The MDDB Report Viewer
enables users to generate and view reports and graphs of data that
are stored in a multidimensional database (MDDB) without running a
SAS session.
An MDDB is a specialized
data storage facility that stores summarized data for fast and easy
access. Users can quickly view large amounts of data as a value at
any cross-section of business dimensions. A business dimension can
be any vision of the data that makes sense, such as time, geography,
or product. Users create and update multidimensional databases using
SAS/EIS software or the MDDB procedure when the SAS OLAP Server has
been licensed.
The MDDB Report Viewer
enables users who do not have access to SAS software (or who do not
want to invoke SAS software) to view the data in an MDDB. This capability
eliminates the need to have SAS software running on all users' machines
and provides access to the MDDB reports and graphs in a Web environment.
Note: The SAS OLAP Server, available
in SAS 9.1 and later, enables users to develop advanced SAS Business
Intelligence applications using all of our new software, including
SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Enterprise
Guide. If you are developing new OLAP applications, then consider
using this new technology rather than the MDDB Report Viewer.