Cognos announced Distributed Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) as the architecture to deploy multidimensional analysis capabilities. OLAP lets users analyze shared corporate data organized multidimensionally, in contrast to the two dimensions of simple spreadsheets, according to the company.
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