Sagent OpenLink. (Tools).

Sagent have announced the availability of Sagent OpenLink, that allows any ODBC or JDBC-compliant software application to use the analytical power of Sagent's Data Access Server. Business analysts who work with business intelligence tools such as Actuate, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal Decisions and Microsoft Excel can now use Sagent to transparently incorporate advanced analytics into their existing reports and business performance management solutions. Application developers can use Sagent OpenLink to query information from data warehouses and heterogeneous operational systems, then integrate, transform and deliver architected data sets that are fully accessible via SQL.

Comment:

Companies have invested heavily in query and reporting and OLAP tools, and often employ multiple solutions across the enterprise. However, these front-end BI tools can only access a single data source at a time and have analytic capabilities that are restricted by physical database schemas. When combined with the Sagent platform, these BI tools become powerful analytic applications, enabling users to access data from multiple sources and calculate new metrics for their analyses, such as profitability forecasts, customer segmentation and time-period, variances. The Sagent Data Access Server and Sagent OpenLink provide strategic leverage to the BI development lifecycle by allowing business users to validate additions to analytical applications before the underlying databases or MOLAP cubes are changed.

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