Data Manipulation using Cubes

Dear Experts
My question: are BI cubes all about quering and reports? can perform data manipulation process, e.g. payroll, to the cube OLAP database directly, something like stored procedures in ordinary relational databases?????
thanks in advance

Hi Khidir,
According to your description, you want to know if we can manipulation data in SQL Server Analysis Services database, right.
As Reeves said, SSAS provide Writeback feature which is used for budgeting, forecasting or any other scenario in which you need enter data into your structure. Please refer to the link below to wee how to enable/disable writeback feature for a cube.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178845.aspx
However, OLAP designed for storing and retrieving large amounts of data to be used for ad-hoc reporting and analytics. And helps users to make more informed business decisions by enabling them to analyze information accumulated during a company’s day to
day operations.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1313996
http://www.nenit.net/pages/ssas.aspx
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

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