Small data mart tools question

sorry that I'm rather new to data olap!
we have a small operational system that creates approximately 120K records a year in a single table with a couple of two level lookup tables. the time component is stored with the measure which is already aggregated to the desired "day" granularity.
CategoryLevel1 --> CategoryLevel2 --> Measure with date <-- LocationLevel1 <-- LocationLevel2
we want to target a "lightweight" BI design using Pentaho, Mondrian and Saiku against an Oracle database. if we need another schema then its ok to have that in the same database.
we are considering simply using materialized views as fact and dimension tables for ETL as described here:
http://ww1.ucmss.com/books/LFS/CSREA2006/IKE4645.pdf
is this a common approach? are there any drawbacks that are of significance for our effort?
appreciate any insight you can provide.

I am not sure if this will help you, but there is a nice white paper on how the Oracle database OLAP option can be used at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/olap/oracle-olap-11gr2-twp-132055.pdf.
Other OLAP collateral can be found at Oracle OLAP.
--Ken Chin

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