Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

Introduction

Analysis Services began as the project of a small Israeli firm named Panorama, which

had responded to a request from a British publishing company to develop an application

that would analyze the data stored in its relational database. By the end of 1994,

Panorama developers began work on a more general application that would make it possi-

ble for business managers to analyze data with relative ease.

With its first release in 1995, Panorama deployed the application to several dozen

customers. As the next release moved the application more deeply into the Israeli market,

the Panorama team began to develop a new client/server analytical application. The

server would process the data and store it in a proprietary format, and the client would ...