FASMI

FASMI stands for Fast Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Information. The term FASMI was coined by Nigel Pendse of OLAP Report as an alternative definition for OLAP. Nigel felt that the 12 rules that Tedd Codd came up with to define the term OLAP were too controversial and biased (due to the fact that they were sponsored by Arbor, the company which developed Essbase). Also Nigel considered that 12 rules was too long, and good definition of OLAP could be done in only 5 rules.
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Fast Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Information

False Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Information

The term On-Line Analytic Processing refers to technology that allows users of multidimensional data bases to generate on-line descriptive or comparative summaries ("views") of data and other analytic queries.
For more information, see On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) ; see also, Data Warehousing and Data Mining techniques .