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The multi-dimensional analysis feature of EDW is based on a mix of three ingredients:
The cube GUI element, that holds all information needed to build a multi-dimensional cube out of data in the data warehouse.
The SimpleCubeForm GUI handler, which provides a form with tools for interactive data analysis. Alternative forms, using different technologies, may exist (and probably will in the future).
The PivotCube engine, which implements the features wrapped by the two ingredients above. EDW may integrate different OLAP cube technologies in the future.
So, EDW wraps the PivotCube technology and lets you configure and customize it by means of a GUICatalog model element. The following sections explain how to create a cube element and add it to an EDW GUI model. Then we'll see how to work with the analysis form from an end user's point of view. If you need a kickstart on multi-dimensional analysis cubes (or OLAP cubes), you may wanto to google for it, or start here: