Applied OLAP, Inc. Announces New Alliance With ThinkFast Consulting, Inc.Business Editors HUNTSVILLE, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002 Partnership Provides Customers with Enterprise Wide Web-based Delivery of Information Critical to Planning and Forecasting Applied OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. , Inc., a software development company that caters exclusively to users of the industry-leading Hyperion (HYSL) Essbase(R) today announced an alliance with ThinkFast Consulting, Inc., a full-service provider of integrated business intelligence (BI) solutions. The partnership will enable ThinkFast to deliver custom solutions to meet their client's demands for ease of use and flexibility of a browser-based environment. This alliance combines ThinkFast's business and technical expertise and Applied OLAP technology to significantly increase the return on their client's investment in Essbase. This combination helps deliver access to critical information needed to run their business and allow customers to access, analyze, and share corporate information and reports. Enhanced drill-down capability is also now available. With a simple click of a button users can view detail level data from the data warehouse for improved decision-making capability. Furthermore, interactive spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. elements in a browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used , decreasing development time, limiting cost of training employees and reducing costs for maintenance while improving time-to live or rollout of the solution. With these BI capabilities, customers will be able to increase profitability, enhance client relationships, expand market share, improve risk management, and heighten height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. their competitive advantage. "As business intelligence and analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. become more mission critical to the enterprise, it is important to have strong alliances with key technology solutions integrators like ThinkFast," said Tim Tow, president of Applied OLAP. "We are pleased to have ThinkFast Consulting join our program. ThinkFast provides a complete service consultancy and has an impressive track record of success. Our joint customers will benefit from a more efficient, truly integrated business intelligence solution that leverages the performance, scalability and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. power of Hyperion Essbase(R)." "ThinkFast and Applied OLAP share a common vision of providing customers with access to a wide variety of corporate information through a unified set of enterprise-scale business intelligence solutions," said Tom Phelps, president of ThinkFast Consulting. "We welcome Applied OLAP as a ThinkFast strategic software partner, and look forward to continued success in helping clients achieve real business improvement through better information management." About Applied OLAP, Inc. Applied OLAP, Inc. was founded in 1998. The company's software and consulting is focused on the needs of Hyperion Essbase users. ActiveOLAP for Essbase has helped companies implement business analytical applications in various industries including banking, insurance, health care, communications, manufacturing, distribution, transportation and aerospace. For more information visit www.appliedolap.com. About ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is a premier full-service provider of enterprise-wide business intelligence (BI) services designed to provide customers with real-time structured access to information for strategic and tactical decision making. Ranked number 49 of the 2001 fastest growing private companies by Inc. 500 Magazine, ThinkFast is headquartered in Chicago, and has local offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . For more information, visit www.thinkfast.com. |
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