Performance Management, Olap, Essbase, Data Warehouse, ISeries

Gain the Insight You Need

ShowCase Essbase helps your organization gain insight into conditions that are critical to your success. It is an advanced online analytical processing (OLAP) solution that enables you to leverage information you already have in new and more powerful ways. You can improve your understanding of customer profitability, product profitability, product quality, and many other aspects of your operations.

ShowCase Essbase is part of the ShowCase Suite from SPSS, the leading business intelligence solution for companies using the IBM® eServer™ iSeries™ (AS/400®) computing platform. With ShowCase Essbase, you can:

Organize information from different sources to eliminate information "silos" and the resulting inconsistencies and added costs
Support the analytical needs of multiple functional areas from a single platform
Carry out complex analyses, such as multi-currency financial translations and inter-departmental budget allocations
Analyze even the largest datasets efficiently
Provide sub-second response time to queries, even if hundreds or thousands of individuals are using the application at the same time
Update data efficiently while protecting information integrity

ShowCase Essbase offers greater functionality than any other online analytical processing (OLAP) solution. When creating applications, your organization's project leaders can:

Include thousands of dimensions and attributes, with up to a million members per dimension
Build applications that automatically deliver important information such as “top sales territories” or “sales below plan” by using metric filtering or rank analysis
Modify applications to reflect changes in business structures and conditions
Define multiple variance and exception levels
Set alerts and send notifications automatically when certain levels are exceeded

This release makes available to iSeries users the new and enhanced capabilities of Essbase 7.1. These capabilities include:

The Aggregate Storage Option, which provides new ways to store and calculate data
Essbase Administration Services, a new graphical interface that makes it easier for your staff to develop and administer analytic applications
Visual Explorer, a new, separately priced feature that displays multiple dimensions of data graphically
Support for basic data mining
Enhancements to Essbase Integration Services, a separately licensed component that enables your staff to integrate data or metadata from multiple data sources
Support for MDX, a powerful data manipulation language similar to SQL

Read more details about what's new with ShowCase Suite 7.0.

For simpler, easier administration, ShowCase Essbase takes full advantage of the capabilities of the iSeries platform. There are also several ShowCase Essbase optional features that add value to the solution.

Learn more about system requirements for the ShowCase Suite.

To learn more about how you can benefit from the ShowCase Suite, contact an SPSS sales representative.

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