We are a service company that designs and develops software in the field of management control and decision-making tools related to payroll and workforce management in large organizations. Our software suite is built on Oracle technology, leveraging Oracle’s OLAP option, which allows the description of multidimensional cubes and, more importantly, the ability to model extremely complex calculations.

This OLAP environment also includes a structured programming language called DML, which we use extensively. Our calculation models allow us to define a formula for each calculation item, and this formula is applied to all the cells of the cubes that use the item dimension in their structure.

Oracle has recently announced the discontinuation of the OLAP option, so we are now looking for an environment that offers modeling capabilities as powerful as what we previously had with Oracle OLAP.

BUT…we do not understand Oracle’s decision to discontinue the OLAP option. It provides an extraordinarily powerful environment for simulation and modeling.

We would like to know if other companies use OLAP daily in their software or in financial and management applications. We believe that together, we could try to speak with one voice to request the reintegration of this module in future Oracle versions.