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A Walk Through the
Essbase Cloud
Bob Usset
Director, Oracle EPM
April 17th, 2019
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Agenda
• Flavors of OAC
• Licensing
• How does ____ work?
• UI overview
• Data/Dim Loads, Calcs
• Smart View
• SQL connectivity
• Automation
• New, OAC-only features
• Cube Designer
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Editions & Licensing
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Flavors of OAC
• Oracle Managed
• Simplified setup of your environment
• Less expensive to have Essbase in the cloud (hour per hour)
• Purpose is to stand up, create, throw away
• No patching existing cubes
• No stopping environment
• Customer Managed
• Needs to setup database and storage
• More expensive compared to Oracle Managed (hour per hour)
• Ability to stop services (reduce cost)
• Patch existing applications
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Backup and Patching
• Backups
• LCM application snapshots
• Total service backups
• Patching
• Only available to patch environment with active application in customer managed
• Simple… precheck button, apply patch button
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OAC: Standard
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OAC: Essbase
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OAC: Enterprise
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Licensing & Costs
• Licensing is per processor, per hour
• Unlimited users
• Unlimited apps
• There are charges for
• Processor
• Storage ($0.04 GB/month)
• Outbound Data Transfer ($0.10 GB/month)
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Infrastructure Options
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Infrastructure Options
• VPN
• Most common option
• Setup connection between on-prem
data center and Oracle cloud
• Enables configuration and connection with
on-prem data
• FastConnect
• Establish a direct connection between op-prem and Oracle Cloud
• Used when large data transfers are needed
• Enables configuration and connection with
on-prem data
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ETL & DBaaS
• Push data to OAC database using standard ETL tools
• Ability to manipulate data in Database as needed
• Load Essbase cubes Oracle Cloud Database
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Data Sync Utility
• Load of on-prem data to OAC (SQL stores, comma delimited file)
• Installed on-prem
• Connections for sources and targets setup in Data Sync
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How do I ___ in the Cloud?
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An overview of the UI
• JET versus Classic
• Context specific
• Buttons/functions
• Apps, DBs, Outlines
• Outline editor
• Inspect = view/edit properties
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Accessing the Outline
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An overview of the UI
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An overview of the UI
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An overview of the UI
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Calc Scripts
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Calc Scripts
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Rules (Load Rules)
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Rules (Load Rules)
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Rules (Load Rules)
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Rules (Load Rules)
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Data Rule
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Smart View Connectivity
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Automation Options
• Essbase CLI
• Original tool used for updating Essbase applications
• Free
• Installed on-prem, scripts will be saved in on-prem instance for scheduling
• MaxL Client
• New functionality
• Free
• Installed on-prem, scripts will be saved in on-prem instance for scheduling
• This scripts will be very similar to the script used for on-prem for Essbase builds
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Automation Options
• Essbase CLI
• MaxL Client
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Cube Designer - Add-In
• Create and manage application using Excel
• Installed like Smart View
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Cube Designer - Raw Data
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Cube Designer - Job Console
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Excel Format
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Excel Application Format
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Excel Application Format
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Excel Application Format - Dimensions
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Build/Update Cube
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Build/Update Cube
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Excel Application Format - Calcs
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