Interactive user-friendly interface for wide range of users
Contour OLAPBrowser offers easy to use user-friendly interface. Every user familiar with Internet Explorer and a spreadsheet editor can learn OLAPBrowser in 30 minutes.
Fast deployment, zero administration, unlimited scalability
OLAPBrowser does not need any specific server. Users should just install the program to work with microcubes. Microcubes can be created once and scheduled for regular update, stored anywhere and do not require any maintenance at all. Thousands of users can view one microcube at the same time because OLAPBrowser performs all calculation at client side.
Interactive data analysis and reporting with sub-second response times
Contour OLAPBrowser allows users to interactively analyze data, build and print reports by clicking and drag&dropping with sub-second response times. Users can dynamically interact with data: move rows and columns, filter data, drill-down, roll-up, pivot table and get all possible reports from one dataset. Contour OLAPBrowser makes millions of calculations simultaneously and shows new subtotals and totals instantly.
Information access flexibility
OLAPBrowser can open microcubes across the corporate LAN, WAN, Web, and microcubes received by e-mail. Users can type the URL of a microcube in the address field of OLAPBrowser, or click on a link to a microcube placed on a web server and view corporate or public reports. Users can open a microcube from a file server or local directory, and send or receive microcubes by email. So IT-managers can create very simple and flexible enterprise reporting systems.
Microcube - a universal mobile container of interactive reports
OLAPBrowser gets data and reports views from Contour microcubes. Contour microcube is a new concept of multidimensional database. It stores not only extremely compressed data but all reports definitions in a single file. So any application powered with ContourCube can generate microcubes and define report layouts and many other applications will be able to view and print those reports. OLAPBrowser can show reports generated by ERP, CRM or any other 3rd party systems with ContourCube embedded, by Contour CubeMaker and by OLAPBrowser itself.
Very compact storage, very fast data loading
Microcubes store data in a very compact form. Source data loaded into microcube is compressed by 90% up to 99.9%, so you can publish this file to web, send it by e-mail and save it on your laptop. Imagine that data for all sales of your company for this year can be stored in one single file of 1 or 2 MB. You can save this file at your mobile PC and work with it anywhere. That is why Contour OLAPBrowser loads microcubes very fast. You have only to wait for a second to see a report that aggregates hundreds of thousand records from the source database.
Rich analysis, data manipulation and interactive reporting capabilities
Contour OLAPBrowser has many features for data manipulation using advanced OLAP technology. It allows to dynamically drill down through the data, provides many built-in functions for calculations on measures. Easy to use and powerful Formula Language dynamically performs custom calculations.
High quality data visualization
OLAPBrowser allows you to rapidly set colors, fonts, header & footer, create charts for better understanding of data. Users can create new reports and change layout of exiting reports, add and remove calculated fields. Conditional styles gathered in cascaded stylesheets allow highlighting of important values, so users get data in a nice and clear form.
Reports distribution technology
Contour OLAPBrowser provides ready to use powerful and affordable technology for delivering reports to a wide range of users through extranet, intranet, internet and email.
There are two editions of Contour OLAPBrowser for users with different requirements:
Analyzer
For data access, advanced analysis and interactive reporting, creating new microcubes and reports.
Explorer
For data access, analysis and interactive reporting.