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How to Directly Query Large Datasets with Excel

What's this blog post about?

Cube Cloud's MDX API is a strategic enhancement designed for enterprise customers, enabling direct connections from Excel to Cube Cloud using MDX queries. This integration allows users with Excel skills to perform sophisticated data analysis in a familiar environment and visualize data in pivot tables. The native MDX API enhances the universal semantic layer by enabling seamless integration with Excel's analytical tools, allowing users to leverage Excel's powerful data analysis features while maintaining a connection to Cube’s robust data infrastructure. With this feature, analysts can directly query large datasets through the universal semantic layer, eliminating the need for pre-processing and ensuring real-time data access. The MDX API in Cube Cloud unlocks advanced analytical capabilities, empowering users to perform more sophisticated and meaningful data analysis.

Company
Cube

Date published
July 9, 2024

Author(s)
Mikhail Nitsenko

Word count
1247

Language
English

Hacker News points
2


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