With modern platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings in the cloud, companies are no longer constrained by storage or compute power when it comes to OLAP workloads. Companies can now gather, store and analyze data from more systems than ever before. Analytical solutions are now judged by how quickly they can be created, and how easily they can be maintained as they scale. As a result, companies are no longer only looking for simple data mart or data warehouse solutions.