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Seagate Offering Analyzes Multidimensional Data
Crystal Analysis professional will let users extract and analyze data from OLAP systems
By Rick Whiting
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eagate Software Inc. wants to give businesses the same reporting and analysis capabilities for multidimensional data that it already offers for relational data. Last week, the company unveiled Crystal Analysis Professional for analyzing multidimensional data.
Seagate Software (part of Seagate Technology LLC) sells Crystal Reports for building reports that extract and analyze data from relational databases, and soon will ship Crystal Enterprise software for distributing reports based on that information. Crystal Analysis Professional will let customers build reports that extract and analyze multidimensional data from online analytical processing systems such as Hyperion Essbase and Seagate Holos, as well as from mainstream databases such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and IBM DB2 with built-in OLAP technology.
One strength of Crystal Analysis Professional is the way it's optimized for the OLAP server within Microsoft's SQL Server, says Nigel Pendse, an analyst with The OLAP Report. By shifting more data processing to Microsoft's OLAP server, rather than the client, Seagate speeds overall performance.
Sun Chemical Corp., a Fort Lee, N.J., manufacturer of inks, pigments, and dyes, is testing Crystal Analysis Professional for product profitability and market-share analysis using sales data stored in a SQL Server-based data warehouse. Stephen Kern, Sun Chemical's data warehousing and business intelligence director, says that he's impressed by the tool's ability to analyze as many as a dozen data dimensions.
Crystal Analysis Professional is scheduled to ship by midyear; pricing isn't set.
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