Corporations can no longer survive on traditional transaction data-based reports.
Delivering more streamlined solutions that in turn result in lower maintenance cost and quicker deployment time, since we won't have to spend valuable time and resources ensuring the tools work together. Interoperability standards are a requirement for the real potential of Business Intelligence solutions to be realized. Currently, the OLAP chapter of the Benchmark SIG is working to define a set of specific OLAP benchmarks that will allow end users to judge how well various OLAP products handle large amounts of data, how well they support large numbers of users and how well the applications themselves can be maintained. Currently the SIG is working to define a working paper for an integrated approach to OLAP, data mining and visualization. This would include text analysis and other knowledge management applications, decision analysis and non-numeric pattern recognition.