Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a simple type of data aggregation tools which is commonly used.
Thomas Davenport argues that business intelligence should be divided into querying, reporting, OLAP, an "alerts" tool, and business analytics.
The company's structure reflected its heritage, with OLAP technologies being developed out of the former Holistic Systems R&D site in Ipswich, Suffolk, England and Relational Database technologies being developed out of the former Crystal Services R&D centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The term was coined by Nigel Pendse of The OLAP Report (now known as The BI Verdict), because he felt that the 12 rules that Tedd Codd used to define OLAP were too controversial and biased.
The Oracle database tablespace CWMLITE stores OLAPSYS schema objects and integrates Oracle Database OLAP Option with the Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB).
OLAP (Parish Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation - Diocesan Shrine of the Incarnation) belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novaliches and is at the border between the Diocese of Novaliches and the Diocese of Cubao.