http://blog.srlanger.com/2007/02/12/the-power-of-excel-friendly-olap/ Just another Knowledge Worker Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:46:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://blog.srlanger.com/2007/02/12/the-power-of-excel-friendly-olap/#comment-372 Andreas Flockermann Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:11:54 +0000 http://srlanger.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/the-power-of-excel-friendly-olap/#comment-372 This is the old quarrel between MOLAP and AS cube supporters. To say MOLAP is faster than AS is not correct. It depends a lot of the type of application you build. When you build a big, attribute rich cube, based on a large data warehouse Analysis Services is much faster and scales much better than a MOLAP cube. For financial cubes, budgeting and consolidation applications where on-the-fly modeling and write back is essential MOLAP cubes are faster and provide the end user with more end user modeling features than the more IT-centered Analysis Services cube. Sometimes it makes even sense to combine both cubes. I have seen applications where TM1 cubes were uses for budgeting and Analysis Services cubes for reporting. This is the old quarrel between MOLAP and AS cube supporters. To say MOLAP is faster than AS is not correct. It depends a lot of the type of application you build. When you build a big, attribute rich cube, based on a large data warehouse Analysis Services is much faster and scales much better than a MOLAP cube. For financial cubes, budgeting and consolidation applications where on-the-fly modeling and write back is essential MOLAP cubes are faster and provide the end user with more end user modeling features than the more IT-centered Analysis Services cube. Sometimes it makes even sense to combine both cubes. I have seen applications where TM1 cubes were uses for budgeting and Analysis Services cubes for reporting.

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