OLAP Server administration

Single point administrative console

An ideal OLAP solution will be providing a single point console from where one can manage performance, scheduling, meta data, logging, user administration etc.

Web based tools

To enable flexible and remote management, a web-based access can be helpful, especially when the administrative access is given to administrators dispersed far & wide.

Graphical & Visual Administration Console

The administration ease can be managed by providing graphical click & drag features.

Administrative reports

An OLAP tool can provide easy to read administrative reports. These reports are must for hardcopy & control sign-offs.

Administrative roles

This feature deals in on how granular can the allocation of administrative roles be. For example one can divide the responsibilities in for creating user roles vs. creating user Ids.

3rd party consoles

Good part of Administration is computing and network resources management. An OLAP administration console can also integrate with standard 3rd party consoles For example HP Open-View, IBM Tivoli, CA UniCenter and BMC Patrol