We developed a browser app written in PHP and MYSQL using the Smarty template. The data is similar to sales data and can be stored in a OLAP cube format.
Now we would like to offer inside the App a menu for certain users to analyze the sales data directly. A cube query would offer us the most information for the least effort of programming. So my questions are:
- Do we need to install another server to run cube queries?
- If yes, which one would you recommend and how can we migrate the data?
- How would the visualization in PHP work?
Since we have never implemented any OLAP cube we would be grateful for any kind of advice, literature on how to approach this project.