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Yesterday I looked at installing Hyperion Shared Services, as a prerequisite step for installing Hyperion Essbase. Today, I’m going to install the Essbase tools proper, so that tomorrow I can start pulling some data into an Essbase cube.
The install guide for Hyperion System 9 suggests installing the Essbase tools in the following order:

Analytic Services Client […]

Well, that’s it for now, I’m waiting in the airport to catch my flight back to the UK, after running the last of the BI seminars in Auckland yesterday. Another good turnout, a very nice audience made up of customers and partners, and the seminar itself went pretty smoothly given that it’s the third time […]

Now that I’ve got a bit of spare time (and a 24 hour flight ahead of me), I thought it was about time I got to grips with Essbase and the various Hyperion tools now available for download on http://edelivery.oracle.com. Essbase, like Oracle OLAP, is an OLAP server that stores data multi-dimensionally and provides support […]

So, I just settled in to my first-ever trip to Qatar. I took an SN-Brussels flight earlier this evening out to Manchester and now I am sitting in the Qatar Airways A320-300 getting ready to take off. Qatar Airways has a fantastic reputation so I must say I am quite excited to experience their in-flight […]

I’m just packing up my stuff now, about to leave the Sydney Harbour Marriott and fly over to Auckland later on today. Like Melbourne, Sydney went really well, a really nice audience, good turnout (25) and a good venue. It’s been really nice doing the seminars over here - for most people, BIEE is fairly […]

Last week I mentioned one of the reasons why DW performance drops, users start to use different queries.
One of my customers had a design principle that ‘raw data’ should look like it’s source. So where we had a feed of invoice headers and invoice lines (the classic master / detail, two table approach: the who […]

Business Objects, which may seem a bit of odd choice from someone who writes mainly about data warehouse design and often Oracle. True I can, and do do the whole BI piece, but again, my preferences are heavily Oracle infused.
Business Objects has hit the press a few times in recent days. First, the French press […]

I’ve been doing a bit of research on the history of Oracle’s BI tools, for the keynote I’m doing at the BIWA event next month, and in particular I’ve been taking a look back at the history of what is now Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, previously known as Siebel Analytics. Here’s what I’ve found […]

Well that’s the first one done then, and I’m pleased to say I think it went fairly well. The event was held at a training centre just a couple of blocks away from my hotel, just over the river, and I bumped into one of the delegates down by the lifts who recognized me and […]

Just a quick posting before I wander over to the training center for the first seminar. I arrived in Melbourne yesterday morning about 9.30am, about 30 hours since I left Heathrow on Friday. This is the second time I’ve been in Australia, and again I can’t help wondering why everyone in Britain doesn’t just move […]