Patent ID: 7444342

Claim:
A system for accessing data and information stored in at least one multi-dimensional database, the system comprising: a mobile integration engine application services component for reading and translating the accessed data and information, and for creating markup language describing the accessed data and information for presentation to a web-enabled application; wherein the accessed data and information including data and information relating to critical business metrics and data relational rules that govern the relationship of the data, and for presenting the accessed data and information to the web-enabled application; and the stored data and information are arranged in a plurality of dimensions, each of the plurality of dimensions having at least one child level representing a measure of the dimension, wherein the mobile integration engine application services component determines whether the measure of a first dimension is associated with any other of the plurality of dimensions, and wherein the orthogonal drill mechanism creates a drill-across path from the at least one child level of the first dimension to the child level representing the measure of each of the other dimensions if it is determined that the measure is associated with the other dimension, the drill-across path allowing navigation between the at least one child level of the first dimension and the child level of each of the other dimensions.