Patent ID: 7447718

Claim:
A system comprising: a first client; an analysis server incorporating an OLAP cube coupled to the first client; a first customer database of information coupled to the analysis server, the first customer database is to embody forecast data and to receive essentially real-time updates to the forecast data, the forecast data including at least one estimated future value, the OLAP cube to analyze and update the information of the first customer database, and the OLAP cube including a main partition and a change partition, changes of the database being incorporated into the change partition; new data of the database is entered with a change state flag when such new data is submited, the change state flag indicating a change state of the data wherein a first change state identifies that the data has changed and has been moved from the change partition to the main partition, and a second change state identifies that the data has changed and has not be moved from the change partition to the main partition; and the change partition is aggregated by the OLAP cube on a first predetermined time interval, the aggregating of the change partition does not include aggregating entries of the change partition into the main partition.