Arbor Essbase OLAP Server and Arbor Wired for OLAP have been named two of the Top 10 Products of 1997 in ComputerWire`s Data Warehouse Tools Bulletin.Arbor was the only vendor with more than one product on the "Top 10 Products of 1997" list. Over 50 data warehouse products were considered for the awards.ComputerWire`s Data Warehouse Tools Bulletin covers the market of data warehouse tools and software products, including OLAP servers, query tools, transformation products, integrated toolkits, ROLAP engines, data mining and metadata management products.Essbase leads MDDB/OLAP categoryArbor Essbase was ranked the leading product in the MDDB/OLAP category. Arbor Essbase is a strategic analytical platform optimised for enterprise management reporting, analysis and planning applications. It supports multi-user read-write access, large-scale data capacity, robust analytical calculations and sophisticated OLAP queries.According to ComputerWire`s Data Warehouse Tools Bulletin, "Our favorite OLAP engine is Arbor Essbase because it offers superior technology that delivers real value to customers. In addition, Arbor is growing fast and has won widespread support for the Arbor Essbase API from the leading tools and applications vendors."WIRED for OLAP leads query tool categoryWIRED for OLAP received top rankings in the query tool category. WIRED for OLAP is an OLAP-centric analysis and presentation tool that operates in both client/server and Web-based computing architectures.According to the report, "One of the key trends in data warehousing is that query tools are moving to a three-tier architecture." Recognising that trend, the report chose WIRED for OLAP and Brio Technology`s BrioQuery Enterprise, an Essbase-Ready tool, as the top two query products of 1997.The report praised WIRED for OLAP as "a real Internet technology product suitable for deployment across intranet, Internet and extranet, PCs, NCs, Macs and Unix desktops, and without a requirement to force any IT infrastructure decisions up and down the supplier chain"."We are honoured that ComputerWire selected two Arbor products as the top OLAP and data warehousing products," says Kirk Cruikshank, senior VP of marketing for Arbor Software. "This endorsement for Arbor Essbase and WIRED for OLAP confirms the strength of our product offering and further illustrates why over 1 400 corporations worldwide are standardising on Arbor products for enterprise OLAP applications."Other recent awards and distinctions earned by Arbor Software include: 1998 Database Dozen "12 Companies on the Rise" Database Programming & Design; 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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