 Oracle Essbase
Oracle Essbase is an OLAP (Online
Analytical Processing) Server that provides an environment for
deploying pre-packaged applications or developing custom analytic and
enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase, along
with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, is part of the Oracle BI
Foundation.
With a rapid application
development environment, Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly
model complex business scenarios. Aside from its high scalability, a
key strength of Oracle Essbase lies in its ability to allow users to "write
back" to an application's data repository under security. This makes it
ideal for developing forward looking applications such as forecasting,
scenario modeling, and "what if" type analysis.
 With Oracle Essbase,
organizations define a dimensional view of their business—and
provide business users with new levels of self-sufficiency to access,
navigate, and gain actionable insight into critical business issues.
All of this through the various end-user tools for Oracle Essbase. For
example, Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office (Excel, PowerPoint,
Word, and Outlook), Oracle Essbase Visual Explorer, and Oracle BI Suite
Enterprise Edition Plus, including Dashboards, Answers, Hyperion
Interactive Reporting, Hyperion Web Analysis, Hyperion Financial
Reporting, are some of the various Oracle tools that enable users to
interact with an Oracle Essbase application.
Oracle Essbase provides adaptable
data storage mechanisms for specific types of analytic and performance
management applications, thereby ensuring sub-second response times
regardless of the complexity of the analytics. For example, Block data
storage option (BSO) enables driver-based scenario modeling,
forecasting, and predictive analytic applications. Aggregate data
storage option (ASO) is optimized for massive sparse data sets,
supporting thousands of concurrent business users performing
sophisticated analyses at the speed of thought.
With the release of Oracle
Essbase 11 there is now stronger integration with the both Oracle
Fusion Middleware technologies as well as Oracle Database 11g. |
What's New
Oracle Essbase V.11.1.1 Release Highlights
- Single Environment to Build
and Maintain Oracle Essbase Cubes- Oracle Essbase Studio provides a single
interface for performing tasks related to data source modeling, cube
design, and construction of analytic applications. Seehttp://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/essbase/studio.html
- New Installation and
ConfigurationOracle Essbase is now integrated into the EPM System
Installer, to streamline the installation of all EPM products within
one tool.
- Lifecycle Management- Provides a consistent, repeatable way to move Oracle Essbase cubes,
applications, or individual artifacts between development, test and
production environments. Also supports auditing and application
comparisons.
- Varying Attributes- Support for storing data in attributes that vary over one or more
dimensions, and calculate measures over the varying attributes.
- Typed Measures-
extends the analytical capabilities of Oracle Essbase beyond numerical data to
support for two new data types: text measures and date measures.
Applications can now use text and dates as measures in multidimensional
reporting. Oracle Essbase applications can now support analysis based on text
or date measures.
- Backing Up and Restoring
Block Storage Option (BSO) Databases- enables administrators
to back up and restore databases more efficiently.
- Transaction Logging and
Replay- a backed-up database can be restored to a specified
post-backup state by replaying transactions related to data loads, data
updates, and calculation (procedural)_scripts.
- Clearing Data from Specific
Regions of Aggregate Storage (ASO) Databases- clear data from
a specific region and retain the data located in other regions, such as
historical data.
- Environment Variables Used
in the Calculation Scripts and Formulas of Block Storage Option (BSO)
Applications- supports use system environment variables as
placeholders for user-specific system settings in calculation scripts
and outline member formulas
- New Calculation Functions- The following calculation functions are new in this release:
- @ILANCESTORS—Returns the specified members and either all ancestors of the members or the ancestors up to a specified distance
- @ILDESCENDANTS—Returns the specified members and either all descendants of the members or the descendants down to a specified distance
- @LANCESTORS—Returns all ancestors of the specified members or the ancestors up to a specified distance
- @LDESCENDANTS—Returns all descendants of the specified members or the descendants down to a specified distance
- @NEXTSIBLING—Returns the next sibling (the sibling to the immediate right) of the specified member
- @PREVSIBLING—Returns the previous sibling (the sibling to the immediate left) of the specified member
- @SHIFTSIBLING—Returns the specified member or the nth sibling of the specified member
- Grid Expansion During Queries of Transparent Partitions- forces the expansion of the grid when transparent partitions are queried.
- Log Transaction Response Times from Transparent Partition Target- log transaction response times to monitor performance and satisfy service level agreements with user communities.
- Grid Size Limits for Aggregate Storage Transparent Partition Target- in ASO, specify the maximum size of the request grid and the response grid.
- Target of Partition- An ASO cube can be a target of a transparent or replicated partition for aggregation performance benefits.
- Batch Insertion As Data Is Exported to Relational Databases- supports direct INSERT when exporting data from Oracle Essbase into a relational database.
- Unicode Support for Aggregate Storage
- Query Cancel- cancels execution of processes such as data load, MaxL, MDX, Calc Script and others in Administration Services:
- Smart Search Administration Enhancements- Advanced configuration of Google OneBox and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) functionality including the ability to select report scripts, calc scripts for metadata indexing.
- MDX Enhancements- improvements to MDX time intelligence and member and hierarchy calculations.
- XOLAP - eXtending OLAP on Relational Database- support for Oracle Essbase cube that is transparently and dynamically sourced from an RDBMS. Greatly increases the potential size and scope of an Oracle Essbase cube through the use of a hybrid aggregation strategy. RDBMS friendly with fewer, simpler, more efficient SQL queries from Oracle Essbase to the RDBMS.
- Parallel SQL Data Loads- Supports up to 8 rules files via temporary load buffers.
- Oracle EBS Financials 11iSource Integration and Drill-back- when Oracle Essbase is used with Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, can now support drill back into Oracle EBS to see account balances and drill even further from there. This feature adds even further confidence in a customer's financial data.
- Better Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware- further adoption of key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide lowest total cost of ownership.
- Security: Integration with Oracle Access Manager, Oracle SSO, Desktop Kerberos Support, OID as the Native Provider
- Systems Management, integration with System Installer, Oracle Patch Installer, Lifecycle Management, Auto Deployment to Oracle Application Server
- Support for Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
What's New In Oracle Essbase Release 11.1?
Oracle Essbase, Release 9.3 Highlights
- Supports dates as first class objects
- Time dimension wizard automates creation of time dimension hierarchies within Oracle Essbase ASO databases
- Out of the box support for five predefined calendars: Gregorian, Manufacturing, ISO 8601, Fiscal, Retail
- Supports query hints for frequently used queries
- MDX optimizations:
- New functions enhance string processing
- Handling formulae that involve tuple/cross dimensional references
- Ranking tuples in sets
- Analysis of date hierarchies
- Supports high speed subset data export:
- Data slices (including dynamic calc members and aggregates) can be selected and exported lights out in a number of different formats including directly into relational tables
- This feature is calculation script enabled
- Expanded 64-bit support for AIX and Sun Solaris
- "Reference cubes" improve @XREF performance
- EXCLUDE / ENDEXCLUDE construct allows calculation scripts to specify which members NOT to calculate
- MAXL has been enhanced to provide a means to encrypting usernames and passwords in scripts
What's New in Hyperion Essbase Release9.3?
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