IBM DB2 OLAP Server Miner (OLAP Miner) is a feature of IBM DB2 OLAP Server. To find deviant values in a multidimensional database (called a cube in this book), OLAP Miner uses the loaded and calculated data that is created with DB2 OLAP Server. OLAP Miner provides a graphical interface to help you create deviation detection definitions and display the results of these definitions. This book provides detailed information about using and configuring OLAP Miner.
To use OLAP Miner you should have some familiarity with DB2 OLAP Server and its functions. To create useful analyses with OLAP Miner, you should understand how to create and manipulate OLAP cubes.
This book provides detailed information about how OLAP Miner finds deviations in OLAP cubes. However, you do not need to understand these details to use OLAP Miner effectively. If you want to start creating deviation detection definitions to find deviations in your data, see Before you create deviation detection definitions and the OLAP Miner online help.
You can also learn how to use OLAP Miner by using the OLAP Miner tutorial. See Tutorial: finding deviant values in a subcube.
For more information about detecting deviations, see the article "A method for determination of an exception in multi-dimensional data" at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2olap/.