The End of Traditional OLAP? New Approach Spells Death for Physical Cubes

Several new data-management approaches are challenging the long-standing process of delivering Business Intelligence solutions via OLAP cubes built atop Data Warehouses. While the warehouse will surely never go away, and cubes certainly expedite queries, the shortcomings in time, collaboration and synchronicity associated with the traditional model have become downright burdensome in many cases.

One new approach for avoiding such bottlenecks uses a combination of in-memory power and Massive Parallel Processing (MPP). When implemented properly, this solution solves many of the limitations tied to the old model, including latency, inaccuracy and scalability.

View this Briefing Room Webinar to learn from veteran Analyst Robin Bloor, who explains how and why the world of information management is changing, then offer insights on what you can do. Bloor was briefed by John Coppins of Kognitio, who showcased the company’s latest offering Pablo, which creates a virtual marshalling area for metadata and super-charged “cubes” -- thus circumventing many of the issues that companies encounter with cube maintenance and proliferation. Furthermore, Pablo embraces Excel as the front-end, thus catering to many non-technical business users.