Chapters: Essbase, Online Analytical Processing, Microstrategy, Olap Cube, Comparison of Olap Servers, Microsoft Analysis Services, Multidimensional Expressions, Holos, Rolap, Sap Netweaver Business Intelligence, Palo, Panorama Software, Xml for Analysis, Dimensional Insight, Molap, Applix, Tm1, Crystal Analysis, Oracle Olap, Rtolap, Ole Db for Olap, Thomsen Diagrams, Mondrian Olap Server, Holap, Sap Bi Accelerator, Proclarity, Fasmi, Businessobjects Olap Intelligence. Excerpt: Applix Inc. was a software company founded in 1983 based in Westborough, Massachusetts that published Applix TM1 , a MOLAP database server, and related presentation tools, including Applix Web and Applix Executive Viewer. Together, Applix TM1, Applix Web and Applix Executive Viewer were the three core components of the Applix Business Analytics Platform . Applix did business in over 50 countries with over 3,000 customers worldwide. On October 25, 2007, Applix was acquired by Cognos . Cognos rebranded all Applix products under its name following the acquisition. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was itself acquired by IBM . Prior to OLAP industry consolidation in 2007, Applix was the purest OLAP vendor among publicly traded independent BI vendors, and had the greatest growth rate. TM1 is now marketed as IBM Cognos TM1 and the latest version, IBM Cognos TM1 9.5, became publicly available on February 9, 2010. Products and technology Main article: TM1 IBM Cognos TM1 (formerly Applix TM1) is enterprise planning software used to implement collaborative planning, budgeting and forecasting solutions, as well as analytical and reporting applications. Data in IBM Cognos TM1 is stored and represented as multidimensional cubes, with data being stored at the "leaf" level. Computations on the leaf data are performed in real-time (for...