Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aleksandar Juric

Akshai Mirchandani

Matthew Carroll

Thierry D'Hers

Adrian Dumitrascu

Robert B Zare

Maria Potapova

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing a visual representation of OLAP attributes and relationships for a dimension. A visual representation is generated that contains an arrangement of shapes with connections between shapes. One or more sub-elements are contained within at least some of the shapes. Connections between the shapes represent relationships between attributes in an OLAP dimension. The containment of a respective sub-element within a respective shape represents a relationship between an attribute being represented by the respective sub-element and an attribute being represented by the respective shape. Shapes representing OLAP attributes and relationships can be programmatically grouped and ungrouped. When an attribute does not have any outgoing relationships, when an attribute only has one incoming relationship, and when the attribute is not a level in a user-defined hierarchy, a grouping process is performed to put the attribute in an expandable shape belonging to another attribute.

Visual system for visualizing, navigating, and editing attribute lattices within OLAP databases

A calendar customization system comprises an interface component that receives responses to one or more questions relating to a calendar. A execution automatically generates a multi-dimensional structure for the calendar, the structure generated as a function of the responses. For example, the multi-dimensional structure can relate to a Gregorian calendar, a fiscal calendar, a reporting calendar, a manufacturing calendar, and/or an ISO8601 calendar.

System that facilitates maintaining business calendars

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Aleksandar Juric