Foreword
We have seen tremendous consolidation in the high-technology industry in recent years. Mergers and acquisitions strengthen the product offerings of a company, but they also sometimes bring together products that, on the face of it, seem either to duplicate a solution or to present no possibility of working together.
In 2007, Oracle already owned a well-respected, multidimensional solution— Oracle OLAP—when Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion Solutions brought another leading multidimensional product—Essbase—into the Oracle fold. Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase address the same business need: to provide business analysts with the tools they need to analyze and report on shared data in a way that is meaningful to people in the line of business. ...
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