Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider enables organizations and developers to easily create and build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions (OLAP). Also, it comes with data mining functionality which can be used when designing BI applications (a short term that stands for Business Intelligence).

It provides you with a secure and reliable interface from where you can let applications to interact with Microsoft Analysis Services and make use of various methods for offline and online data mining analysis. Simply connect to an OLAP cube or data mining model, then retrieve schema information.

In this manner, corporations can easily design, create and manage multidimensional structures such as relational databases, as well as visualize data mining models effortlessly. This way, you can rely on the program’s performance and build a single model for BI apps, providing users a consistent view of their data.

As such, BI developers are empowered with rich-modelling capabilities and fine grained security, thus interacting with a great amount of data and building a range of useful and intuitive solutions, regardless of their complexity.

Having a connection to Analysis Server, you are able to create dimensions and measure groups to build and modify OLAP cubes, manage role-based security, as well as deploy and maintain a database in a secure environment.

As a standalone provider, the Analysis Services OLE DB Provider integrates seamlessly within SQL Server and enables you to create and analyze MDX (Multidimensional Expressions) queries. In this manner, you can manipulate all the data stored in OLAP cubes.

To wrap it up, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider aims to scale BI applications by delivering insights across the enterprise through close integration with SQL Server, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Visual Studio.