- Palo (OLAP database)
Palo is a memory resident multidimensional (
OLAP orMOLAP )database server. This type ofdatabase is suitable to handle complex data models for business management and statistics. Apart from multidimensional queries, data can also be written back and consolidated real-time. In order to give rapid access to all data, Palo stores them in the memory during run time. The server isOpen Source . There is a free Add-In forMicrosoft Excel , with an open source Add-In forOpenOffice.org : [http://sourceforge.net/projects/palooca/ PalOOCa OpenOffice - Extension for Palo] . Palo can also be integrated into other systems via its Java,PHP , C and.NET interfaces.Palo is typically used as a
Business Intelligence tool forControlling andBudgeting purposes with aSpreadsheet used as a user interface. Beyond the multidimensional data concept, Palo enables multiple users to share one centralised data storage ("Single version of the truth ").Palo is being developed by Jedox, a company based in
Freiburg (Germany).References
* Bernd Held, Hartmut Erb: "Advanced Controlling mit Excel. Unternehmenssteuerung mit OLAP und PALO, m. CD-ROM.", Franzis, Poing 2006, ISBN 978-3-7723-7585-9 (in German)
* [http://www.jedox.com/en/enterprise-spreadsheet-server/excel-olap-server/palo-server.html Evaluation Guide] - Documentation to Palo (pdf) in the download section of the website
* [http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/08/03/raue_interview Interview with Kristian Raue] - CEO of Jedox about Palo
* [http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,88349,00.html Business Intelligence: One Version of the Truth] "ComputerWorld", Julia King, 2003-12-22
* [http://www.exceluser.com/enterprise/enterprisexl.htm Announcing Enterprise Excel] "Exceluser.com", Charley Kyd, Dec 2006
* [http://www.b-eye-network.co.uk/view-articles/6759 "b-eye network" article] - Open Source OLAP in the Retail Environment. John Hobson, Feb 2008External links
* [http://www.palo.net Palo] - Open-Source MOLAP Server for Windows/Linux and Microsoft Excel interface, documentation, demos and forum
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/palooca PalOOCa on sourceforge.net] - OpenOffice.org Calc version of Palo client
* [http://www.jpalo.net JPalo] - Java software for Palo
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/palo Palo on sourceforge.net] - Source Code of Palo
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