OLAP Data Source Support

Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP) Data Sources

Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP) data sources are now fully supported by the DXPivotGrid. If bound to such a data source, a pivot grid control delegates all data management and calculations to the server side.

This feature greatly increases your application's performance if you are dealing with a large dataset. In this case, it may take a long time for a client machine to reclaculate data. It is much faster to request server-side data recalculation and then simply display the downloaded result.

Multiple Data Providers Support

DXPivotGrid can use one of the following data providers to communicate with the Microsoft Analysis Services server.

• OLE DB for OLAP
  A known and trusted data provider. Allows you to connect to an OLAP server with minimum effort.
• ADOMD.NET
  Offers certain performance gains when compared to OLE DB, and yet allows you to retrieve OLAP member format strings and properties from the server.
• XMLA
  An open XML-based standard that does not require any data access libraries or data providers to be installed on the client system. Nevertheless, it supports all OLAP features available in OLE DB and ADOMD.NET.