• Yes, I see they seem to offer the factory.

    From what I understand so far, MySQL is the relational/dimensional store for Mondrian, and there are a bunch of add ons from etl to reports.

    http://www.pentaho.com/product/product-overview

    Another branch I have become aware of is called icCube

    http://www.iccube.com/edition-comparison/

    I was surprised that (I might be wrong here...just reading still) although you can execute MDX, it has to be wrapped in java, kind of like a prepared sql statement for a front end. but its java only, no power shell or C#. (nor does there seem to be a way to do tabular and DAX BUT M$)

    I am not sure this is going to be worth the effort, but wont know until I spend a little more time figuring it out...my instinct is that it is important to know because of its ubiquity and applicability to 'sub enterprise scale' implementations...the advertising and promotion and feature development is always testing the envelope, but I don't work on the edge 🙂