Accessing multidimensional data through natural text-based user interactivity
Richardus Eko Indrajit, Elwin Ardririanto, Ferdi Aria Sukmana · 2004
Until currently, the common techniques in accessing a multidimensional data is perceived to be in a complex form since it is presented within the OLAP interactivity mode environment. The advantages of using such OLAP approach is that it hides almost entirely and transparently the complexity of building SQL syntax for any kind of report view perspectives that an end user might want to produce. However, this OLAP kind of end user experience obviously needs adequate device, processing, and memory capability at the client side thus limiting the accessibility and availability of multidimensional data. It is believed that there is also a need to gain access to such multidimensional data from other digital devices---such as hand phone, personal digital assistant, and other mobile computing - that has limited presentation, processing, and memory capabilities. Even though most new developed end user gadgets have already had Java or others virtual machine technology embedded on it, it is still a fact that a natural form of complexity of OLAP kind presentation does not fit into simplistic nature of such devices. This paper presents a framework of an architecture to access multidimensional data through simple, clean, and natural text based user interactivity that could be implemented using either electronic mail or Short Message Services (SMS) user input gateway.