Arbor Software, a leading provider of enterprise OLAP (online analytical processing) software, has announced the immediate availability of Arbor Essbase Objects. Essbase Objects is a family of OLAP-aware ActiveX controls for developing robust enterprise OLAP applications.Essbase Objects lets developers quickly create sophisticated OLAP applications, including sales and marketing analysis, financial analysis, management reporting, enterprise information systems, balanced scorecards, budgeting, planning and forecasting.Essbase Objects works with leading integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++. These application development tools, already used by millions of experienced programmers, can now be used to build robust enterprise OLAP applications."Traditionally end-user OLAP applications have been restricted to proprietary monolithic development environments or tools for developing analytical applications," says Don MacTavish, senior research analyst at META Group. "The trend we see is towards open, component-based application development suites. META Group research has shown that component architectures significantly ease development and increase productivity.""The combination of Essbase Objects, industry-standard, integrated development environments and Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5 delivers a robust platform for quickly deploying analytical applications," says Mark Williams, MD of the IBD Group, South African agent for Arbor."The ActiveX Component model has become the standard for enterprise development. Visual Basic 5.0 is the most efficient tool for creating high-performance ActiveX components," says Jon Roskill, group product manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. "Now, the combination of Visual Basic and Arbor Essbase Objects delivers a great solution for corporations developing and deploying enterprise OLAP applications."Arbor Essbase Objects componentsArbor Essbase Objects includes integrated OLAP-Aware ActiveX controls for data access, visual data display, navigation, data selection and layout.Essbase Objects data server control manages high-speed read/write connections to Arbor Essbase and communicates with the other Essbase Objects and third-party ActiveX controls using Microsoft`s COM architecture.Essbase Objects grid control is a high-performance, Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet with over 200 methods and properties that provide complete control over look, feel, functionality and OLAP interaction. Essbase Objects chart control delivers more than 35 types of two-dimensional and three-dimensional charts and graphs with photo-realistic rendering of shading, lighting and rotation.Essbase Objects visual data selection and metadata navigation controls, including combo boxes, command buttons and list boxes, allow developers to control how users interact with their applications without programming. Essbase Objects "Retrieval Wizard" control allows developers and users to design, run and share sophisticated OLAP queries.Object-oriented development of high performance applicationsEssbase Objects enable object-oriented (OO) application development, greatly enhancing developer productivity. Essbase Objects applications can be compiled into native, optimised code for the highest performance and smallest client footprint. Compiled Essbase Objects applications provide up to 20 times better performance than OLAP application development tools using interpreted runtime environments and minimise client resource consumption.Open architecture and widespread third-party supportEssbase Objects applications work with thousands of ActiveX controls created by leading software developers. ActiveX controls for mapping, statistics, visualisation, multimedia and advanced navigation are integrated into Essbase Objects applications easily and seamlessly. Additionally, Essbase-Ready ActiveX controls from SPSS, ESRI and Track Objects deliver out-of-the-box integration with Essbase Objects. Pricing and availabilityEssbase Objects is available immediately for Microsoft Windows `95 and Windows NT operating systems. Essbase Objects is priced at $10 000 per Arbor Essbase server, with no per-developer or per-user charges. A free downloadable evaluation version is available on the Web at http://www.arborsoft.com.
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