When you think of analytic applications, you might automatically think of analyzing historical data. However, many analytic applications such as bud-geting and planning applications make excellent use of OLAP technology by analyzing future data. In SQL Server 2000, Microsoft added several analytic features that make Analysis Services a better tool than it was in SQL Server 7.0 for these planning applications. Analysis Services lets you allocate a new value to all cube cells that contribute to th...