Essbase provides unique multi-user read and write capabilities, including data update and multi-user recalculation. Business users with front-end tools can write data back to a server and recalculate the data on a server using calculation scripts—key functionality to support sophisticated modeling and planning applications.
The robust, multilevel security model provides server-, database-, and cell-level security. Full control of data access, views, and write capabilities are managed through administration. EPM System security allows you to integrate with a variety of external user directories including LDAP-enabled directories such as Oracle Internet Directory and Microsoft Active Directory, and relational databases.