multidimensional analysis is business diagnosis. Diagnosis is defined as finding the “best” explanation of observed symptoms. Today … conventional OLAP system with an explanation formalism, which mimics the work of business decision makers in diagnostic processes …

In this paper, we describe an extension of the methodology for explanation generation in financial knowledge … analyses are performed with a diagnostic software application which implements our theory of explanation. Comparison of results … of the classic explanation methodology with the results of the extended methodology shows significant improvements in the …