Business intelligence is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today’s BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises’ ...

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them ...

Silicon Valley startup Kyvos Insights today emerged from stealth mode, trumpeting a new way for ordinary business users to conduct Big Data analytics. Adding a slight twist to the dozens of similar ...

Unlike the name implies, the cube represents data across some measure of interest. Even if it is called a “cube”, it can have 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, or even higher dimensions. With an OLAP cube, ...

Why Do We Need Olap Cube? For OLAP cubes to be truly effective, they must be able to deal with millions of records at the same time. OLAP cube queries can be done with plain English, in fact. Data ...

What good is big data if you don’t have the proper tools to make sense of it? A startup, Kyvos Insights, can transform terabytes of information stored on Hadoop clusters into easy-to-parse data cubes, ...

The popularity of Microsoft Excel has never waned. Today, a whopping 1.1 billion users globally rely on it for multidimensional analysis in areas such as "scenario planning, supply chain optimization, ...