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OLAP Last modified: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Short for Online Analytical Processing, a category of software tools that provides analysis of data stored in a database. OLAP tools enable users to analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data. For example, it provides time series and trend analysis views. OLAP often is used in data mining. The chief component of OLAP is the OLAP server, which sits between a client and a database management systems (DBMS). The OLAP server understands how data is organized in the database and has special functions for analyzing the data. There are OLAP servers available for nearly all the major database systems.
Alta Plana's OLAP Page Offers links to OLAP related Web sites, documentation and resources, corporate pages, and consultants. OLAP glossary Offers OLAP and OLAP server term definitions. OLAP on the Web This Internet Systems article, from January 1997, describes the trend to enable OLAP tools to work with Web browsers and servers.	Related Categories Business Tools Databases Related Terms data mining database database management system decision support system drill down multidimensional DBMS OLTP