In addition, ARM supports Provision of decision making and planning methodologies through structured question and answer interactions. ARM is dramatically different than most tools in the business intelligence space in that it provides an integrated solution that has been end-userized. It allows rapid construction of repositories, budgets and models without database design and it can be changed on the fly. ARM scales to handle very large systems for modeling, information repositories, activity based costing models and profitability analysis. Information vs. Data Warehousing ARM could be thought of as providing information warehousing rather than data warehousing.
Many data warehouses are only capable of providing raw data.
ARM in contrast represent data, relationships between data, modeling and consolidation relationships, cost allocation relationships and any type of relationship that an organization is interested in representing. ARM's superior ability to track relationships allows organizations to develop information warehousing incrementally and avoid long, costly and error prone design stages. ARM can support more dimensions than any OLAP tool. Its node and link metaphor that underlies the representation can have an almost unlimited number of links. ARM's intelligent architecture can manage extremely large volumes of information spread across multiple servers.