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Canals – check. Cobbled streets – check. Trams and lots of bicycles – check. Erotic shops – check. Refreshingly liberal attitudes and some eye-watering channels on the hotel TV – check. It can only be the Netherlands, and I’m over here staying at a rather nice hotel in The Hague, getting ready for a one-day [...]

And for my next trick, I shall be …. building an Oracle Real-Time Decisions project. For anyone who didn’t catch the posting on this blog earlier this year, Real-Time Decisions is a part of Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, originally built by Sigma Dynamics and included as part of Siebel CRM, and now available standalone [...]

As I mentioned yesterday I was in London (in fact in the shadows of Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament) today for the UK OUG BIRT SIG meeting. The venue was also shared by a UK OUG directors meeting so I got the opportunity to chat to Peter Robson over lunch. Oddly, we ended [...]

Now that Essbase is more or less up and running, what else is there to do on a twelve-hour flight except put a couple of Essbase cubes together, to see how the process works and compare it to Analytic Workspace Manager? As a quick recap, I’ve got Essbase (a.k.a. Hyperion Analytic Services) 9.3.1 installed, along [...]

Now that I’ve got Hyperion Essbase installed and seemingly working OK, I thought it worth taking a look through the Essbase manuals to try and get a feel for how Essbase works. In particular, I’m looking to see what it has in common with Oracle OLAP and Express Server, partly out of curiosity but also [...]