A Walk Through the Essbase Cloud - eCapital Advisors · • Less expensive to have Essbase in the...

A Walk Through the

Essbase Cloud

Bob Usset

Director, Oracle EPM

April 17th, 2019

4/18/2019 © 2019 eCapital Advisors, LLC.

Agenda

• Flavors of OAC

• Licensing

• How does ____ work?

• UI overview

• Data/Dim Loads, Calcs

• Smart View

• SQL connectivity

• Automation

• New, OAC-only features

• Cube Designer

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Editions & Licensing

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Flavors of OAC

• Oracle Managed

• Simplified setup of your environment

• Less expensive to have Essbase in the cloud (hour per hour)

• Purpose is to stand up, create, throw away

• No patching existing cubes

• No stopping environment

• Customer Managed

• Needs to setup database and storage

• More expensive compared to Oracle Managed (hour per hour)

• Ability to stop services (reduce cost)

• Patch existing applications


Backup and Patching

• Backups

• LCM application snapshots

• Total service backups

• Patching

• Only available to patch environment with active application in customer managed

• Simple… precheck button, apply patch button


OAC: Standard


OAC: Essbase


OAC: Enterprise


Licensing & Costs

• Licensing is per processor, per hour

• Unlimited users

• Unlimited apps

• There are charges for

• Processor

• Storage ($0.04 GB/month)

• Outbound Data Transfer ($0.10 GB/month)



Infrastructure Options


Infrastructure Options

• VPN

• Most common option

• Setup connection between on-prem

data center and Oracle cloud

• Enables configuration and connection with

on-prem data

• FastConnect

• Establish a direct connection between op-prem and Oracle Cloud

• Used when large data transfers are needed

• Enables configuration and connection with

on-prem data


ETL & DBaaS

• Push data to OAC database using standard ETL tools

• Ability to manipulate data in Database as needed

• Load Essbase cubes Oracle Cloud Database


Data Sync Utility

• Load of on-prem data to OAC (SQL stores, comma delimited file)

• Installed on-prem

• Connections for sources and targets setup in Data Sync


How do I ___ in the Cloud?


An overview of the UI

• JET versus Classic

• Context specific

• Buttons/functions

• Apps, DBs, Outlines

• Outline editor

• Inspect = view/edit properties


Accessing the Outline








Calc Scripts


Calc Scripts


Rules (Load Rules)


Rules (Load Rules)


Rules (Load Rules)


Rules (Load Rules)


Data Rule


Smart View Connectivity


Automation Options

• Essbase CLI

• Original tool used for updating Essbase applications

• Free

• Installed on-prem, scripts will be saved in on-prem instance for scheduling

• MaxL Client

• New functionality

• Free

• Installed on-prem, scripts will be saved in on-prem instance for scheduling

• This scripts will be very similar to the script used for on-prem for Essbase builds


Automation Options

• Essbase CLI

• MaxL Client


Cube Designer - Add-In

• Create and manage application using Excel

• Installed like Smart View


Cube Designer - Raw Data


Cube Designer - Job Console


Excel Format


Excel Application Format


Excel Application Format


Excel Application Format - Dimensions


Build/Update Cube


Build/Update Cube


Excel Application Format - Calcs



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