On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:06:14PM -0500, Selector, Lev Y ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I searched for OLAP on perl.com and CPAN (and "perl olap" on Google) - got > no entries. > Also there is nothing on data warehousing in the perl world. > > Am I missing something? > I thought Perl is supposed to be a "Practical Extraction and Reporting > Language" > > Today in corporate world people use all kinds of specialized software for > reporting. Here are some major players: Business Objects, Cognos, Actuate, > Brio Software, Crystal Decisions, MicroStrategy, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM. > > Some vendors have designed their own programming languages for this purpose. > For example, Microsoft Analysis Services (part of MS SQL server) is taking > the market recently. They have an elegant language (MDX) for > multi-dimensional queries - similar to SQL, but designed to handle > multidimensional objects - see the book "Microsoft Olap Solutions" (actually > Microsoft bought a bunch of Israeli Jews with their development on that). > > I thought it would be nice to be able to do OLAP (multi-dimensional and > hierarchical reporting) in Perl. > Do you know of any development in this direction?
I don't know of any work going on in this specific area, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could put something together out of already existing components from CPAN. Could you tell me a bit more about what you'd like to be able to do. I'm very interested in this idea. Dave... -- Don't dream it... be it
