With companies rapidly incorporating business analysis as a mission-critical enterprise platform and service, Hyperion, locally represented by Global Technology Business Intelligence (GBI), has announced the general availability of Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server 6, the new version of Hyperion`s open, cross-platform, enterprise OLAP server.
The new version delivers enhanced performance, scalability and sophisticated analytics to help corporate decision makers across the extended enterprise to optimise e-business effectiveness; enhance customer, partner and supplier relationships; streamline supply chain systems; and improve overall operational and financial performance.
Already the strategic OLAP (online analytical processing) platform for more than 3 000 customers and 350 partners, Hyperion Essbase 6 offers Hyperion customers and partners an enterprise-class OLAP platform for new business analysis applications in areas such as e-business, trading exchanges, and customer service centres. In addition, version 6 also enables business analysis applications for financial management, manufacturing, sales and marketing.
By driving the entire range of business analysis across the enterprise, Hyperion Essbase 6 helps organisations increase the return on their investments in e-business, CRM and ERP systems and improve top- and bottom-line performance.
Industry analysts estimate the OLAP market will surpass $3 billion by 2003. "Hyperion Essbase 6 offers our customers and partners an unparalleled platform for business analysis across the enterprise," says Johan van Jaarsveld, CEO of GBI. "The new version helps organisations capitalise on emerging opportunities in business-to-business analysis, as well as deploy mission-critical applications across areas such as retail/e-tail, consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and manufacturing. Widespread beta customer and partner enthusiasm for Hyperion Essbase 6 extends Hyperion`s leadership in delivering mission-critical OLAP technology that enhances performance across all areas of the business."
"META Group continues to see explosive growth and demand for analytic applications that address a broad range of traditional and emerging markets," said Mark A. Smith, program director in META Group`s Application Delivery Strategies. "With an increasing number of ISVs building analytic applications on Hyperion Essbase, and new advanced attribute and calculation features that address a range of sophisticated business analysis applications, analytical application software companies, like Hyperion, are well positioned to help organisations capitalise on these opportunities."
New capabilities in Essbase OLAP Server 6
Expanded attribute analysis - Users can associate additional text, numeric, and date information, or "attributes," with the data elements in their analytic applications built on Hyperion Essbase 6. This dramatically expands analytical capabilities across descriptive categories such as demographic segments, product types or online behaviour characteristics.
Increased performance and scalability - Hyperion Essbase 6 supports enterprise-wide user communities accessing multiple, linked business analysis applications in multiple geographical locations.
Sophisticated business calculations - Hyperion Essbase 6 offers new calculations for forecasting, trending, statistics, and profitability modelling. These calculations allow users to move beyond historical reporting and analysis to anticipate and model changes in market and business conditions and analyse the impact of business decisions.
Thousands of organisations already leverage Hyperion Essbase to deliver strategic business analysis applications that integrate data from ERP, CRM and e-business systems, legacy systems and data warehouses. As organisations invest in operational systems in areas such as online shopping, sales force automation, trading exchanges and call centres, they face the same challenge of integrating, unlocking and analysing information to drive better decisions and fully realise the return on investment in these systems.
Hyperion Essbase 6 builds on the strengths of the market-leading enterprise OLAP server, to give customers critical insights across all areas of the business.
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