Vector Space Inc.

Following our [post](http://www.vectorspace.com/2006/07/25/palo-olap-review) on the new PALO open source package, Jedox president Kristian Raue agreed to answer a few questions about the company’s plans for the product.

### How is PALO planning to relate to the broader world of spreadsheet OLAP?
By July 2006 more than 10,000 people had downloaded Palo and we have 50 new downloads each day. So I think we have already had a large impact in the spreadsheet OLAP market. Read the rest of this entry »

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Every now and then we see a request for the OLAP Council benchmark, last updated in 1998; since nobody else seems to have all the materials in one place, we have decided to put them here as a service.

• The specification can be downloaded here.
• The data generation program is here.

While it may be somewhat dated now, this is still the only such benchmark there has been. Our friends Erik Thomson and George Spofford of DSS Labs produced it for the OLAP Council, which was Read the rest of this entry »

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