Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5 has earned the highest total score of all OLAP products in the latest edition of The OLAP Report (www.olapreport.com), published by Business Intelligence, an independent research-based publishing company. Arbor OLAP products also received more first and second place ratings and more scores of nine or "10" than all other competitive products. The side-by-side comparison analyses OLAP products from more than 25 vendors including Hyperion, MicroStrategy, Oracle and SAS. Business Intelligence evaluates 24 categories of features that it considers important for corporations selecting OLAP products. Arbor Essbase 5 earned the highest total score of any OLAP product, outscoring competitive products from Hyperion, MicroStrategy, Oracle and SAS by an average of more than 40 points out of 240 total possible points. Arbor Essbase 5 also received the most scores of nine or more across the 24 categories for its depth and breadth of OLAP functionality. Arbor Essbase 5 earned high marks for its enterprise analytical capabilities including full multi-user read/write with data integrity, sparse data management, data loading and calculation performance, and robust cell-level security. The report also recognises the Arbor Software family of user tools, which includes Arbor Wired for OLAP, Arbor Essbase Web Gateway, Arbor Essbase Objects, Crystal Info for Essbase and Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in, awarding perfect scores of "10" for reporting flexibility, end-user human factors and query performance. Business Intelligence`s OLAP Report On-Line is a comprehensive review of OLAP technologies, applications, case studies and products. The OLAP Report was compiled by OLAP industry veterans, Nigel Pendse and Richard Creeth, who have spent the past three years researching existing products and vendors in the OLAP market, including hands-on evaluations of each product. According to the OLAP Report, additional Arbor Essbase strengths include ease of deployment, database capacity and flexibility and distributed OLAP architecture, which together enable corporations to deploy enterprise class OLAP applications rapidly. The report recognises Wired for OLAP, Essbase Objects, and Essbase Web Gateway as leading OLAP-centric analysis, application development and Web deployment tools. The OLAP Report also lauds the third-party endorsement of Arbor products, recognising that over 50 leading Essbase-Ready tools and applications have been integrated with Arbor Essbase. "The OLAP Report confirms why more corporations are deploying more applications with Arbor Essbase than with any other OLAP server," says Mark Williams, senior VP of marketing at Arbor Software. "Arbor Software delivers the richest family of enterprise OLAP products of any vendor." Other recent awards and distinctions earned by Arbor Software include: * 1998 Database Dozen "12 Companies on the Rise" Database Programming & Design; * "Top MDDB/OLAP Server and top query tool" - ComputerWire`s Data Warehouse Tools Bulletin; * Computerworld Hot 100 Emerging Companies; * Software Magazine 500; * Business Week 100 Hot Growth Companies (Ranked 50th); * 100 Fastest Growing Public Companies - Business Journal of San Jose/Silicon Valley; * Most Important OLAP Server -Software Productivity Group; * Finalist 1997 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award - The Data Warehousing Institute; *.BYTE Magazine "BYTE Best" award and a "Recommended" rating over Oracle Express from National Software Testing Labs (NSTL).
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