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My new article on Essbase and Oracle BI EE has just gone up on OTN. It covers the steps you’d need to go through to build a simple Essbase database based on the SH Sample Schema that comes with Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g, and how you’d then plug that database into Oracle Business Intelligence […]

Whilst Oracle BI Answers is a pretty good ad-hoc query tool, it’s not really an OLAP tool and Oracle’s current recommendation if you want that sort of thing is to use Hyperion Web Analysis, which comes bundled with the latest version of OBIEE, OBIEE “Plus”. Hyperion Web Analysis connects to Essbase, Microsoft Analysis Services and […]

If you’re an Oracle Hyperion Essbase developer, or perhaps an Oracle BI developer looking to see what the new Hyperion products will bring to the Oracle BI stack, ODTUG have recently published details of the Hyperion track planned for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 in New Orleans.
Tim Tow and Edward Roske, two of the most well-known Essbase […]

Following on from my blog article earlier this week on future Oracle BI architectures, I’ve read through the comments and had a think about how things might work, and put together some thoughts on how organizations might use Oracle’s Enterprise Edition BI tools now and going into the future.
To recap, the idea here is to […]

One of the presentations I’m giving over the next couple of months is one for the UKOUG BI & Performance Management event on future Oracle BI architectures. The driver for this for me is around all the different options that are now available for building Oracle BI systems, now that we’ve got products from Siebel, […]

ODTUG, who are organizing the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans next June, have recently added an additional, dedicated Hyperion stream to the event for Essbase and Hyperion Developers. From what I’ve seen of the Hyperion and Essbase world so far there’s a great deal in common between BI and OLAP developers from both […]

Just a quick posting on Saturday morning to mention some new Oracle OLAP and Essbase blogs that I’ve come across.
First up is an Oracle OLAP blog by some of the most well-known people behind the product. Kevin Lancaster (well known to us at the UK Oracle User Group), Keith Laker (ditto), Jameson White (the man […]

A month or so ago I posted a series of articles on getting up and running with Hyperion Essbase, and mentioned at the time that it soon would be possible to plug Essbase directly in to Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. In this article, I’ll go through a preview of this connectivity and show how […]

Venkat and Abhinav posted the news earlier today; Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3.1 is now on general release on OTN, I’ve downloaded it and it’s a straightforward upgrade that can be applied on top of 10.1.3.3 (not sure about earlier releases). Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to come with the Essbase integration that was mentioned […]

I gave a BI keynote (pdf copy of slides) at a couple of events last week (the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Summit in Reston, VA and the OUG Scotland Conference & Exhibition, Glasgow), and as it’s been picked up on the Eye on Oracle blog site, I thought that it’s worth giving a bit […]