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Been using ESSBASE and Showcase on the iSeries for years. Definitely would
recommend, no large issues. Version 7 of Showcase was just GA'd and it has
a lot of cool stuff in it.
In my mind the power behind the iSeries, Showcase, and ESSBase is that it
is all integrated under one vendor and platform. Very easy to manage.
SPSS Significantly Upgrades Business Intelligence Components of ShowCase®
Suite
Provides Greater Insight into Key Business Operations
SPSS, a worldwide provider of predictive analytics software, unveiled
significantly upgraded versions of the business intelligence components
within ShowCase® Suite 7.0. SPSS’ ShowCase Suite is the leading business
intelligence and data mining solution for organizations using the IBM®
eServer iSeries™ (AS/400®) computing platform.
SPSS’ ShowCase Suite 7.0 includes major enhancements to ShowCase Essbase®,
ShowCase Analyzer™ , and ShowCase Enterprise Reporting™ . These
enhancements strengthen an organization’s ability to create, implement, and
manage multiple analytic applications and to provide greater insight into
critical business operations, such as financial conditions, merchandising,
production, supply chain operations, marketing, and customer relationship
management (CRM).
Praise for SPSS’ ShowCase Suite 7.0
“With the increased scalability of SPSS' new ShowCase Essbase, we will
refresh information daily, rather than weekly, even after going through
another doubling of the number of routes we have servicing stores. We also
can now include an additional year of data for our weekly sales analysis so
we can spot trends more effectively,” said Dan Klunk, Data Warehouse
Specialist of Snyder’s of Hanover. “SPSS will clearly help our bottom line
and make us a more proactive, customer responsive company.”
Enhanced Capabilities of SPSS’ ShowCase Suite 7.0
With ShowCase Suite 7.0, Hyperion Solutions’ Essbase 7X becomes available
on the IBM® eServer iSeries™. This release offers significant new and
enhanced capabilities. An organization can:
· Provide highly detailed business information to thousands of people
throughout its enterprise—and still achieve sub-second query-response
times.
· Reduce significantly the time it takes to load and calculate
multi-dimensional databases or “cubes.”
· Build cubes with many more dimensions than it could before, without
taxing the IT infrastructure or compromising response times for users.
· Explore complex multidimensional data easily, and in a variety of
ways, through the new, optional Hyperion Visual Explorer feature.
· Conduct basic data mining of multidimensional data with built-in
clustering, correlation, and association algorithms. More comprehensive
advanced analysis capabilities are provided in the iSeries version of
Clementine®, SPSS’ leading data mining work bench.
· Use a new graphical interface to help development staff to be more
productive in creating complex environments and calculations, and help
system administrators become more efficient in loading, calculating,
and monitoring Essbase cubes.
SPSS has also enhanced ShowCase Analyzer, which enables internal staff and
even external channel or business partners to view graphical reports
through a Web browser. With this release, report designers can create
highly customized reports more easily and business users can access and
print them more quickly. For greater insight into information, users can
move smoothly between views of multi-dimensional and relational databases.
The Enterprise Reporting component of the ShowCase Suite supports efficient
and cost-effective distribution of reports enterprise-wide. Among the
significant benefits:
· Spreadsheets created with the Query “Excel add-ins” can be published
to the Enterprise Reporting repository and opened and refreshed in a
browser. Customers will save license fees while avoiding the costs
associates with maintaining client software and the time-consuming errors
associated with manually re-keying data into spreadsheets.
· Administrators can c entralize control of the actions that
individuals or groups can take through enhanced role-based security. They
can specify for example, whether users can run or build composite
documents, publish content to a repository, schedule recurring reports, run
reports dynamically, or simply view reports.
· Report designers can create “composite” documents containing multiple
reports and charts, and now reports containing charts can be linked to
other reports. This means users can see summarized data in an
easy-to-understand chart and then, if interested, drill down to see more
detailed information.
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Hello, I am seeking info on Essbase used on the Iseries, particularly w/
SHowcase. Would you reccommend this product? are there any huge issue to be
aware of. Have you also used Essbase on other platforms for comparison?(See
attached file: ATT56899.txt)
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