The OLAP Council has been adding new members in dribs and drabs since its inception at the beginning of last year and last month landed the big one, signing Oracle Corp as a general member. Formed by four on-line analytical processing software tool suppliers, Arbor Software Corp, Comshare Inc, IRI Software Inc and Pilot Software Corp, the OLAP Council now counts eight firms on its roster, including Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Platinum Technology Inc; Planning Sciences Ltd, London; Holistic Systems Ltd, London; Cognos Inc, Ottawa plus four associate members: KPMG Peat Marwick LLP; Kenan Technologies Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Sinper Corp, Warren, New Jersey and Speedware Corp of Montreal, Quebec. Oracle will participate in the Council’s specifications for its application programming interface for accessing multidimensional data.
