In this special guest feature Ajay Anand, Vice President of Products at Kyvos Insights, gives his views on speed and interactivity of OLAP and the scalability and flexibility of Hadoop. Previously he ...

Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

What good is big data if you don’t have the proper tools to make sense of it? A startup, Kyvos Insights, can transform terabytes of information stored on Hadoop clusters into easy-to-parse data cubes, ...

<B>Background: (Feel free to skip)</B><BR>I'm starting a project here at work to explore using OLAP techniques to start working more intelligently with our data.<BR><BR>Towards this end I got familiar ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...