Some Aspects of Multidimensional Data Modelling and OLAP

Alex Russakovskii
Hyperion

Abstract

We will discuss some of the problems that the OLAP providers are facing. In particular this involves data and metadata modelling issues, sparsity issues, formula dependency analysis, appropriate index structures, etc. The purpose of the talk is to identify currently unresolved problems and discuss their possible solutions.

Biography

Alex Russakovskii is a principal software engineer at the Essbase OLAP server department of Hyperion Solutions Corporation. He has PhD in mathematics (multidimensional complex analysis). He has been pursuing a scientific career simultaneously with work in software development. He is the author of about 25 research papers in interpolation, approximation, complex dynamics and has done some work on software architecture, numerical methods and financial models. About two years ago he joined the Essbase department where he has been involved in the mathematical and modelling aspects of OLAP.