ESSBASE 4.0 Garners Broad Support From Leading Software Vendors; 25 Leading Products Integrate With Enhanced Essbase Server.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1996--Arbor Software Corporation, a leading provider of client/server software for business planning, analysis and management reporting, today announced that the newly released Essbase 4.0 has garnered support from 17 leading software vendors. This affirms Arbor's leadership in open, enterprise 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. solutions and showcases the unprecedented support for Essbase's robust Application Programming Interface (API). The wide range of complimentary applications and tools solutions also reinforces the continued success of Arbor's Essbase-Ready partnering initiatives. The 25 software products supporting Essbase 4.0 offer a broad range of functionality, including spreadsheets, application development tools, managed query environments, desktop OLAP products, executive information systems, visualization software, systems management tools and internet browsers. Arbor's customers benefit by having a choice of "best-in-class" products which together deliver far greater capabilities than could be provided by any single vendor. "The support of Essbase 4.0 by so many leading software vendors reinforces Essbase's position as the leading open-systems OLAP solution," said Kirk Cruikshank, Arbor's vice president of marketing. "The power of Essbase 4.0 coupled with an unmatched suite of complementary products provides tremendous value to our customers." "Together, Comshare and Arbor have delivered solutions to over 400 customers who are using Comshare applications integrated with Essbase," said Steve Tonissen, senior vice president of marketing at Comshare. "Essbase's advanced multidimensional database See OLAP. features combined with Commander Decisions new dynamic decision support environment enable our joint customers to quickly build and deploy larger and more powerful applications. Essbase 4.0's ability to support a much broader class of decision support applications enables us to use it as the foundation for more application development efforts." The following tools will support Essbase 4.0: Spreadsheets -- Applix Inc.'s Applixware -- Lotus Development Corporation's Lotus 1-2-3 -- Microsoft(R) Excel Managed Query Environments -- Andyne Computing Ltd. - PaBLO -- Cognos - PowerPlay(R) -- IQ Software Planning, Analysis and Management Reporting System -- Comshare - Commander Decision Executive Information Systems -- AppSource - WIRED for OLAP -- Mobile Software - Essbase(R)/Pilot Lightship lightship, moored vessel bearing lights and other signal devices to guide ships and warn of hazards to navigation. Lightships are generally stationed at points where a lighthouse cannot be erected; they are given distinctive features (e.g. Link -- Platinum Technology - Forest & Trees(R) -- Track Business Solutions - TRACK Application Development Tools -- Borland - Delphi -- Microsoft(R) - Visual Basic -- Powersoft - Powerbuilder Internet Browsers -- Management Science Associates - BusinessWEB Visualization Tools -- Advanced Visual Systems - AVS/Express System Management Tools -- BMC Software - PATROL -- Hewlett-Packard - Intelligent Warehouse OLAP Builder -- 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) - DataGuide, DataJoiner Essbase 4.0 Platforms and Pricing Essbase 4.0 will be available in full 32-bit versions for both single-user and server platforms. The server version of Essbase is available immediately running on Microsoft Windows NT and IBM OS/2. Server versions running on Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and Sun Solaris and the single-user version of Essbase running on Windows NT will ship in approximately 60 days. The Essbase 4.0 server supports Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). clients operating over standard networks. The Essbase server is priced at $37,500 for a five concurrent-user license. The single-user version of Essbase is priced at $2,500 per user and sold in packages of five. Both the server version and single-user version include Essbase Application Manager for designing OLAP applications and Essbase Spreadsheet Client software for seamless access to data directly from Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3. 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, "speed of thought" response times. The Essbase servers open architecture supports direct data access using standard spreadsheets or leading third-party query, reporting and EIS tools. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSW ARSW Annual Report of the Secretary of War ) develops and markets client/server software for business planning, analysis and management reporting. Arbor's products are used by more than 650 corporations spanning a broad range of industries and business applications including Bank of Boston, Emery Worldwide, Fidelity, Intel, 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 80 application, services, tools and platform partners, including Comshare, 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. and London. 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: Essbase is a registered trademark of Arbor Software Corporation. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 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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