The aim of this paper is to present the principal characteristics, advantages and limitations of the new development approach of business decision making aid tools, based on Artificial Intelligence technology, and its main development tools: Expert Systems. For this purpose, in the first section...

The purpose of OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems is to provide a framework for the analysis of multidimensional data. Many tasks related to analysing multidimensional data and making business decisions are still carried out manually by analysts (e.g. financial analysts, accountants,...