OLAP Data Source Support

Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP) Data Sources

XtraPivotGrid fully supports Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP) data sources. 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 recalculate data. It is much faster to request server-side data recalculation and then simply display the downloaded result.

Multiple Data Providers Support

XtraPivotGrid 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.

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Support

If an OLAP cube contains KPI (key performance indicator) information, XtraPivotGrid can automatically recognize it and display it in an appropriate format.

Localization Support

If a bound cube has multiple localized versions, XtraPivotGrid automatically fetches a version appropriate for the current client culture. If this automatic localization option does not meet your requirements, you can control the localization process manually.