The Added Value of OLAP Preferences in What-If Applications

Mariana Carvalho, Orlando Belo

2019

Abstract

These days, enterprise managers involved with decision-making processes struggle with several problems related to market position or business reputation of their companies. Collecting data and retrieving high-quality set of information is one of the main priority tasks of enterprise managers involved in decision-making processes. To overcome the difficulties that may arise from market competitiveness and gain some kind of competitive advantage, it is important that these managers make the most of adequate tools in order to get the right set of highly refined information. What-If analysis can help managers getting the competitive advantage they need. It allows for simulating hypothetical scenarios and analyzing the consequences of specific changes without harming business activities. In this paper, we propose a hybridization methodology, which combines What-If analysis process with OLAP usage preferences, for optimizing decision processes. We present and discuss the integration of OLAP usage preferences in the conventional What-If analysis with a case example.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Carvalho M. and Belo O. (2019). The Added Value of OLAP Preferences in What-If Applications. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-382-7, SciTePress, pages 171-180. DOI: 10.5220/0008354301710180

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir19,
author={Mariana Carvalho and Orlando Belo},
title={The Added Value of OLAP Preferences in What-If Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2019},
pages={171-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008354301710180},
isbn={978-989-758-382-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - The Added Value of OLAP Preferences in What-If Applications
SN - 978-989-758-382-7
AU - Carvalho M.
AU - Belo O.
PY - 2019
SP - 171
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0008354301710180
PB - SciTePress