The solution offers both fixed reports and access to Excel with the use of so-called data cubes or blocks that can be rotated in various ways. The data is arranged with interrelationships so that it can be accessed from various angles in pivot tables in Excel. In this way, various angles can be viewed by dragging different attributes into rows or columns as needed.

As an example of the use of Askja, imagine the following: A researcher needs to know the number of male patients between the ages of 20-30 who came to a clinic for stomach pain from June 1st to September 1st, were treated by Dr. Jón Jónsson, were sent for a sensitivity test and received ibuprofen. In the example, the data cube measures the number of patients, and the dimensions that determine that number are gender, patient age, reason, arrival date, doctor, diagnosis, and medication.