ShowCase OLAP Solution

Enable Informed Decisions and Effective Action

Your organization captures and stores a vast amount of critical information about your customers, products, partners, and more. But to get true insight from that data, you need the ability to examine it from different perspectives and explore it in detail.

The ShowCase Suite from SPSS helps you do that with ShowCase Essbase® and ShowCase Analyzer™. These solutions bring powerful analytical and reporting capabilities to organizations that use the IBM® System i™ computing platform—enabling you to efficiently use existing information to improve any aspect of your operations.

Gain the insight you need

ShowCase Essbase is a powerful online analytical processing solution (OLAP) that enables you to leverage information you already have in new and more powerful ways. You can use it to improve your understanding of customer profitability, product profitability, product quality, and many other aspects of your operations.

With ShowCase Essbase, you can:

Organize information from different sources to eliminate information "silos" and the resulting inconsistencies and added costs
Support the analytical needs of multiple functional areas from a single platform
Carry out complex analyses, such as multi-currency financial translations and inter-departmental budget allocations
Analyze even the largest datasets efficiently
Provide sub-second response time to queries, even if hundreds or thousands of individuals are using the application at the same time
Update data efficiently while protecting information integrity

ShowCase Essbase offers greater functionality than any other OLAP solution. When creating applications, your organization's project leaders can:

Include thousands of dimensions and attributes, with up to a million members per dimension
Build applications that automatically deliver important information such as “top sales territories” or “sales below plan” by using metric filtering or rank analysis
Modify applications to reflect changes in business structures and conditions
Define multiple variance and exception levels
Set alerts and send notifications automatically when certain levels are exceeded

For simpler, easier administration, ShowCase Essbase takes full advantage of the capabilities of the System i platform. There are also many additional ShowCase Essbase features that add value to the solution.

Interact with graphic views of data

With ShowCase Analyzer, your organization’s business users can view and interact with customized reports through a Web browser to help them make the right decisions quickly.

ShowCase Analyzer enables your organization to leverage all the information contained in Essbase, as well as information from relational databases.

Using Analyzer, you can:

Rank, filter, and sort data according to a number of variables or "dimensions"
Present information in a variety of graphic formats
Explore both summarized and detailed data in a variety of ways
Highlight exceptions or variances that point either to problems or opportunities
Print Analyzer reports or include them in documents, presentations, or Web pages

Because ShowCase Analyzer is browser-based, it can be deployed easily and cost effectively throughout your organization. Through a Web browser, system administrators can manage access, protect database security, and even monitor the server. They can also manage users’ roles and capabilities and provide a choice of authentication options. This allows for enhanced security, as well as greater flexibility and efficiency in distributing information.

See what’s new in ShowCase Suite 8.0

Learn more about system requirements for the ShowCase Suite.

To learn more about how you can benefit from the ShowCase Suite, contact an SPSS sales representative.

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Enable Informed Decisions and Effective Action

Gain the insight you need

Interact with graphic views of data