Analytics builds on the core capabilities of the MDEX Engine to enable applications that examine aggregate information such as trends, statistics, analytical visualizations, comparisons, and so on, all within the Guided Navigation interface.
This guide describes the key extensions to the MDEX Engine associated with Analytics:
Analytics API A cornerstone feature of Analytics, the Analytics API extends the Presentation API to enable interactive applications that allow users to explore aggregate and statistical views of large databases using a Guided Navigation interface.
Charting API These extensions to the Presentation API support graphical visualizations of Analytics results.
Date and time data Additional data types now supported by the MDEX Engine enable applications to work with temporal data, performing time-based sorting, filtering, and analysis.
Key properties Support for property- and dimension-level metadata allows customized application behavior such as automatic presentation of analytic measures and UI-level presentation of meta-information such as units, definitions, and data sources.
