Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR) is one of the simplest and very robust reporting tools that is currently part of the Oracle BI EE Plus bundle. It has excellent multi-dimensional reporting capabilities and scales very well unlike Web Analysis. Part of the reason for this is, there is not much metadata management that is required for [...]

There are multiple ways of integrating reporting tools(oracle or non-oracle) to external portals. The most commonly used ones are the URL based integration, Web Service calls and calling native portlets directly from the portals. I have covered the details of the techniques some time back here. Out of these 3, URL based integration is the [...]

One of the major issues that i commonly encountered while doing 9.3 based essbase implementations was the fact that there was no built in utility within the Hyperion stack that could migrate various applications from a Development to a Test/Production machine(not essbase alone but also other related components like Shared Services etc). I still remember [...]

A common requirement that always comes up as part of an Organization wide EPM rollout, is in customizing the look and feel of the products to match the company logo, style etc. In the case of BI EE, the customization is quite straight forward, as BI EE segregates the look and feel into 2 parts [...]

In any EPM deployment, rarely do all the components get installed on a single machine. In majority of the cases, you will see that each component is actually installed on separate machines with their own application and web servers. So, how does this all work and how do we go about installing various EPM components [...]