Your ultimate goal is to create a OLAP metaoutline that includes measures in the Central States region, and excludes the other regions. From that metaoutline you will create an OLAP application that you can use to examine how sales data from the Central States changed during 1996.
The first step in creating an OLAP metaoutline is to decide whether to use the OLAP Metaoutline interface, which offers full function, or the Metaoutline Assistant, which offers a simpler, guided approach. In this lesson, you will start the OLAP Metaoutline Assistant, select an OLAP model to base your metaoutline on, and connect to the database.