the help of STATISTICA OLAP, this, perhaps most common application of OLAP technology can be made available within the STATISTICA (desktop of Web-based) environment and supported with a powerful client interface that builds on the long tradition of STATISTICA's user-friendliness and customizability.
Flexible Report Generation. All output generated by STATISTICA OLAP - that is, any data views created from its flexible OLAP cubes - can be reviewed via any of STATISTICA's powerful output facilities including (a) multimedia tables, (b) fully customizable graphs, and (b) reports. Also, all OLAP views of data can be directed into Knowledge Portals and Interactive Knowledge Portals and integrated into the complete business reporting and STATISTICA customizable business intelligence distribution systems.
Creating new data sets for analyses by unfolding multiple OLAP table views (e.g., un-stacking, intelligent merging, layering). A set of powerful tools is available to combine multiple OLAP table reports into data sets suitable for advanced analyses, such as predictive data mining, time series and business forecasting, yield analysis, or designs of experiments - using the complete, rich set of tools available in STATISTICA. This unique functionality automates the process of building aggregated data sets and enables you to intelligently combine multiple components (e.g., OLAP slices) into integrated data sets optimized for the desired types of advanced analyses.
As all applications and solutions in the STATISTICA family of products, the STATISTICA OLAP features comprehensive COM/API support and is fully programmable and customizable, using industry standard programming tools such as Visual Basic, C++, Java, or HTML.
STATISTICA OLAP supports not only practically all industry standard (and OLAP-compatible) sources of data, including products from all major vendors of database management systems, but it is also fully compatible with both of the two emerging OLAP platforms: XML for Analysis and JOLAP.
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