Spreadsheet Add-in User's Guide for Excel

Using Drill-Through

Essbase Integration Services is a product that works with Essbase and Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in for Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3. Essbase Integration Services is a suite of tools and data integration services that serves as a bridge between relational data sources and the Essbase server. Drill-through is one of these tools. Drill-through enables you to view and customize spreadsheet reports that display data retrieved from relational databases. Your organization must license Essbase Integration Services for you to use the drill-through tool.

This chapter provides the following information:

• A brief overview of the drill-through feature
• A description of the sample database, Microsoft Excel file, and drill-through report used for the tutorial
• A tutorial that guides you through tasks for using drill-through