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About the Essbase Product Family

The Essbase product family includes the following feature sets:

Essbase Administration Services:
Essbase Administration Services is the new framework for managing and maintaining Essbase. Essbase Administration Services consists of a client console and a middle tier server that communicate directly with Essbase OLAP Servers. Both of these components can run on any platform supported by Essbase.

Essbase Application Manager :
The Application Manager is a graphical environment for developing and maintaining Essbase applications on a single OLAP Server. Tasks include building outlines and dimensions, performing data loads and calculations, and defining security access.


Essbase OLAP Server:
A multidimensional database for storing data with an unlimited number of dimensions such as time, accounts, region, channel, or product. The Essbase server manages analytical data models, data storage, calculations, and data security.

Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in :
The Spreadsheet Add-in desktop software enables analysis of the data stored in the Essbase server. Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets.

Essbase application tools :
This suite of tools is used for extending Essbase applications. These tools include Essbase currency conversion, Essbase SQL Interface, Essbase Spreadsheet Toolkit, and Essbase Application Programming Interface.

Essbase Partitioning :
This suite of features makes it easy to design and administer databases that span Essbase applications or servers. You can copy a slice of a large database to work with locally, or you can link from your database directly to other databases.