Arbor Software Unveils Essbase-Ready Gold Program for OLAP Tools Partners.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1997-- Program Will Drive Tighter Integration of Leading Desktop Tools Products With Arbor 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. Server Arbor Software See Hyperion. Corporation (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 enterprise OLAP (online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. ) software for management reporting, analysis and planning applications, today announced an Essbase-Ready Gold Program for Arbor Software Alliance Partners. Desktop tools will be designated as Essbase-Ready Gold for providing tight integration with specific features in Arbor Essbase, making it easier for customers to evaluate the wide range of Essbase-Ready OLAP tools. Arbor Essbase has the most comprehensive tools support in the OLAP server market, with over 30 Essbase-Ready tools available to customers as part of Arbor's Open OLAP Framework. Essbase-Ready desktop tools include spreadsheets, query and reporting tools, Web browsers, application development environments, statistics and data mining, Executive Information Systems (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. ), visualization and enterprise reporting tools. The widespread support for Arbor Essbase enables customers to address the widest range of analytical needs and support diverse user requirements across the enterprise. Under the Essbase-Ready Gold Program, Arbor will test and verify the level of integration between third-party tools and specific Arbor Essbase features, including multi-user read and write access and server based ranking, sorting and filtering. Tools will also be evaluated for integration with the new features that will be available in Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5, such as linked partitions, linked reporting objects, attribute selection and dynamic time series reporting. "Arbor's Customer Advisory Board asked us to help differentiate the rapidly growing number of products that offer integration with Arbor Essbase," said Kirk Cruikshank, senior vice president of marketing at Arbor Software. "The Essbase-Ready Gold Program will provide our customers with a roadmap to quickly identify the tools that provide the highest levels of integration with Arbor Essbase." For more information on the Essbase-Ready Gold Program, visit Arbor on the Web at http://www.arborsoft.com or call Arbor Software at 800/858-1666. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corporation develops and markets enterprise OLAP software for management reporting, analysis and planning applications. Arbor's products are used by more than 1,200 corporations worldwide, spanning a broad range of industries, business applications and enterprise data warehousing architectures. Arbor's customers include BankBoston, 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). , PEPSICO, Prudential and Sears. Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through system integrators and resellers worldwide, including Fujitsu, i2, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lawson, Mitsubishi, PeopleSoft and Walker Interactive Systems. 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., Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Munich, Paris and Sydney. Information on Arbor products and services can be found at http://www.arborsoft.com . Arbor can also be reached via e-mail at info@arborsoft.com or by calling 800/858-1666. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Arbor and Essbase are registered trademarks and Essbase-Ready is a trademark of Arbor Software Corporation. All other product and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Arbor Software Joanna McMillan, 408/541-4035 jmcmillan@arborsoft.com or JONA Jona, variant of Jonah. 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