11.2 Using the Alphablox client interface Alphablox is an application development platform for rapidly building and deploying custom analytic solutions across an enterprise. Alphablox applications run as J2EE-compliant applications in an application server and are accessed using a web browser. Alphablox works with Cubing Services to provide OLAP access to data directly from InfoSphere Warehouse. Alphablox can access and interact with Cubing Services and DB2. In this section we show how Alphablox can be used to connect to a Cubing Services multidimensional data source and query it using the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language. 11.2.1 Alphablox overview Alphablox provides the ability to create rapidly custom, Web-based applications that fit into the corporate infrastructure and have the ability to reach a wide range of users. Applications built with the Alphablox platform run in standard web browsers. To