Intelligent Cubes

Intelligent Cubes are multi-dimensional cubes (sets of data) that allow you to use OLAP Services features on reports, as well as share sets of data among multiple reports. On MicroStrategy's business intelligence platform, you have two unique methods to implement Intelligent Cube Technology:

• Personal Intelligent Cubes: A personal Intelligent Cube is the Intelligent Cube functionality available in all pre-9.0 MicroStrategy releases. To use a personal Intelligent Cube, you can begin by creating reports in MicroStrategy as usual, and then analyze your reports with OLAP Services features such as view filters, derived metrics, and dynamic aggregation. These features are processed on the in-memory copy of data known as a personal Intelligent Cube, rather than being processed on the data warehouse.
• Intelligent Cubes: A shared Intelligent Cube (called an Intelligent Cube) is a set of data that can be shared as a single in-memory copy, among many different reports created by multiple users. Rather than returning data from the data warehouse for a single report, you can return sets of data from your data warehouse and save them directly to Intelligence Server memory. The reports accessing Intelligent Cubes can use all of the OLAP Services features for analysis and reporting purposes.

For information on Intelligent Cubes and the OLAP Services features they support, see the In-memory Analytics Help. For information on administering shared Intelligent Cubes, see the System Administration Help.