A system for a personal intelligence network provides informational and
transactional data. Data distribution servers provide e-mail and other
messages of topical interest to a subset of the subscribers. The content
may be generated by an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) based channel
database system, and the output may also be communicated to individuals
via spreadsheet programs data, pager, telephone, mobile phone, fax,
personal digital assistants, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) e-mail and
other formats, including a workbook file attachment. Reports generated
may enable a subscriber to act upon the content within the report,
thereby providing an interactive component to the report. Subscriber
actions or inaction to the report and content may be obtained and
analyzed, including analysis in connection with the other informational
and transactional data.