Why ContourCube?

The five advantages that differ ContourCube from other OLAP tools and make it best choice among competing products are: Simplicity and low price The developer can embed OLAP functionality into her system just in a couple of days. Users can adopt its intuitive interface in half an hour. Regardless of number of users its price remains constant. High performance In internal OLAP benchmark results, data volumes processed by ContourCube are ten times as much as those processed by other OLAP components. Moreover, up to certain volumes, ContourCube operates even more quickly than OLAP server does. There are no architectural constraints in ContourCube, more RAM and higher CPU clock rate increase its capabilities. Rich analytical capability ContourCube encompasses not only standard algorithms, such as Sum and Average functions, but also more than a dozen of statistics functions, such as Dispersion, Average Deviation, to name but a few. Multidimensional sorting, true multidimensional ranking, and Last algorithm expand usage of OLAP tool and make data presentation much more clear and useful. New concept of mobile microcube The MOLAP technology provided by ContourCube significantly differs from traditional conceptions. By replacing preliminary aggregation with special indexing and compressing data into saved file, ContourCube microcube saves data as compactly as possible, thus enabling calculations on fly and reducing microcube’s volume. As a result, large databases can be published on Web, delivered by email. Besides, ContourCube microcube saves not only data but also metadata that defines both structure of a multidimensional database, calculation algorithms and all details of end-user’s interface. Therefore, microcube can be considered a full-fledged analytical application that can be presented and modified by various programs equipped with ContourCube. This is similar to an Excel book containing both data and its interface definition or how a jpeg-file can be viewed through different applications. Because ContourCube can read microcube’s data via http protocol, microcubes can be used for publishing any financial and statistical data via Internet.

ContourCube home site: http://www.ContourComponents.com ContourCube (c) 2002 Intersoft Lab

* Drive bays

The minimum drive bay requirement is; one 5.25 inch external bay, one 3.5 inch external bay; and one 3.5 inch internal bay. This allows you install a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive, and a hard disk drive.

However, I would recommend purchasing a case with; two 5.25 inch external bays, one 3.5 inch external bay; and two 3.5 inch internal bays. This gives you a little extra expansion capacity.

* Side Panel

Get a case with a removable side panel. This gives you easy access to inside of case. Some cases come with a one piece inverted U shaped cover. It’s a real pain to wrestle this type of cover into place.

* Floppy disk slot

I prefer to avoid cases with a built-in floppy disk slot. With RW-CD’s becoming more common, floppy disks days could be numbered. When they become obsolete you will be stuck with a funny slot on front of your computer.

* Beige case

Avoid cases that are not standard beige color. Off shelf floppy drives and CD Drives only come in beige, and it looks nicer if they match case.

* Desk-top or tower case

I don’t think you can find a desk-top style case today. If you do find one, consider amount of desk area case will cover. You will most likely have to place your monitor on top of case. If you have a heavy 19 inch CRT monitor, make sure case is constructed solidly enough to support monitor.

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