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April 2010

April 2010

Greetings, fellow data analysts!

Back in a February 2007 blog entry on "Me, Myself and BI", Dr. Nicolas Bissantz explained why he hopes that OLAP is a 10 year workaround. Although it is still too early to take stock, you can at least avoid this workaround in certain situations as of February's DeltaMaster 5.4.3 release. Now, you can create DeltaMaster analysis models that directly access relational databases. In other words: tables instead of cubes - without OLAP.

Of course, we can't (and wouldn't want to) completely forgo this technology any time soon. When working with large volumes of data, OLAP is still the better choice because it uses precalculation to improve the query speed. Plus, OLAP modeling and analysis follow a very similar logic. Sometimes, however, these aspects aren't so important. And when you don't have an OLAP expert on hand, you know how valuable it is when you can take matters into your own hands.

We want solutions - not workarounds. And DeltaMaster is definitely a solution.

Best regards,

Your Bissantz & Company team

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