In addition
to ADO MD, applications gain access to SAS OLAP cubes through OLE
DB for OLAP (ODBO), an industry-standard set of programmable Component
Object Model (COM) interfaces that expose multidimensional data. For
SAS OLAP cubes, the OLE DB interfaces are exposed by the SAS OLAP
Data Provider, a component of SAS Integration Technologies. The SAS
OLAP Data Provider enables applications to perform data analysis by
providing a means to view schema information, submit MDX queries,
and retrieve results. The SAS OLAP Data Provider is installed with
the SAS Integration Technologies Client for Windows. See the
SAS Providers for OLE DB: Cookbook for more information about IOM data provider usage.