Overview of Oracle Essbase

Essbase is a revolutionary database management system which allows the users to build complex analytic applications on multidimensional database platform. This MDBMS (Multidimensional Database Management System) Essbase stands for Extended Spread Sheet data Base is known for accuracy and fastness in conducting analytic process.

Why Essbase?

Today's business world is completely aware of the benefits and advantages of Information Analysis. With a clear insight of the past, present and future evolvement of the business, Information analysis had become one of the essentials for success and growth of businesses. But, finding the best platform to conduct information analysis is a challenging one. Most of the businesses tend to generate huge transactions and stores them in spreadsheet fragments. Since the data is stored and managed as separate spreadsheet files, there are chances for file duplication, corruption, user-errors etc. This becomes a very big headache for companies during statutory reporting and government inspections. Oracle Essbase is intended to solve these issues effectively. As its name suggests, the extended spreadsheet database is supplied by the Essbase platform with functionalities to manage them effectively.

With the help of Essbase, the businesses can structure their data in accordance with their business analysis and concepts. Also, different kinds of perspectives can be analyzed in analysis with the help of Oracle Essbase easily.

Architecture of Essbase

The architecture of Essbase is comprised of three tiers. They are Client Tier, Database Tier and Middle Tier.

Client Tier

This tier contains interactive applications like Essbase Smart View and Essbase Administration Console installed at the client end.

Database Tier

This tier in Essbase architecture provides Essbase Server to store all the Essbase databases. The tier also contains relational databases that are supporting Essbase environment.

Middle Tier

It bridges communication and data transfer between the above two tier, Database Tier and Client Tier.