Patent ID: 6434544
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A stand-alone data aggregation server for use with any one of a plurality of different OLAP servers that each provide an application layer and presentation layer through which multiple users perform OLAP analyses via interaction with client machines operably coupled thereto, the data aggregation server comprising:an aggregation engine that is integrated with a multidimensional data store and an interface, the aggregation engine performing data aggregation operations on data loaded from, database and storing the resultant aggregated data in a multidimensional datastore; and the interface receiving requests communicated from any one of said plurality of differer; OLAP servers, accessing the aggregation engine to retrieve from the multidimensional datastore aggregated data pertaining to said requests, and communicating the aggregated data corresponding to said requests to said one OLAP server that communicated said requests.