ENTERPRISE REPORTING

CHARACTERISTICS IN OLAP
WORLD

Manpreet Kaur(Roll NO:- 17071212)

Introduction to OLAP
 OLAP is a system software used to combine data from
several IT applications and provide business users with
analyzed information to make informed business decisions.
 In OLAP data is held in the dimensional form rather than
relational form.
 While relational databases are considered to be two-
dimensional, OLAP data is multidimensional, meaning
information can be compared in many different ways.
 Thus, OLAP allows business users to easily and selectively
extract and view data from different point of views.
 The multidimensional data model views data in the form of
a data cube.
Enterprise Reporting Characteristics In
OLAP World
 Enterprise invest money and efforts to help decision
makers gain access to right information at the right
time on the right device. Some of the critical focus
areas of enterprise reporting are as follows:
 Single version of truth:-
The value of providing
the same “fact value” irrespective of the path the
user has taken to reach for the data is of
permanent importance in reporting.
 Role based delivery:-
This feature is critical to
avoid information overload.
 Anywhere/anytime/any-device access:-
Users have
their own preferences and therefore flexibility
needs to be built to ensure that user come to the
same source of information again and again and
don’t find alternative ways to decision making.
 Personalization:-
Users choices of delivery method ,
format like PDF/worksheet/CSV, book marking etc. will
need to be addressed.
 Security:-
enterprise have huge concern over the
unauthorized access to business –critical information,
hacking by malicious sources, inadvertent leakage of
business data, etc. The security framework needs to be
thoroughly examined before implementing reports.
 Alerts:-
Decision makers need immediate
notification of threshold breaches of critical business
KPIs. These alerts need to be delivered to various
devices such as laptop, mobile devices in different
forms like email, sound, voice message, SMS text
etc. depending on user preference.
 Reports repository:-
Many enterprises are
attempting to create secure report repositories that
service a wide range of users and have flexible
delivery/viewing options. Managing the content of
the repository itself is a task that needs specialized
competencies and tools.
References
 Book “Fundamentals of business analysis” BY R.N.
Prasad and Seema Acharya.