The Oracle Express Server is the basis for a number of powerful OLAP solutions. Oracle Express Server provides the potential for optimizing the corporate decision-making process with what-if analyses, prognoses, or by modeling business rules. Oracle Express Server in conjunction with Oracle relational database means: support of all users with all data, fast information processing, and optimum price/performance ratio.

Oracle Express Server organizes data in multidimensioal arrays -an array consi- sting of sales figures, for example, may be organized by product, customer, and time - optimizing them in this way for analytical purposes.

The server's openness is ensured with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Oracle Express Server is available on several platforms and can be used in a wide variety of configurations – from a stand-alone PC over client/server systems to multi-layered architectures.

• Data model optimised for OLAP solutions

• Powerful analytical functions

• Data organization matches user ratio

• Runs on all standard UNIX platforms and Microsoft or IBM operating systems

• Scalable from stand-alone PC to mainframe

• Flexible use in client/server and distributed environments

• Web-capable solution

• Simultaneous access to several multi-dimensional databases

• Supports stored procedures and user-defined functions

• Open access to Express Server via APIs

• Combination of relational and multidimensional data via APIs: SQL interface for any database meeting the ODBC standard and native SQL support for Oracle and various other RDBMS