Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1.2 – Varying Attributes

Monday, June 29th, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J

Another excellent feature that was introduced as part of the EPM 11 release was the support for varying attributes. Varying attributes help in providing different perspectives of multiple attributes of a dimension over time. One can visualize this as SCD 2 in a relational world. For example, lets take the Sample –> Basic cube and […]

Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1.2 – Altering Measure Formats – Format Strings and Text Measures

Friday, June 26th, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J

If you had read my blog entry here, i would have shown how to go about creating textual measures in Essbase. Though that was a new feature introduced as part of the EPM 11 release, one related feature that i did not cover was the introduction of Format Strings. This probably is one of the […]

Oracle BI EE – Bulk Write backs to Essbase – Using JAPI, Global Temporary Tables and UTL_HTTP – Part 2

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Venkatakrishnan J

I had covered an approach here to do write backs into Essbase from BI EE. In some cases that approach would be sufficient. But in most of the cases, end users would want the capability to do a bulk write back similar to the default write back option provided by BI EE(like in relational sources). […]

Fun and Games with OBIEE Connection Pools and Essbase Logins

Monday, June 1st, 2009 by Mark Rittman

When you bring in an Essbase database into the Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4 and higher semantic model, you typically import it using the “admin” Essbase user ID. This is a standard account that comes with the default installation of Essbase and provides full access to all of the applications and databases in your Essbase server. […]

Hyperion Planning : Creating your own Simple Application

Friday, April 17th, 2009 by Mark Rittman

Earlier in the week I posted an introduction to Hyperion Planning, and then went through the process of setting up the Planning sample application. Today I’ve been working through creating my own Classic Planning application, to see how the process works. Note that this article by no means is the definitive way to approach this, […]

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