Rittman Mead Blog - Oracle Enterprise Performance Management

Oracle EPM 11.1.2 - Allocations in Essbase ASO Cubes - Using MaxL scripts

In the last 2 blog entries, i showed how the calculations in ASO work. Today lets look at another new feature in ASO cubes i.e the ability to run allocations directly. In a BSO cube, Allocations and Calculations are all driven through a set of calculation commands. Some Allocation

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Oracle EPM 11.1.2 - Essbase Calculations on ASO Cubes - Part 2 - Maxl scripts and EAS

In the last blog post, i covered the new calculation manager feature to run calculations on an ASO cube. But to be honest, i somehow felt it was an overkill atleast for running ASO specific calculations alone. The advantage of calc manager can become apparent if you are using Planning

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Oracle EPM 11.1.2 - Essbase Calculations on ASO Cubes - Part 1 - Using Calc Manager

One of the significant new features of EPM 11.1.2 release, is the ability to write custom calculation scripts for calculating & allocating data to level-0 members in an ASO Cube. Till now, in many cases/implementations, BSO option had to be used in some form or the other

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EPM 11.1.2 - Getting Started and Installation

I have finally managed to download & install the necessary binaries for the EPM 11.1.2 Essbase installation. When i started the download, i was actually wary of downloading the 64 bit Essbase since 11.1.2 is a significant rewrite when compared with the previous 11.1.1.

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Oracle EPM 11.1.2 – Finally released and available on E-Delivery

After checking non-stop for the last couple of weeks, finally managed to start the download of EPM 11.1.2. Yes, its officially released for download now and is available in E-Delivery [http://edelivery.oracle.com]. Some of the significant new features in this release are 1. Oracle Financial Close

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Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR) 11.1.1.3 – Reporting on Relational Sources – XOLAP

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

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 - Deploying EPM reporting Portlets in Weblogic Portal 10g

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 [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 - Life Cycle Management - Part1 - Essbase Migration

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

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 - Customizing EPM Workspace

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

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 - Installing Hyperion Components on Multiple Machines

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

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 – Essbase Clustering for High Availability

Its been almost a couple of weeks since i last blogged due to a flurry of events like Open-World, Training Days, Client Engagements etc. Getting the materials completed took most of my time and since then i haven't had a chance to blog. But now that the busiest

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Oracle Buys (Bits Of) Hyperroll

The news hit the wires last night [http://twitter.com/eddieawad/status/4479863911] that Oracle were buying (certain assets of) Hyperroll [http://www.hyperroll.com], a technology company out of Israel with a head office in the USA. Hyperroll have been around for as long as I've been

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Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 – Hyperion Shared Services integration with external Applications – Java API – Part 1 - Introduction

One of the major enhancements that came in the Hyperion EPM 11 release is the availability of Java APIs to access shared services from external applications. In the prior releases, SDK’s were available but those have been enhanced completely now in this release to accommodate new features. Also with