Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of Online analytical processing (OLAP) servers. Please see the individual products articles for further information. In computing, online analytical processing, or OLAP (pronounced /'o laep/) is an approach to swiftly answer multi-dimensional analytical queries. OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational reporting and data mining. Typical applications of OLAP include business reporting for sales, marketing, management reporting, business process management (BPM), budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting and similar areas, with new applications coming up, such as agriculture .

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