Chapter 30. Retrieving Data from OLAP Servers
by Timothy Dyck and John Shumate
timothy_dyck@dyck.org, jcshumate@starpower.net
In this chapter
What Is OLAP?
Excel 2003’s On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) features enable you to quickly sift through large amounts of information to get the answers you need to solve business problems and make well-informed decisions. OLAP (pronounced (OH-lap) techniques are especially suited to help you see long-term trends and discover hidden relationships and causal factors in business performance. ...
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