ComponentOne, a component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio industry partner program, has released ComponentOne OLAP for WinForms, a suite of five Microsoft .NET Framework-based controls, which it claims to provide analytical processing features similar to those found in Microsoft excel pivot tables and pivot charts.

The company said that the new data analysis tool provides an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine that summarises raw data according to the criteria selected by the user. The C1OlapPage control groups all the controls inside the suite including panel, grid, chart, and PrintDocument in one tabbed interface.

In addition, the suite provides a drag-and-drop UI for defining custom views. Users may perform ad-hoc analysis by selecting any number of data fields they want to analyse and the OLAP controls do all the work summarising the data.

According to ComponentOne, OLAP for WinForms provides summary views in the grid and chart, and also creates printable reports based on those views. By extending the PrintDocument class it provides properties for specifying content and formatting for showing OLAP grids, charts, and the raw data used to create the report. The page orientation may be changed and the report may be printed or exported to PDF.

Gustavo Eydelsteyn, managing director at ComponentOne, said: Users can integrate ComponentOne OLAP for WinForms into their User Interface (UI) making it compact and offering great customization. Being able to transform raw data into visible patterns and trends without writing a single line of code offers significant time savings and eliminates human error often associated with this task.