- Industry: Software
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Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide.
The component of a database that controls all user and system activities related to the core functions of the database, such as security checking, tablespace allocation, and space management.
Industry:Software
Precalculated and prestored summary data that is held in tables in a data warehouse. Aggregated data provides direct access to calculated data that improves query performance. Functions used to calculate aggregated data include SUM, MAX, MIN, COUNT, and AVG. See also summary table.
Industry:Software
Software that allows a user to create and direct specific questions to a database.
Industry:Software
A remote data source that users can query/access via a central gateway that provides a logical view of corporate data in terms users can understand. The gateway parses and distributes queries in real time to remote data sources and returns result sets back to users.
Industry:Software
Software that employs mathematical algorithm(s) to analyze the data contained in a data warehouse. Data mining, OLAP, ROLAP, and other terms are used to designate tools with different functionality. In practice, however, a given analytical tool may provide more than one type of analysis procedure and may also encompass some middleware functionality.
Industry:Software
The process by which online analytical processing (OLAP) tools directly access data in a relational database.
Industry:Software
The act of using data and tools within an organization to support managerial decisions. Usually decision support involves the analysis of many units of data in a heuristic fashion.
Industry:Software
A component that typically executes in a Web browser but can execute in a variety of other applications or devices that support the applet programming model. An applet cannot run on its own but requires help from other software.
Industry:Software
The quality of having backup systems that take over operations in the event that the main system fails.
Industry:Software
A computer program that analyzes business data and presents it so that users can make business decisions more easily.
Industry:Software
