PeopleSoft Selects Arbor's Essbase as Multidimensional Database for Its Comprehensive OLAP Strategy; Companies Team to Deliver Integrated Operational OLAP Solution.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1996--Arbor Software (Nasdaq:ARSW ARSW Annual Report of the Secretary of War ), a leading provider of client/server software for planning, analysis and management reporting, announced today that PeopleSoft has selected Arbor's Essbase multidimensional database See OLAP. server as the data mart A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. for its comprehensive 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. strategy. The companies will integrate Essbase with the PeopleSoft application suite by enabling customers to combine the metadata of PeopleSoft applications, including trees, effective dating and security features, with Essbases robust analytical capabilities. Metadata stored in PeopleSoft's applications will automatically be synchronized with the contents of an Essbase data mart to accurately and easily reflect changing data structures. This combination will offer users a true Operational OLAP solution by integrating "what happened?", "what-if?" and "what next?" analysis and planning capabilities with enterprise client/server applications. Essbase provides a strategic platform to perform a variety of enterprise applications such as budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, management reporting, sales analysis and marketing analysis. PeopleSoft plans to develop and market a series of OLAP application templates to enable customers to immediately use Essbase with PeopleSoft applications. "In the highly competitive applications market, we are pleased that PeopleSoft has selected Essbase as the data mart in its OLAP strategy," said Jim Dorrian, Arbor Software's 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. . "Essbase offers users robust analytical power, speed of thought response times, full read/write access and open support for a broad range of tools, making Essbase an ideal component in PeopleSoft's enterprise application suite." "Arbor is a market leader in the multidimensional database server market," said Jim Hopp, PeopleSoft's manager of technology strategy. "By integrating the powerful OLAP capabilities of Arbor's Essbase with PeopleSoft applications, we will be able to deliver analytical data mart capabilities to our mutual customers." Open Architecture Business Objects and Cognos, two of Arbor Software's Alliance Partners, were also named as part of PeopleSoft's OLAP strategy. Cognos' PowerPlay is one of the many popular front end tools which seamlessly connects to Essbase. In addition, Business Objects and Arbor recently announced a marketing and development agreement to deliver an interface between BusinessObjects 4.0 and Essbase. Arbor's alliance with Cognos and Business Objects delivers an integrated client/server solution for multidimensional planning, analysis, and reporting. As part of PeopleSoft's OLAP strategy, joint customers can now leverage Essbase's strengths for applications which require multi-user access, large data capacity and powerful analytics with popular desktop query, reporting, and analysis tools. 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 An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. , 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 server's open architecture supports direct data access using standard spreadsheets or leading third-party query, reporting and EIS tools. Essbase scales from a single-user solution to enterprise OLAP (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 within a data warehousing strategy. Essbase operates on servers running Windows NT, OS/2 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). across all major networks connected to Windows, Macintosh and UNIX clients. About Arbor Software Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSW) 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, 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, 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. -0- Note to Editors: Essbase is a registered trademark of Arbor Software Corporation. 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. CONTACT: Arbor Software Joanna McMillan, 408/541-4035 jmcmillan@arborsoft.com or PeopleSoft, Inc. Kit Robinson, 510/274-9794 kit_robinson@peoplesoft.com |
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