Arbor Software Ships Essbase Web Gateway Ahead of Schedule; Web Gateway Delivers OLAP Applications Over the World Wide Web.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--Arbor(R) 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 that on Sept. 23 it will begin shipping the Essbase(R) Web Gateway, which enables scalable, high-speed, interactive, read and write access to the Essbase 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 ) server over the World Wide Web. Originally scheduled for release in December 1996, the Essbase Web Gateway is the first and only server technology to deliver full OLAP functionality over the World Wide Web. The Essbase Web Gateway is used to develop and deploy intranet and internet based Web-enabled applications such as ad-hoc analysis, management reporting, enterprise information systems, budgeting, sales forecasting. Essbase and the Essbase Web Gateway allow corporations to deliver OLAP applications directly from operational systems, or within an overall data warehousing architecture. Standard Web browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. , can be used to access OLAP applications developed using the Essbase Web Gateway. "Anyone with a browser can now access the analytical power of Essbase," 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. "We are excited to deliver ahead of schedule the first high-performance Web gateway that enables corporations to quickly build and deploy sophisticated Web-enabled OLAP applications." By combining the Essbase Web Gateway's high performance multi-threaded architecture with the Essbase server's "speed of thought" performance, corporations can deploy OLAP applications that scale to support hundreds of interactive users using standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and Web server technologies. The Essbase Web Gateway provides corporate Webmasters with robust application development capabilities through a library of over 50 HTML tags which direct the functionality of the Essbase Web Gateway. As few as five of the HTML tags can be used to define and deliver a fully functional, interactive Web-enabled OLAP application in minutes. The Essbase Web Gateway is compatible with JavaScript and Java, which can be used to deliver enhanced applications with traditional client-server functionality like data entry validation and charting. The Essbase Web Gateway is priced at $10,000 per Essbase server, and is initially available on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. A version of the Essbase Web Gateway running on Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system will enter beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the in the fourth quarter of calendar year 1996. Live On-Line Demonstration of the Essbase Web Gateway Arbor has placed a live on-line demonstration of the Essbase Web Gateway on the World Wide Web at http://webgate.arborsoft.com. Averaging over 20,000 accesses from major corporations every week since its introduction in August, the demonstration allows users to interact with the only Web-enabled OLAP product that delivers all essential OLAP features including drill down/up/across, pivot, and 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 provides robust multi-user update capabilities. The demonstration site features live, Web-enabled OLAP applications including an Enterprise Information System, management reporting, ad-hoc OLAP analysis and a budgeting application with JavaScript-based data validation. Strong Customer Interest More than 20 corporations participated the Essbase Web Gateway beta program, and over 100 individuals have participated in technical training for Essbase Web Gateway over the past several months. Several customers have already placed orders for the Essbase Web Gateway, and Arbor plans to recognize initial revenues for the Essbase Web Gateway in September 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 (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. . 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 800 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. Except for any historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The company's future results could differ materially from the results discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed from time to time in the company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those discussed in "Risk Factors That May Affect Future Results" included in the company's report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended March 31, 1996. -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 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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