Essbase offers many key advantages to help users develop effective multidimensional applications. Users can:
Design and manage applications using a graphical interface to control most server functions.
Quickly add dimensions, change calculations, and modify hierarchies to reflect new business developments. In addition, the dynamic dimension builder automatically defines and dynamically loads large amounts of data, including data from spreadsheets, flat files, and supported relational database tables directly into a database.
Define security for individuals and groups and customize views and retrieval procedures for each user without writing a program.