BIA Workbench is a single product that helps in Planning, Sizing, Forecasting, Tracking, Simulating and Optimizing the BIA system.  It helps in maximizing the business value of the BIA and in increasing the ROI.

Planning: Identify the InfoCubes to be indexed on your BIA system for a future time period based on several parameters including report criticality, execution frequency and InfoCube size. 

Sizing: Under-sizing the BIA results in frequent re-sizing exercises which are expensive.  Over-sizing results in wasted funds.  Correct-sizing is important for decreasing the TCO. 

Forecasting: Information needs of an enterprise often change.  Moreover, growth is the nature of a data warehouse.  BIA Workbench helps in forecasting the blade consumption for a future date and for future information demands.

Tracking: Pro-active tracking of BIA blade utilization at the lowest grain is important for identifying InfoCubes that need re-indexing.  This helps in minimizing resource wastage on BIA, an expensive commodity.

Simulating: BIA Workbench comes with a powerful simulator that helps in computing and visualizing blade space for a future time period under several parameters including blade count, blade size, buffer size, InfoCube selections, and different flavors of InfoCube models designed by SmartCube.

Optimizing : BIA optimizes the blade utilization by timesharing the memory, remodeling the InfoCubes and selecting the optimal combination of InfoCubes to be indexed.