QlikTech has an interesting approach to dashboarding. It's in Version 7 and has the typical features: alerts, support for HTML, and so on). But it's the approach to OLAP ... or it's non-approach to OLAP ... that intrigues me. You see, QlikView runs in memory and not on OLAP. And it can be used with operational data without the need for pre-aggregation ... something BI tools usually require. So it parses the input data and extracts metadata that describes relationships between those various data elements. The bottom line is that performance is better; you don't have pre-defined dimensions or hierarchies; you don't have to ask IT to rebuild your OLAP cube when you want to run a query that requires a design change; and you can perform drill-downs in a way that would be otherwise too "expensive" in processing terms. Obviously, it means that you gotta have a lot of memory, but that's pretty cheap these days.
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