- Industry: Software
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Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide.
A statistical mechanism that analyzes where and how to retrieve data from the Oracle7 and Oracle8 servers to ensure fast access to data.
Industry:Software
An entity that purchases products from another entity, adds software, services, or special hardware components, and then sells the package.
Industry:Software
A loosely defined set of principles that provide a dimensional framework for decision support. OLAP allows for analysis of data to reveal business trends and statistics that are not immediately visible in operational data. Also known as multidimensional analysis.
Industry:Software
A layout of multidimensional data in rows, columns, and pages. In data warehousing, a crosstab can be used to display summary information and show how data varies across dimensions, such as sales by region by month. A crosstab is sometimes called a matrix. See also rotate.
Industry:Software
A type of database object that stores data and that can be either single-celled or dimensioned. (A dimensioned variable is an array whose cells are individual data values.) See also array, cell, dimension, dimension value, and object.
Industry:Software
The process whereby day-to-day transactional data is held in a repository that contains the operational data for the business.
Industry:Software
A logical organization of multidimensional data. The edges of the cube contain dimension members, and the body of the cube contains measure values. For example, sales data can be organized into a cube whose edges contain values from the time, product, and customer dimensions and whose body contains values from the volume sales and dollar sales measures.
Industry:Software
The ability of a single definition to maintain information about multiple physical instantiations.
Industry:Software
A specification that allows GUI programming languages to talk to SQL databases.
Industry:Software
The set of processes and supporting software that allows an organization to collect and leverage information on customer interactions with sales, marketing, and customer service departments.
Industry:Software
