 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, Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios. Aside from its high scalability, a key strength of 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 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.
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What's New
Oracle Essbase, Fusion Edition V.11.1.1 Release Highlights
- Single Environment to Build and Maintain Essbase Cubes - Essbase Studio provides a single interface for performing tasks related to data source modeling, cube design, and construction of analytic applications. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/essbase/studio.html
- New Installation and Configuration 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 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 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. 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 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 Essbase cube that is transparently and dynamically sourced from an RDBMS. Greatly increases the potential size and scope of an Essbase cube through the use of a hybrid aggregation strategy. RDBMS friendly with fewer, simpler, more efficient SQL queries from Essbase to the RDBMS.
- Parallel SQL Data Loads - Supports up to 8 rules files via temporary load buffers.
- Oracle EBS Financials 11i Source Integration and Drill-back - when 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 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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