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Introducing Hyperion Essbase
This chapter provides an architectural overview of the product components and introduces the key features of Essbase products, including:
• | Essbase Analytic Services |

• | Essbase Deployment Services |

• | Essbase Administration Services |

• | Essbase Spreadsheet Services |

• | Essbase Integration Services |
Essbase products provide companieswith the ability to deliver critical business information to the right people when they need it. With Essbase, companies quickly leverage and integrate data from multiple existing data sources and distribute filtered information to end-user communities in the format that best meets the users' needs. Users interact and intuitively explore data in real-time and along familiar business dimensions,enabling them to perform speed-of-thought analytics.
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Key Features
Essbase Product Components
Key Features
Essbase products provide the analytic solution that integrates data from multiple sources and meets the needs of users across an enterprise. Essbase products enable the quick and easy implementation of solutions, add value to previously inaccessible data, and transformdata into actionable information.
Integration with Existing Infrastructure
Essbase products integrate with your existing business intelligence infrastructure. Essbase products meet the enterprise analytic demands of users for critical business information with a minimum of information technology (IT) overhead and thus enable organizations to realize maximum return on their existing ITinvestments:
• | Provides an extensible architecture |

• | Supports a comprehensive range of data sources, hardware and operating system platforms, access interfaces, and development languages |

• | Enables analytic applications to be deployed across a local or wide area network and across an intranet or Internet |
Data Integration
Essbase products enable organizations to leverage data in theirdata warehouses, legacy systems, online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, e-business systems, customer relationship management (CRM) applications, Web log files and other external data sources. For database integration, Essbase Integration Services provides a suite of graphical tools, data integration services, and a metadata catalog that tie intorelational databases or data warehouse environments (including SAP BW).
Ease of Server and Database Administration
Essbase products provide a cross-platform administration console. The console gives you detailed control over the Essbase environment:
• | You can manage multiple servers and databases. |

• | You can use MaxL, a syntactical language command shell with a PERL extensionmodule, to automate batch maintenance. |
Mission Critical Applications in Web-based Environments
A middle-tier framework extends the power of Essbase products by creating a Web-enabled, distributed platform for Essbase applications hence serving the analysis needs of large numbers of users in Web-based environments. Essbase Deployment Services provide connection pooling, clustering, and failoversupport, which extend the scalability and reliability of the platform and support mission-critical applications in a 24 x 7 environment.
Powerful Querying
Large communities of business users can interact with data in real time, analyzing business performance at the speed of thought. Using Essbase products you can organize and present data along familiar business dimensions, thus enabling users toview and explore the data intuitively and to turn the data into actionable information.
Calculations
Essbase Analytic Services includes powerful calculation features for demanding analytic requirements. A rich library of functions makes it easy to define advanced and sophisticated business logic and relationships. Analytic Services gives users the flexibility to build, customize and extend...