Arbor Software Announces On-Line Demonstration Site Showcasing Web-Enabled OLAP Applications; Essbase Web Gateway Enables OLAP Over The World Wide Web.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 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, today announced the immediate availability of an on-line demonstration site for Web-enabled business applications including management reporting, ad-hoc analysis, budgeting, and enterprise information systems using Essbase and the Essbase Web Gateway. Visitors to the Essbase Web Gateway demonstration site at http://webgate.arborsoft.com can interact with the only Web-enabled 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. product that delivers all essential OLAP features including drill-down/up/across, pivot, slice and dice Refers to rearranging data so that it can be viewed from different perspectives. The term is typically used with OLAP databases that present information to the user in the form of multidimensional cubes similar to a 3D spreadsheet. See OLAP. and multi-user interactive on-line update. Designed to represent a real corporate intranet server, the Essbase Web Gateway site demonstrates live, Web-enabled OLAP applications including EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. , management reporting, ad-hoc multidimensional analysis In statistics, econometrics, and related fields, multidimensional analysis is a data analysis process that groups data into two basic categories: data dimensions and measurements. and budgeting. Users can select a variety of demonstration options which showcase the range of interactivity enabled by the Essbase Web Gateway. "Arbor's customers are planning to use the Essbase Web Gateway to deliver information to thousands of empowered employees throughout their organizations," said Jim Dorrian, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Arbor Software. "Our beta sites are taking advantage of the unmatched user scalability offered by Essbase and the Essbase Web Gateway to deliver Web-enabled Operational OLAP applications to the masses." "The Essbase Web Gateway enables Bell Canada to leverage our existing Essbase environment," said Tim McCutcheon, director of information management at Bell Canada. "In only a couple of hours, we developed an application connected to live Essbase data. We are planning to use the Essbase Web Gateway to deliver a wide range of OLAP functionality and Essbase data to a whole new category of users, including sales managers and business managers who don't generally have live access to production data." The Essbase Web Gateway delivers high-speed interactive, read and write access to the Essbase multidimensional database server for operational OLAP (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, integrating "what happened?", "what-if?" and "what next?" analysis and planning within a single, client/server system. By combining Essbase Web Gateway's multi-threaded architecture with Essbase's speed of thought query performance, Essbase Web Gateway can support very large user communities using standard Web browsers and Web servers. The Essbase Web Gateway provides corporate Webmasters with complete application development control through a library of 50 custom Essbase HTML tags used to create and deliver access to Essbase applications through Web pages. As few as four Essbase tags can be used to easily define and deliver a fully-functioning, interactive Web-enabled application. Essbase Web Gateway Pricing and Availability The Essbase Web Gateway is priced at $10,000 per Essbase server. Arbor Software plans to release the Essbase Web Gateway into production in the fourth quarter of calendar year 1996. About Essbase Essbase is a multidimensional database optimized for business planning, analysis and management reporting applications such as profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, planning, financial consolidations, sales analysis and EIS. Based upon a true, client/server architecture, Essbase supports multi-user read and write access, large-scale data capacity, robust analytical calculations, flexible data navigation and consistent, rapid response times. The Essbase server's open architecture supports direct data access using standard spreadsheets or leading third-party query, reporting and EIS tools. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corp. (NASDAQ:ARSW) develops and markets client/server software for business planning, analysis and management reporting. Arbor's products are used by more than 700 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business applications including Bank of Boston, 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, Fujitsu, 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 D.C., 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 or send e-mail to info@arborsoft.com. CONTACT: Arbor Software Corp. Joanna McMillan, 408/541-4035 jmcmillan@arborsoft.com or JONA Jona, variant of Jonah. Group Jamie O'Donnell, 415/552-1515 jamie@jonagroup.com |
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