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Technology Stocks : Applix is back in action -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (2622)	3/6/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: umbro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

On the Yahoo! boards, there was a lot of talk about TM1, as the premier product for Applix, and that it is strong in the OLAP area. Not familiar with the term, I did a little research, and found the following definition: webopedia.internet.com 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. 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. The Webopedia is a nice resource, and the URL above has several links that describe OLAP in its various forms in much more detail.