This book covers all development aspects of Corporate Data Analysis Systems (CDAS) based on data warehousing technology and OLAP. It covers everything from preparing commercial proposals, structuring the project, and developing the concept of the system to implementing the system. The authors give a comprehensive description of OLAP and data warehousing technology, provide practical ways to create, load, and administer multidi-mensional databases, and include a technique for developing end user OLAP applications. Considerable attention is also devoted to expanding corporate data analysis systems to the World Wide Web in Intranet/Internet networks.
