%0 Book Section %1 AbelloRomero09p1949 %A Abelló, Alberto %A Romero, Oscar %B Encyclopedia of Database Systems %C New York %D 2009 %E Liu, Ling %E Özsu, M. Tamer %I Springer %K 01821 springer paper enterprise database business data analysis system tool %P 1949--1954 %R 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_252 %T On-Line Analytical Processing %X On-line analytical processing (OLAP) describes an approach to decision support, which aims to extract knowledge from a data warehouse, or more specifically, from data marts. Its main idea is providing navigation through data to non-expert users, so that they are able to interactively generate ad hoc queries without the intervention of IT professionals. This name was introduced in contrast to on-line transactional processing (OLTP), so that it reflected the different requirements and characteristics between these classes of uses. The concept falls in the area of business intelligence.

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