Essbase

Essbase is the business analysis server technology that provides an environment for rapid development of custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. For example, Essbase enables line-of-business personnel to develop and manage analytic applications that model complex scenarios, forecast business trends, and perform “what-if” analyses. Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, for large data sets, and for complex business models. It is hot-pluggable across any data source.

Administration Services is the cross-platform administration tool for Essbase. It consists of Administration Server (a Java middle-tier server), and Essbase Administration Services Console.

Business Rules, which is installed and configured as part of Administration Services, guides users through the creation, execution, and management of business rules on the Essbase Server component of Essbase. Business Rules improves the response time to changing business application needs, shortens application development cycles, increases business user productivity, improves reuse of application components, and increases the overall return on analytic application investments.

Classic Planning works with Business Rules.

Integration Services provides a suite of graphical tools that can be used to create OLAP models, OLAP metaoutlines, and Essbase databases.

Provider Services is a middle-tier data source provider to the following products:

The software supports highly concurrent analytical scenarios and provides scalability and reliability in a distributed Web-enabled enterprise environment.

Essbase Studio consolidates cube-construction activities into one interface, enabling consistent performance for data load and outline build.