Rather than presenting your data as tables, OLAP presents your data as multidimensional cubes. Excel-friendly OLAP products support worksheet functions that allow you to read data from—and WRITE data to—cubes in memory that are saved on a server.
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
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