Arbor Software Achieves Breakthrough OLAP Performance With Compaq; Essbase 4.0 Leverages ProLiant 5000 SMP Server Architecture for OLAP.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--Arbor Software Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ARSW ARSW Annual Report of the Secretary of War ), a leading provider of client/server software for business planning, analysis and management reporting, announced today that it has achieved significant performance breakthroughs using Essbase 4.0, its multidimensional database See OLAP. server, with the new Compaq ProLiant 5000 servers. Both internal Arbor and customer benchmarks operating under Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. show increased performance of up to 300 percent using Essbase 4.0 with the new Intel Pentium Pro processor-based ProLiant 5000 servers. Arbor Software, Compaq Computer Corp., and Intel Corp. have been working together for over six months to test and optimize 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. (On-line Analytical Processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions ) applications that will allow corporations to deploy dramatically larger databases, with unmatched performance, serving large user communities. "Our Essbase product mix analysis application monitors the performance of 680 Carls Jr. restaurants on a daily basis. Our users want to expand the breadth of our application to include over two years of daily historical sales at a lower level of detail, so we need a system that can perform at very high levels," said Paul Wartenberg, business systems analyst at Carl Karcher Enterprises. "The Compaq Pentium Pro processor-based servers coupled with Essbase 4.0 will enable our analysts to monitor our business in greater detail and respond to market changes more rapidly than ever before." "The powerful combination of Essbase 4.0 with our new Compaq ProLiant 5000 server enables customers to deploy cost effective, enterprise-class OLAP applications," said Gene Austin, vice president marketing, Compaq Systems Division. "The ProLiant 5000 running Essbase 4.0 provides excellent performance and availability for business analysis applications that support hundreds of users and hundreds of gigabytes of data." Essbase 4.0 Leverages Compaq ProLiant 5000 SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. Architecture and Scalability Enterprise OLAP applications such as performance reporting, sales analysis, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting and planning must support very large user communities. Essbase's multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading architecture takes advantage of the symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities of the Compaq ProLiant 5000. Essbase 4.0 uses up to 4 Pentium Pro processors in the ProLiant and provides near linear scalability. Running on the ProLiant 5000 with Intel Pentium Pro processors and Microsoft Windows NT, Essbase 4.0 delivers speed-of-thought response times from very large OLAP databases to large numbers of users. "Our customers want multi-hundred gigabyte data capacity, robust analytical calculations and immediate response time for hundreds of users all on a single OLAP server," said Kirk Cruikshank, vice president of marketing for Arbor Software. "The Compaq ProLiant 5000 server in conjunction with Essbase 4.0 allows corporations to achieve this goal in a highly scaleable and cost-effective manner." Availability Essbase version 4.0 running under Windows NT on the Compaq ProLiant 5000 server is available immediately. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corp. develops and markets client/server software for business planning, analysis and management reporting. Arbor's products are used by more than 650 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business applications including Bank of Boston, Emery Worldwide, Fidelity, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , Neutrogena, Pennzoil, PEPSICO, Prudential and Sears. Arbor has over 100 application, services, tools and platform partners, including Comshare, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft See Microsoft and IBM. . Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through system integrators and VARs worldwide. Arbor's offices are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Sunnyvale, Washington, London and Paris. More information on Arbor products and services can be found on Arbor's World Wide Web (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) site at http://www.arborsoft.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Arbor and Essbase are registered trademarks of Arbor Software Corp. Any other product or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For Arbor Software product information, please call 800/858-1666. CONTACT: Arbor Software, Sunnyvale Joanna McMillan, 408/541-4035 jmcmillan@arborsoft.com or Compaq Computer Corp. Jerele Neeld, 713/514-2394 jneeld@bangate.compaq.com |
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