MicroStrategy 7i Business-Intelligence Platform By Corinne Bernstein CRM Buyer 04/03/03 4:00 AM PT MicroStrategy 7i's relational OLAP engine enables the technology to scale small or large, says Forrester analyst Keith Gile. The bad news: Relational OLAP engine tools now are less in demand because IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have OLAP functions in their databases.