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Summary: extremely obsolete software
Review: It is a good introduction. However, what makes me *MAD* is that the software accompanied can not run on Excel 97! It seems that it is developed on Windows 3.1! Is there anyone in this world still using Window 3.1?
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Summary: Good OLAP Methodology
Review: OLAP is a somewhat arcane corner of the IT universe and this book is a good guide to it for information and business professionals. It covers the basics well and provides decent exaples to get you going. Of course, the hardest part of OLAP is making the conceptual leap from relational databases and transactional processing to the world of analytical processing, but finance experts and accountants will appreciate OLAP and its ability to summarize data in a way that is hard to do in most ERP and legacy systems.
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Summary: Good OLAP Methodology
Review: OLAP is a somewhat arcane corner of the IT universe and this book is a good guide to it for information and business professionals. It covers the basics well and provides decent exaples to get you going. Of course, the hardest part of OLAP is making the conceptual leap from relational databases and transactional processing to the world of analytical processing, but finance experts and accountants will appreciate OLAP and its ability to summarize data in a way that is hard to do in most ERP and legacy systems.
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Summary: A key reource for building an intelligent enterprise
Review: OLAP technology enables a data analyst to view information in multiple dimensions, e.g., sales by territory by saleperson, by quarter. This is the definitive book on how OLAP works.
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Summary: Solid Intro to OLAP and Multidimensional Databases
Review: Solid introduction to OLAP and Multidimensional Databases, but not adequate for serious database professionals. The book does an excellent job of descriping the major issues and concepts of designing MDD solutions. Since the writiing style is accesable (overly simplistic at times) managers and analysts will find this book very helpful in understanding the issues that their database professional is facing.
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Summary: Good introduction to OLAP
Review: This book clearly explains the major concepts behind sucessful OLAP designs. I wish I had read it when I first started designing OLAP databases. This book does not limit itself to a single tool, but instead address the generic requirements of OLAP.
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Summary: Recommended for OLAP hands-on course.
Review: This book has very excellent example. The example tries to explain in detail the OLAP advantage for building the decision making problem. If you are beginner in OLAP, I recommended to read this books. Easy to understand by stepping through the example. Before you read the datawarehousing stuff, buy this book first and try the software, because I feel OLAP/Data Mart is small but powerful enough. OLAP vs Datawarehousing = David vs Goliath.
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Summary: A OLAP book for beginners
Review: This book is for the beginner just getting introduced into OLAP tools. One problem is it does not provide good OLAP models for the vertical market place. If you are a datawarehouse professional I would recommend "Ralph Kimbulls Datawarehouse Toolkit"
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Summary: the best introductory book about OLAP
Review: This is a book that everyone dealing with OLAP must read (if is possible, the first one to be read on the subject). Precise conceptualization of the OLAP showing differences between its capabilities and other alternatives for surfing information in datawarehouses. If you read this book in conjunction with Ralph Kimball's books on Data Warehouse you will get the best information available.
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Summary: Good book, software obsolete
Review: This is a great book on the subject, even considering the fact that there are not so many books on OLAP out there... The major drawback is the software that doesn't function neither with Office 97 nor Office 2000. If anybody knows how to overcome this problem, please email me at external@inglab.com
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