1. A stand-alone data aggregation server comprising: an aggregation engine that is integrated with a multidimensional datastore and an interface; the aggregation engine performing data aggregation operations on data loaded from a database and storing the resultant aggregated data in the multidimensional datastore; and the interface receiving requests communicated from any one of a plurality of different computing systems, accessing the aggregation engine to retrieve from the multidimensional datastore aggregated data pertaining to said requests, and communicating the aggregated data corresponding to said requests to said one computing system that communicated said requests.