Varsha Bishnoi
Essbase is multidimensional database software that is optimized for planning, analysis, and management-reporting applications. Essbase uniquely blends an innovative technical design with an open, client-server architecture. The product enables you to extend decision support system beyond ad hoc queries and reports on historical performance to dynamic, operational systems that combine historical analysis and future planning. Hyperion Essbase is the industry-leading multi-dimensional online analytical processing server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. By leveraging its self-managed, rapid application development capabilities, business users can quickly model complex business scenarios. In this paper we see how Hyperion Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, large data sets, and complex business models.