The OLAP market
Barbara Dinter, Carsten Sapia, Gabriele Höfling, Markus Blaschka · 1998
The main idea of a data warehouse is to provide decision makers with integrated information that is organized according to their requirements.In recent years there was a rapid development of the market for data warehouse prot ducts and in particular for OLAP systems.me technical development in this area is strongly market driven.This paper presents the main results of a technical market survey on OLAP products.It describes the technological stat& qf the art of the products.By identifying the ma+ conceptual deficits of exist&g systems we derive interesting tdpics for further application oriented scientific research and show how exis*g research results can be applied.This analysis is performed separately for relational OLAP 4y4tems (ROLAP) and multidimensional OLAP systems (MOLAP). 1.1