Standard Reports Olap Online Analytical Processing Data Mining Generate Insights Crm Users Q34233626

How standard reports, OLAP (Online analytical processing) anddata mining generate insights for CRM users

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Ans: Data warehouses support multidimensional data analysis,also known as online analytical processing (OLAP), which enablesusers to view the same data in different ways using multipledimensions. Each aspect of information represents a differentdimension. OLAP represents relationships among data as amultidimensional structure, which can be visualized as cubes ofdata and cubes within cubes of data, enabling more sophisticateddata analysis. OLAP enables users to obtain online answers to adhoc questions in a fairly rapid amount of time, even when the dataare stored in very large databases. Online analytical