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• Share and leverage datasets optimized for exploration and analysis within your business.

Robust analysis tools

• Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the "why" behind an event or action to improve business performance.
• Analyze what's driving your business with data organized in logical categories such as fiscal periods, sales regions and product groups.
• Move from summary level to transaction level detail, or from one PowerCube to another, to find exactly the information you are looking for.
• Sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series lets you analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months and other critical measures.

Multi-dimensional modeling capabilities

• Support for all data sources.
• Comprehensive logging and check points.
• Automated cube builds.
• Centralized security and administration provide optimal manageability for IT.
• Time-dependent processing.
• Alternate drill paths.
• Distinct category counts.
• Time-based partitioned PowerCubes create a flexible design environment that streamlines development and enhances ROI.

Easy to use

• Explore large complex data sets using drag-and-drop techniques. Drill down through increasing levels of detail and view by different dimensions such as sales per region or by product.
• View and analyze data relationships graphically and change displays easily. End-users can easily drill down, rank, sort, forecast and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes and effects.
• A common XML-based report format means that a report can be opened in whatever client suits a user's needs.
• User-friendly interface makes multidimensional analysis simple for all users, regardless of their business or technical level.
• Windows, Web and Excel clients let users work within familiar environments to maximize ROI and reduce training costs.
• Import and manipulate BI content in Microsoft Office.

Easy to deploy

• Convert one billion consolidated rows and two million categories from multiple data sources into compact PowerCubes ready for analysis.
• Seamless integration with third-party cubes and OLAP servers lets you maximize return on Oracle, Microsoft, SAP BW and IBM resources you already own, as well as dimensionally modeled relational sources.
• Process and summarize data in the application layer and only return results at a summary level.