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Oracle Essbase 9x / 11x

Dave Collins dave collins@oracle com Collins, dave.collins@oracle.com Director, Analytics | BI & EPM Global Business Unit

Powered by Essbase

Essbase is a key technology for the EPM, OBI and y gy Fusion Platforms Essbase powers Hyperion Planning E b Essbase powers H Hyperion P fit bilit and C t i Profitability d Cost Management The following modules integrate with Essbase
HFM HSF IOP/IMP

Essbase is part of the OBI platform

Aggregate navigation, reporting gg g g , p g

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Essbase R9000 thru R9311 Highlights

R9000
Everythings Included Duplicate Member D li t M b 64-bit First Class Port Smart View User Provisioning ASO Restructure & Export

R9310
Oracle Branding ASO Write-back W it b k ASO Data Streaming Smart Space Gadgets Smart Search

Google OneBox Oracle Secure Search R9311

BSO to ASO Partitions Office 2007 Support

R9300
64-bit AIX, Solaris, Xeon, and Opteron p MaxL Encryption ASO Time Intelligence BSO Subset Export

Smart View Classic XL Add-in

Essbase 11.1.1.1 Highlights

Varying Attributes Text/ Date measures Backup/ recovery, transaction logging ASO
Trickle-feeding Write-back to level 0 Partial data l P ti l d t clear Target of a partition

Essbase Studio first release

Replace EIS/ EAS data prep editor, XOLAP

Improved installation

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

A d as a side b And id benefit you can now l d concurrently fit load tl into ASO!

Lets see how this happens

Time

Merge and Trickle

Merge

Merge

Time

XOLAP in a partitioned environment

Using XOLAP with transparent partitioning

ASO

RDBMS

BSO
Planning/Modeling?

XOLAP
Actuals from Teradata/Oracle?

Varying Attributes - Perspectives

Reality perspective y

March perspective

July perspective

Text and date measures

Use text and dates as measures in multidimensional reporting Perform analysis based on text or date measures N New t types of reports and analysis f t d l i

Backup/ recovery, transaction logging and replay

Several 11x Features Drive Towards Near Real-time Analytics Real time Analytics
Trickle Feeds (ASO) ( )
Rapidly add new data to an existing cube No need to bring cube offline for loading or aggregating Aggregations happen in real time

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 as Planning or custom

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Oracle Essbase Release Timeline

11.1.1.1
Several New Features Major release

11.1.1.2
Localization B Fi Bug Fixes Minor release

11.1.1.3
Fusion Financials Fi i l integration Drill back Minor release

11.1.2.0
Fusion Apps integration i t ti Financials, Projects, CRM Enterprise Readiness Major release

11.x.x.x
TBD

Available Now

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Zola Release Highlights - Essbase 11.1.1.3 11 1 1 3

Focused on two main pieces of functionality y Essbase ERPI Integration
Data and Metadata Loading D ill B k Drill-Back

Extending Graphical Calculation capabilities to Essbase Applications ( pp (Calc Manager) g )

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ERP Integration Suite

Part of Financial Data Quality Management Provides a consistent approach for meta data and data 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 Consistent Drill-back from application web forms Smart forms, View and Financial Reports

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Unified Calculation Management Extended to Essbase and Classic EPM Apps Classic Calculation Manager
Single interface for Hyperion Planning, Financial Management and Essbase Graphical flow provides better understanding of calculation process Re-usable rules to share among applications Central repository of all calculation objects Lowers the barrier for users to define and maintain business logic

Talleyrand Release Highlights - Essbase 11.1.2 11 1 2

Major Release j Key deliverable for Fusion Applications Enterprise Readiness
Fusion Middleware Support Reliability, Performance, and Security

Support Fusion Applications Module Innovation Enhanced Usability

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New features Essbase 11.1.2 (Talleyrand)

Fusion Applications/ Middleware
Fusion Financials (G/L) Reporting Custom calcs/ allocations Write-back to GL Security integration Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Single Sign-on Oracle Diagnostic Logging Clustering and Failover (OPMN)

EPM/Essbase
Improve EPMA Essbase deployment Improve LCM features Outline Compare Project Names A Accessibility (508) ibilit Improved Security Sync Essbase/ EAS/ APS Functional Enh Usernames (length/ chars) 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 an y j infrastructure/Fusion middleware technology for the Fusion Applications (avail CY2010) Reporting and Analytics on G/L Projects CRM etc G/L, Projects, CRM, Faceless integrated through ADF and into the applications directly pp y 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 to allocate a value to a range of members in an ASO application Supports specific custom calculations against an ASO application Results are stored in the cube (i.e. slice) for ( ) subsequent querying and/or calculations First entry into procedural calculations for ASO models Exposed through API, MaxL Tentative support through Calc Manager
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Failover

Based on Oracle Process Monitoring g and Notification (OPMN)

Active-passive failover OPMN will detect Agent state and manage startup/ shutdown Agent will start/ stop Essbase server Installed and configured through EPM install/config Shared storage Read-write supported to shared disk

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Enterprise Readiness Monitoring and Logging

Performance Management Packs for OEM g
Monitoring of EPM processes Deployment Topology Threshold Management System Status Dashboards Key Metrics identified

Self-Service Diagnostics and Logging

Based on ODL Framework Centralized Logging Error identification and resolution

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Enhanced EPM Architect Support

Data sync support for ASO y Named Gen & Levels Additional properties Dynamic Time Series BSO Text/Date Measures support Member Level I M b L l Incremental t l Deployment

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Other Features Worth Noting

Optimized Security Sync y y MDX Formula Editor

Focused on creating optimized MDX for member formulas

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 i e Exposes Essbase to UTL HTTP protocol i.e. UTL_HTTP
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Data Retrieval via PL/SQL Stored Procedure

getEssbaseData() procedure exploits Oracle s Oracles RDBMS Technologies

1. Convert the ESSBASE_INPUT data structure into an MDX Query. 2. To communicate with Provider Services: Use Oracles UTL_HTTP UTL HTTP APIs and send the XML/A EXECUTE Request which contains the MDX query and receive the response. 3. To decode XML/A response: Use Oracle s DBMS_XMLPARSER Oracles DBMS XMLPARSER & DBMS_XMLDOM for XML parsing of response received from Provider. 4. Extract the data from the parsed XML/A response and load into the ESSBASE_RESULTSET data structure.