SMAQ - A Semantic Model for Analytical Queries

Abstract

While the Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) becomes an important part of organizational BI solutions there is a great need for new tools allowing to construct ad-hoc queries by users with various responsibilities and skills. The paper presents a Semantic Model for Analytical Queries - SMAQ allowing to construct queries by users familiar with business events and terms, but being unaware of database or data warehouse concepts and query languages such as MDX or SQL. The key idea of SMAQ is to provide a reference model that allows building user interfaces, even those based on natural language, independently on data models and query languages. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.