The OLAP Survey 6

Essential reading for anyone with an interest in OLAP The OLAP Survey 6 is the definitive source of customer intelligence. The fifth edition of the most detailed examination of the rapidly growing On-line Analytic Processing (OLAP) market provides an independent and unbiased account of the market's verdict on vendors, products, and corporate project success rates. Changing market trends In addition to the fully updated and extended rich set of analyses established in the previous surveys, The OLAP Survey 6 includes an all-new set of analyses of age profiles. This allows insightful comparisons of recent and older purchases and reveals a rapidly changing product mix. The Sixth Edition Now with six years of data, it was also possible to analyze more trend information, and we also extended some of the analyses from previous editions. The result is that this year’s Survey is even larger and more detailed than ever. Anyone involved with this market, whether as a buyer, vendor, consultant or investor, will find it an incomparable and invaluable resource. Here are the statistics: Edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Growth in 2006 Date published July 2001 October 2002 November 2003 November 2004 November 2005 November 2006 Total pages 143 225 282 325 365 381 +4% Editorial pages 109 192 248 288 323 342 +6% Total words 32,125 52,257 66,374 74,139 81,333 83,950 +3% Tables 36 56 62 69 72 78 +8% Charts 40 79 113 131 150 157 +5% Don't think of buying an OLAP tool without using The OLAP Survey 6. The OLAP Survey helps organizations answer a number of relevant questions, based not on opinion, but on the real-world experiences of hundreds of organizations like yours: What business benefits does BI really bring? Which applications are becoming more popular? Why do organizations buy particular products? Is there a better way of selecting products? Is it worth conducting formal multi-product competitive evaluations? Is the shelfware problem getting worse? Which products and implementers deliver the most business benefits? What is the typical ratio of consulting to license fees for major products? Which other factors have the greatest impact on the business benefits? How long do projects take to roll out and does it vary by product? Does implementation time affect project success? What problems occur, and what are the trends? What are the main barriers to wider deployment? Which products deliver the fastest performance? What are the typical license and implementation fees for each product? Do big customers get better product support? Are more BI applications being deployed on extranets? Are technology forecasts accurate? How loyal are customers to particular products and vendors?   A sample of the numerous specially generated tables and charts from The Survey 6.		OLAP Survey 6 Contents: Introduction The sample Products included Profiles Customer Success The Purchase Cycle Vendor Scorecard Implementation Timescales What goes wrong? Applications OLAP and the web Server platforms Source databases Data volumes Performance at the speed of thought? Appendix: Survey questionnaire VIEW THE FULL CONTENTS Ask a question about this product? Other customers also purchased: OLAP Report Subscription Email a colleague about The OLAP Survey 6

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