More details in a new White Paper (Plant Perfomance Predictive Analytics) in the Downloads page.

OLAP stands for On-Line Analytical Processing and the more common term for this is "Cubes". From this structure, one can "slice and dice" the data to present information in a multi-dimensional format. For example, if you want to see the efficiencies for various equipment, then you can use the dimensions of time (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), the process or plant area, type of unit operation, etc.
Historians are the source of this information that will typically provide such data including averages and aggregated data. Historians though provide time stamped data in flat files, and the data needs to be extracted, transformed and loaded into these cubes. The data can be then viewed accordingly.
This data can be also combined with data from other sources to provide a true holistic and integrated view related to business, operations, maintenance, process control etc.

It is now time for "real time" Business Intelligence and Decision Support. 
Thanks to smart phones and agile suppliers of Mobile Business Intelligence software, Mobile Decision Support is becoming part of the daily life for decision makers. 
Mission critical business will lead the pack moving into Mobile Decision Support by taking care of security issues and posting KPIs and Dashboards to the top managers. Mobile Business Intelligence is here to stay and the Process Industries will not stay still. It is only a matter of time that use of plant production alerts and dashboards will spread widely and be available to executive management and other production plant managers instantly, even while they are enjoying their flight going to some important meeting or while on vacation.
Chevron, a pioneer in advancements for process improvement, has been using mobile information in their plants, and companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell will be the first to get plant info out of the plant and to their managers and leaders through Mobile Decision Support Systems. 


Contact us for more information regarding Mobile Decision Support.

Locii Solutions specialises in the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions under the name locii InSight. Using in-house techniques, Locii Solutions has developed a new methodology that dramatically accelerates and simplifies the creation of data warehouses and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) software.Under the three - way agreement, DeLevant Business Solutions, developer of value - added applications with locii InSight, and ziconNET will jointly promote planning and forecasting solutions that can be easily deployed across all process industries.Furthermore, with locii-InSight as a platform, integration of data from Level 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0 is now possible in a cost effective way, which can then provide production plants with true intelligence for pro-active decision making.