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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today was the official launch of Oracle Database 11g in New York City, whilst another event, the Oracle Fusion IT Conference, was being held at the Emirates Stadium in London. I couldn’t make it to either as I was onsite with a customer, but the New York event marked the public launch of Oracle’s new […]

It’s just after 3.30 in the afternoon in Lyon, and I’m just about to finish up at the Hyperion conference. I’ve deliberately held back from posting to the blog until today, as I wanted to take things in for a while as it’s all just so different from an Oracle conference. The format and so […]

It’s Sunday lunchtime and I’m currently on the train going up to London, to catch a flight to the Hyperion conference in Lyon. I’m going over as an official representative of the UKOUG, and the conference will give me a good chance to see where Hyperion’s products are going to fit in with the Oracle […]