In BAM, instead of waiting for the execution of data analysis task to update the cube aggregations at scheduled intervals, one can define specific slices of data to be aggregated in real-time. For example, in a departmental store scenario, a store manager may want to know what the sales of a promotional item is. Typically, he may have to wait for the report on the next day because the cube aggregations are updated daily at midnight. With the real-time aggregation feature in BAM, he may query the real-time views via Excel pivot tables, to know the up-to-date (to