Business Objects Announces Native Support for Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1997-- Leading Integrated Query, Reporting, and 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. Tool to Enable Mainstream Users to Perform Ad Hoc Query A non-standard inquiry. An ad hoc query is created to obtain information as the need arises. Contrast with a query that is predefined and routinely performed. See query and ad hoc. and Analysis of Arbor's OLAP Server Business Objects (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 : BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced that it will deliver native support for Arbor Essbase 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. ) Server 5. Arbor Essbase 5, announced today at Dimensions '97, is a strategic platform for scalable, distributed, and integrated enterprise OLAP. Today, Business Objects already provides a native API The Native API (with capitalized N) is the publicly largely undocumented application programming interface used internally by the Windows NT family of operating systems produced by Microsoft.[1] Most of the Native API calls are in ntdll.dll and ntoskrnl. interface to Arbor Essbase 4, whereby BusinessObjects provides direct access to Arbor Essbase, delivering rich analytical capabilities and full production reporting tools that enable mainstream business users to generate professional reports quickly and easily. Business Objects is extending that integration to Arbor Essbase 5 to continue enabling users to access and analyze multidimensional data in order to make informed business decisions. The interface between BusinessObjects and Arbor Essbase offers the following benefits: -- Report writing and desktop analysis: BusinessObjects is the first client/server decision support tool to provide a wide range of functionality from production reporting to end user reporting to OLAP analysis directly against the Arbor Essbase server, all from one interface. Customers will now be able to take advantage of the popular BusinessObjects tool for integrated query, reporting, and analysis to give users added analytical power, such as creating client-side user defined Any format, layout, structure or language that is developed by the user. calculations. -- Automatic report distribution: The BusinessObjects Document Agent Server can automatically generate and distribute reports containing data from Arbor Essbase. This offers customers the ability to schedule reports for enterprise-wide distribution. -- Combining multiple data sources: Customers can join relational and Arbor Essbase data, as well as personal/desktop data, enabling them to report on and analyze data from multiple data sources using BusinessObjects. -- Data Mining: Users will be able to pull Arbor Essbase and other data into data mining tools including BusinessMiner, the powerful desktop data mining tool from Business Objects that helps non-technical users automatically find previously undetected relationships in their business data. -- Mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings : The interface will allow customers to pull Arbor Essbase data into BusinessObjects microcubes, which provide OLAP on the desktop. Users can then perform analysis and reporting while disconnected from Arbor Essbase and from the network. "As an Essbase Ready partner, our support for Arbor Essbase 5 extends our position to enable end users to quickly get the information they need, when they need it, to make better business decisions," said Dave Kellogg, vice president of corporate marketing at Business Objects. "By providing native access to Arbor Essbase 4 and 5, we are better able to address the diverse analytical needs of users throughout the enterprise, from simple OLAP viewing to complex query and analysis and sophisticated OLAP calculations." "The integration between BusinessObjects and Arbor Essbase provides customers with the performance and scalability of Arbor Essbase coupled with the rich report writing and desktop analysis capabilities of BusinessObjects," said Kirk Cruikshank, senior vice president of marketing at Arbor Software See Hyperion. . "The combination is a true best-of-breed solution for enterprise OLAP." About Arbor Essbase Arbor Essbase is an OLAP server optimized for management reporting, analysis, planning applications. Arbor Essbase enables corporations to deliver OLAP applications directly from operational systems, or within an enterprise data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse architecture. Typical Arbor Essbase applications include sales analysis, profitability analysis, 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. , financial consolidations, budgeting and forecasting. Arbor Essbase supports multiuser Two or more users. read and write access, large-scale data capacity, robust analytical calculations, flexible data navigation, consistent, rapid response times in network-centric environments. Arbor Essbase's open architecture supports direct data access using standard spreadsheets, leading third-party query, reporting and EIS tools, and Web browsers. (Editors note: Please see related Arbor press release dated October 27, 1997, for additional information on Arbor Essbase 5.) About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSW ARSW Annual Report of the Secretary of War ) 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 1-800-858-1666. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, and DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 575,000 licenses to over 5,000 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the worldwide web at http://www.businessobjects.com . The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors BOBJY. -0- BusinessObjects and BusinessMiner are trademarks of Business Objects SA. Arbor and Essbase are registered trademarks and Essbase-Ready is a trademark of Arbor Software Corporation. Any other product or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. A full-text copy of this announcement may be obtained by calling the Company's fax retrieval line at 800-414-2114 and selecting option "two." The announcement may also be downloaded from the Web; access "http://www.businesswire.com/cnn" and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800-527-0580. CONTACT: BUSINESS OBJECTS Danielle Dawson, 408/953-6108 or Arbor Software Joanna McMillan, 408/541-4035 |
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