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The following is intended to outline our general product. ,
not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment todeliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not berelied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or
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Oracle Essbase 9x / 11x
, . .Director, Analytics | BI & EPM Global Business Unit
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Powered by Essbase
Essbase is a key technology for the EPM, OBI and
Fusion Platforms Essbase powers Hyperion Planning ss ase powers yper on ro ta ty an ost
Management
HFM HSF
Essbase is part of the OBI platform
A re ate navi ation re ortin
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Essbase R9000 thru R9311 Highlights
R9000 Everythings Included
R9310 Oracle Branding
up cate em er 64-bit First Class Port Smart View
r te- ac ASO Data Streaming Smart Space Gadgets
ASO Restructure & Export
Google OneBox
Oracle Secure Search
R9300 64-bit AIX, Solaris, Xeon, and
O teron
R9311 BSO to ASO Partitions
MaxL Encryption ASO Time Intelligence BSO Subset Export
Smart View Classic XL Add-in
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Essbase 11.1.1.1 Highlights
Varying Attributes
Text/ Date measures Backup/ recovery, transaction logging
Trickle-feeding
Write-back to level 0 art a ata c ear Target of a partition
Essbase Studio first release Replace EIS/ EAS data prep editor, XOLAP
Improved installation
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The power of ASO Streams
Trickle-feed into a persisted ASO cube
Cube is online through the trickle-feed process Read & Write can co-exist with trickle-feed n as a s e ene t you can now oa concurrent y
into ASO!
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Lets see how this happens
Time
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Merge and Trickle
Merge Merge
Time
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XOLAP in a partitioned environment
Using XOLAP with transparent partitioning
ASO
RDBMS
XOLAPBSO
Planning/Modeling? Actuals from Teradata/Oracle?
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Varying Attributes - Perspectives
Reality perspective
March perspective
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Text and date measures
Use text and dates as measures in multidimensional
reporting Perform analysis based on text or date measures ew types o reports an ana ys s
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Backup/ recovery, transaction logging and replay
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Several 11x Features Drive Towards Near-
Trickle Feeds (ASO)
Rapidly add new data to an existing cube No need to bring cube offline for loading or aggregating
XOLAP Ability to define a cube that retrieves from relational at Query
Time Useful when needing real time Point-of-Sale data as part of
overall cube
Can merge (Via ASO partitioning) with other cubes, such asPlanning or custom
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Oracle Essbase Release Timeline
11.1.1.3
Fusion
11.1.1.2
Localization
11.1.1.1 11.1.2.0
Fusion Apps Several New
11.x.x.x
TBDnanc a s
integration Drill back
Minor release
ug xes Minor release
ntegrat on Financials,Projects, CRM
EnterpriseReadiness
Features Major release
Major releaseAvailable Now
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Zola Release Highlights - Essbase. . .
Focused on two main pieces of functionality
Essbase ERPI Integration Data and Metadata Loading r - ac
Extending Graphical Calculation capabilities toEssbase A lications Calc Mana er
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ERP Integration Suite
Part of Financial Data Quality Management
integration between ERPs and EPM/BI applications Supports inbound data and metadata with drill-back Classic and EPMA managed applications Supported by Planning, HFM and Essbase
- ,View and Financial Reports
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Unified Calculation Management
Calculation Manager
Planning, Financial Managementand Essbase
understanding of calculationprocess
- applications
Central repository of all
Lowers the barrier for users todefine and maintain business
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Talleyrand Release Highlights - Essbase. .
Major Release
Key deliverable for Fusion Applications Enterprise Readiness
Fusion Middleware Support Reliability, Performance, and Security
Module Innovation Enhanced Usability
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New features Essbase 11.1.2 (Talleyrand)
Fusion Applications/ Middleware EPM/Essbase us on nanc a s epor ng
Custom calcs/ allocations Write-back to GL
Securit inte ration
Improve LCM features
Outline Compare Project Names
Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Single Sign-on
Oracle Diagnostic Logging
Accessibility (508) Improved Security Sync Essbase/ EAS/ APS Functional Enh
Usernames (length/ chars) Clustering and Failover (OPMN) MaxL error codes
MDX from MaxL (APS) ASO Formula Dialog (EAS)
Studio Usability and Functional Enh
Support deploy from EPMA OBI integration
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Fusion Application Support
Essbase plays a major role as aninfrastructure/Fusion middleware technology for theFusion Applications (avail CY2010)
, , , Faceless integrated through ADF and into the
a lications directl Work being done will benefit non-Fusion apps
customers as well
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Allocations/Custom Calculations on ASO
Supports pre-defined Allocation Function toallocate a value to a range of members in anASO application
an ASO application
Results are stored in the cube i.e. slice forsubsequent querying and/or calculations
First entry into procedural calculations for ASO
Exposed through API, MaxL
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Failover
Based on Oracle Process Monitoringand Notification (OPMN) Active-passive failover
startup/ shutdown
Agent will start/ stop Essbase server ns a e an con gure rouginstall/config
Shared storage
Read-write supported to shared disk
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Enterprise Readiness
Performance Management Packs for OEM Monitoring of EPM processes Deployment Topology System Status Dashboards
Key Metrics identified Self-Service Diagnostics and Logging
Based on ODL Framework Centralized Lo in Error identification and resolution
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Enhanced EPM Architect Support
Data sync support for ASO
Named Gen & Levels Additional properties Dynamic Time Series BSO
Text/Date Measures support em er eve ncremen aDeployment
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Other Features Worth Noting
Optimized Security Sync
MDX Formula Editor Focused on creating optimized MDX for member
Tighter integration with OBI Initial steps to seamless integration of Essbase and
OBI Server Allows Studio to operated against the OBI logical
layer
Web Services for Essbase Part of EPM Web Services Project . . _
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Data Retrieval via PL/SQL Stored Procedure
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getEssbaseData() procedure exploits
1. Convert the ESSBASE_INPUT data structure into an MDXuery.
2. To communicate with Provider Services: Use Oracles _
contains the MDX query and receive the response.
_ & DBMS_XMLDOM for XML parsing of response received fromProvider.
4. Extract the data from the parsed XML/A response and load intothe ESSBASE_RESULTSET data structure.
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