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OLAP Primer

7th February 2007, 04:30 pm by Dick Kusleika

Charley Kyd wrote a nice OLAP primer entitled Don’t Discard Those Spreadsheets: The Power of Excel-Friendly OLAP. I haven’t done much work with OLAPs, so it’s nice to have it laid out in simple terms.

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6 Comments

  1. ross:

    Ditto, I will be reading that for sure!

    8 February 2007, 3:32 pm

  2. John Walkenbach:

    Dick, please prepare a 5-minute summary presentation on that OLAP thing, and deliver it in the bar at the upcoming Summit. The one that has OLAP-dancing.

    8 February 2007, 6:19 pm

  3. Rich Shields:

    Charley is very helpful. I took his teleconference seminar a year ago - excellent. That changed my situation at work (Fortune 50 company) to where I often now teach Excel setup for working from mainframes and automating weekly updates in Excel with minimal effort. Great stuff.

    I am now trying to determine how to get his OLAP approach introduced to the company.

    9 February 2007, 7:28 pm

  4. The power of Excel-friendly OLAP « Stéphane-Robert Langer:

    […] The power of Excel-friendly OLAP Dick Kusleika pointed a few days ago to a paper by Charley Kyd. In it, Charley gives a convincing overview of the possibilities revealed by OLAP-powered Excel solutions. Speaking from experience, I can only attest to the amazing things this combination allows you to achieve. […]

    12 February 2007, 6:47 am

  5. Ross:

    This is also a good resoucre - and intresting product!
    http://www.palo.net/index2.php?show=1

    13 February 2007, 4:29 am

  6. Steve Hansen:

    Great catch Dick. Thanks for pointing this out!

    14 February 2007, 4:17 pm

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