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The one-stop, web-based OLAP information resource

Product Reviews

The OLAP Report On-Line has information on more than 30 OLAP products. There are more than 20 full reviews, sometimes covering multiple products from one vendor, including detailed score tables. Other products only merit shorter summary reviews which are expanded should the products achieve a market presence sufficient to justify the attention.

Reviews of this detail, on such a wide range of OLAP products, are simply not available anywhere else.

Product Reviews List
Product Vendor Description
Length
Aclue Decisionism Kana Version 3.01 of the OLAP cube factory, discontinued when Broadbase (now Kana) acquired the company 8112 words
Analysis TARGIT Summary review of version 2K1 of this easy-to-deploy Danish EIS 5416 words
AnswerSets Next Action Technology Summary review of version 5.0 of this innovative set-based data selection tool used for power-assisting relational and desktop OLAPs (now owned by Business Objects) 2958 words
AOS ACG Summary review of version 2.6 of this ActiveX Web client that works with Oracle Express and Microsoft Analysis Services 1786 words
BI/Analyze Hummingbird Communications Summary review of version 5.1 of this desktop OLAP (formerly called Andyne PaBLO 2903 words
Brio Enterprise Brio Technology Version 6.0 of this fast growing desktop OLAP 7771 words
Business Objects and Web Intelligence Business Objects BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 suite, plus information about the 15,708 words
CFO Vision SAS Institute Version 2.0 of this slow-selling financial reporting system; 8678 words
CLIME Cartesis Version 2.7 of the sophisticated financial reporting application from PwC, now transferred to Cartesis 6792 words
Crystal Analysis Professional, Reports and Holos Crystal Decisions Version 10 of Crystal Analysis and the OLAP features in Crystal Reports 16,997 words
DB2 OLAP Server IBM Version 1.1 of IBM's version of Essbase 5 7493 words
DI-Diver and DI-Atlantis Dimensional Insight The underrated products previously known as CrossTarget 5712 words
EAP OutlookSoft Version 3 of the new budgeting and Web reporting system built on SQL Server 2000 and Analysis Services 8356 words
e-Planning Adaytum Software Adaytum has abandoned its IPO to be acquired by Cognos 8122 words
Enterprise and Pillar Hyperion Solutions The two financial OLAP applications from the former Hyperion Software, now part of Hyperion Solutions 11,379 words
Essbase Hyperion Solutions Version 6.5 of leading MOLAP from the former Arbor Software 14,601 words
EUREKA:Strategy Computer Associates CA acquired and snuffed out this once-respected ROLAP from the former Information Advantage in April 2000 12,809 words
Executive Suite CIP-Global Version 2.1 of this fully integrated budgeting, financial reporting and statutory consolidation suite 7123 words
Executive Viewer Temtec 4.2 of this attractive, very interactive Essbase front-end which now also works with Analysis Services 9678 words
Express and the new Oracle9 iOLAP Oracle Version 6.4 of the oldest OLAP product line, now at the end of its development life, plus updated advance information on its successor, the new Oracle9 iR2 OLAP 17,956 words
Gentia Gentia Software Version 5.0 of this OLAP application building environment, now targeted on balanced scorecard applications 10,724 words
iTM1 Applix Version 8.3 of this underrated client/server OLAP, acquired by Applix in 1996, and subsequently renamed to iTM1 13,257 words
Khalix Longview Solutions Version 2.4 of this relatively unknown ROLAP consolidation system 4642 words
Magnitude Cartesis Version 7.4 of this integrated financial reporting, planning, consolidation and reporting system, now under Cartesis control 9121 words
Media Speedware Version 3 of Media, an early hybrid OLAP which made little market impact 2043 words
MetaCube Informix (IBM) Version 4 of the now discontinued ROLAP 6279 words
MicroStrategy 7i MicroStrategy Version 7i (7.2.2) of leading ROLAP suite 23,009 words
MPC Comshare Version 4.5 of this integrated budgeting, consolidation and financial reporting package, now with PDA support 12,811 words
NovaView e-BI Panorama Summary review of version 3.0 of the advanced Windows and Web client for Microsoft Analysis Services now rebranded and relaunched 7380 words
[former] OLAP@Work Business Objects Summary review of version 2.0 of the powerful client tools for Microsoft OLAP, now owned by Business Objects 4825 words
ProClarity ProClarity Version 5.2 of this popular front-end platform for Microsoft Analysis Services 9341 words
Pilot Decision Support Suite Pilot Software Version 6 of the venerable Pilot OLAP tools, now spun off from Accrue 6167 words
PowerPlay Cognos Series 7 of the most popular end-to-end OLAP 11,945 words
QueryObject QueryObject Systems Version 3.1 of this specialized compressed data mart system 4121 words
Sagent Sagent Technology Version 4.0 of this "data mart in a box" which includes both ETL and basic OLAP query capabilities 5647 words
ShowCase Strategy SPSS The AS/400 version of Essbase, acquired by SPSS in February 2001 2792 words
SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Microsoft The current release of Microsoft's mass market OLAP server 20,836 words
WhiteLight WhiteLight Systems Version 2.7 of this ROLAP server, now available as a back-end for leading BI client tools 7585 words
Wired for OLAP Hyperion Solutions Version 4.0 of this popular OLAP front-end, now renamed Hyperion Analyzer, which works with both Hyperion Essbase and Microsoft OLAP Services 6086 words

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