1. An apparatus for processing data relating to software defects, the apparatus operative within an associated on-line analytical processing environment that includes at least an on-line analytical processing presentation tool for presenting results of on-line analytical processing, the apparatus comprising: an on-line analytical processing cube model builder for building a plurality of interrelated tables with on-line analytical processing cube model metadata, the tables including at least a defects fact table containing software defects entries corresponding to said data relating to software defects and a plurality of dimension tables, the cube model being configured to be processed by the associated on-line analytical processing presentation tool; and a data extraction tool communicating with a defect tracking database containing said data relating to software defects, the data extraction tool extracting said data from the defect tracking database, transforming the extracted data into the software defect entries, and loading the software defect entries into the defects fact table.