September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
The same Silicon Valley computer company also implemented some of the same data in a more complex Analysis Services OLAP cube for data mining purposes. The company had many things it did not know about its sales data and wanted to do complex trending and forecasting to better understand the demand for products worldwide. Figure 3.5 shows the OLAP cube built in Analysis Services for this complex business intelligence purpose. Several demand forecasting and product sales trending models were developed to allow this company to predict sales by each of its products for each geographic region.
Figure 3.5 Multidimensional OLAP cube in Analysis Services.
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