Decision 4.0. (Management News and Products).
Decision 4.0, from Comshare is an ebusiness intelligence (BI)
platform for custom applications including sales and customer data
analysis. It provides managers, analysts and executives with answers to
indeterminate questions like: Which sales territories are furthest from
meeting their plan for this product line?" Which products are
performing best in each of the key distribution channels?'
"How does my day-to-day performance align with strategic corporate
goals Decision 4.0 is designed to deliver Java-based Web applications
with the same functionality in as in client/server solutions, including
exception alerting and reporting, personal calculations, drill down,
sorting, writing back to the central database, charting and customisable
Web entry points for individual users. The design exploits Microsoft NET See .NET. platform, and supports Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 2000 Analysis
Services, 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) DB2 and DB2 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, Oracle 8i or better, and Hyperion
Essbase. Comshare offers SAP customers Comshare Decision wit h a
SAP-certified interface as an OLAP reporting application applied to the
SAP6 Business Information Warehouse.
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