Interactive, Flexible, and Generic What-If Analyses Using In-Memory Column Stores

One well established method of measuring the success of companies are key performance indicators, whose inter-dependencies can be represented by mathematical models, such as value driver trees. While such models have commonly agreed semantics, they lack the right tool support for business simulations, because a flexible implementation that supports multi-dimensional and hierarchical structures on large data sets is complex and computationally challenging. However, in-memory column stores as the backbone of enterprise applications provide incredible performance that enables to calculate flexible simulation scenarios interactively even on large sets of enterprise data.