The Web Interactive Edition supports browsing dimensions and the ability to write back edited data to the OLAP server. Information Center is a Java server-based information backbone that delivers content, manages sessions, and provides security and data access. It can scale to several CPUs to provide load balancing. Viador provides a Java interface for both Express and Essbase. It also has a gateway that connects to Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, Oracle, IBM DB2, White Light, Hyperion Essbase, and Oracle Express.
Users can also download cubes for offline analysis.
The suite provides a managed reporting environment that supports OLAP navigation. Then the software can project the hierarchy onto different database types without having to transform the database into a multidimensional or star schema format. Comshare specializes in performance analysis, and its Commander DecisionWeb product has a three-tier architecture that uses application servers and Java clients. Commander DecisionWeb extends Comshare's OLAP capabilities to Java-enabled Web browsers. The application server does server-based calculations and notifies clients of changes in the database.