Software helps manage business performance.
Press Release Summary:
DB2 OLAP Server v8.2 provides shared approach to business intelligence and performance management. OLAP Server Administration Services facilitates administration tasks and life-cycle management. OLAP Server Deployment Services enable deployment of business intelligence solutions to large user communities in distributed environments. OLAP Server Spreadsheet Services offers intuitive, thin-client spreadsheet environment for OLAP analysis with DB2 OLAP Server through integration into Excel.
Original Press Release:
DB2 OLAP Server V8.2 Delivers Powerful Capabilities Built on Essbase V7.1 Technology
Overview
The DB2 OLAP Server product family delivers services to provide
insightful information to stakeholders responsible for managing business performance. A shared approach to business intelligence and performance management is key to informed decision making and thus the success of your company. The DB2 OLAP Server product family provides the critical foundation
technology that creates the shared information you need to manage your business. Version 8.2 brings you powerful capabilities and support on Linux across the product family.
DB2 OLAP Server is the engine that provides the analytical processing power, scalability, performance, manageability, and security needed for delivering information to a broad class of users. Version 8.2 delivers significant and exciting enhancements including massive dimensional scalability and reduction in aggregation time for sparse databases; the ability to more easily engage in global development; greater flexibility in accessing multidimensional data and metadata;
the ability to more easily customize the end-user experience; the ability to quickly zoom in on relevant portions of the cube; and performance and administration enhancements.
DB2 OLAP Server Administration Services, a robust, GUI component
of DB2 OLAP Server, provides rich capabilities to make administration tasks and comprehensive life-cycle management easy to perform. Version 8.2 delivers key enhancements to support the new DB2 OLAP Server capabilities; an expanded set of deployment options with support for WebSphere, WebLogic, DB2 UDB and Oracle; richer interfaces to manage your outlines; easier monitoring and charting of information from a log view; a new MDX Script Editor; and many other improvements that collectively ease administration activities.
DB2 OLAP Integration Server, an option of DB2 OLAP Server, is a suite of graphical tools and data integration services that
dramatically reduce the cost of creating, deploying, and managing tailored DB2 OLAP Server applications, while providing a vital link to detailed data stored in relational databases. Version 8.2 delivers key improvements including support for the new DB2 OLAP Server capabilities; integration with DB2 Cube Views; drill-through reporting enhancements; hybrid analysis enhancements; shared user-defined members; and incremental loads.
DB2 OLAP Server Deployment Services, a component of DB2 OLAP
Server, provides a set of middle-tier services that enable broad
deployment of business intelligence solutions to large user communities in distributed environments by extending the scalability, reliability, and availability of analytic applications. Version 8.2 delivers significant enhancements including connection pooling; several new Java APIs for custom-defined functions and for managing security access privileges; querying using MDX; Veritas Cluster Server on Windows; and support for the new DB2 OLAP Server capabilities.
DB2 OLAP Server Spreadsheet Services provides a highly intuitive, user-friendly, thin-client spreadsheet environment for OLAP analysis with DB2 OLAP Server through integration into Excel. Enhancements in Version 8.2 include an improved query designer; an improved look and feel throughout the product; enhanced member selection dialog box; lightweight installation for client software; hybrid analysis support; support for current and many new VBA functions; and support for the new DB2 OLAP server capabilities.
At a glance
DB2 OLAP Server lets you extract more value out of your operational, transactional, and Business Intelligence data. Improvements in this release of DB2 OLAP Server including...
o Aggregate Storage Option (ASO) support for sparse data
o Enhanced analytical processing
o Improved scalability and performance
o Easier administration and maintenance
o Improved deployment
o Improved interfaces
o Enhanced platform coverage
...allow your business to stay fast, focused, and flexible, while ensuring that your IT infrastructure remains streamlined and connected to improvements in business results.
Key prerequisites
For information about all hardware and software prerequisites and systems supported, refer to the Hardware requirements and
Software requirements sections.
Planned availability dates
o Globalized, English-only version
- July 30, 2004 (for electronic download)
- August 27, 2004 (physically available)
o Fully localized version
- September 30, 2004 (for electronic download)
- November 12, 2004 (physically available)
