Microsoft SSAS and Oracle

I have to build a data warehouse that brings about quick benefits realization. Though we are evaluating enterprise class EDW/ETL/BI tools and methodologies, we have an immediate need to deliver a simple data warehouse to the business. I am looking to utilizing what we already own in our environment - Oracle RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server etc. My current plan is to use Microsoft's SSAS [sql server 2008] to connect to a central data repository on an Oracle 11g database. The data source will be the Oracle database and I will use SSAS as the tool to build OLAP cubes. Is this a recommended approach? Has anybody done this?
Also, I would like to store the Cube and aggregations in one source - Oracle. I understand that ROLAP might be slow and have other disadvantages compared to a MOLAP or HOLAP, but at this time we do most of our application development with Oracle being our underlying data repository. I would like to utilize SSAS to quickly build a cube and then store the results in the Oracle database. What issues do you see with this approach? Also, are there any white papers or books on SSAS working with Oracle.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you!

The license of OLAP is 23k, which is just a little less expensive than SQL Server. If you can run your MSAS application in the same instance as the SQL app (therefore using the same SQL Server license), then you will not incur addtional license of the MSAS app. In practice, most MSAS apps end up on a different server. In that case, you're paying for the additional SQL Server license, the additional hardware, the windows license on that server and administrative overhead. Oracle OLAP is typically run in the same instance as relational Oracle apps, so you don't need a different server, you don't need Windows and it's managed by the same Oracle DBA. So, you have a strong chance that total cost of ownership is lower with Oracle OLAP. And, because Oracle OLAP is part of the Oracle instance, other features such as security, high availability and disaster recovery, grid computing, etc. are the same as with relational data types.

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