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ABOUT OPAL ALAPAT• Vision Team Practice Lead, interRel• ~20 years BI architecture, development,
and management experience• Co-Author of the LSTYA OAC book• Cloud Specialist & Certified• Cloud Oracle ACE• Very active in Oracle user groups
CAVEATS AND CYA’S• What will intentionally not be covered in this
session:• Explanation of licensing models• Screenshots/demos of pre-release software
• What’s shown: • OAC 17.4.5 release (one patch ago)• Essbase build v12.2.1.1.108• Cube Designer v12.2.1.1.108.119• Smart View 11.1.2.5.720• Roadmap information
Also, #SafeHarbor, #SafeHarbor, #SafeHarbor!
PART I:WHAT IS ESSBASE?
A brief overview
WHAT IS ESSBASE?Essbase is a collection of three things:1. Raw data
• Loaded from any source• Stored in a central location
2. An organizational structure• Defines rollups and totals• Automatic consolidation
3. Calculations• Formulas• Scripts
Microsoft
What is Essbase’s biggest competitor?
SPREADSHEETS ARE TERRIBLE DATABASES• 100’s or 1000’s• Not timely• Not accurate • Not scalable• Not error proof• Maintenance nightmare• Spreadsheet chaos
ANALYZE PERFORMANCE
GOAL SETTING
SCORECARDS FINANCIAL REPORTING
VARIANCE ANALYSIS
ROLLING FORECAST
OPERATIONAL PLANNING
MONITOR RESULTS
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SO THEN ALONG CAME AN ESSBASE…• Essbase = “Extended Spreadsheet
Database”• Essbase is commonly used to:
• Combine multiple sources of disparate data• Consolidate data• Analyze summarized data• Provide an intuitive data model• “What If ”, Planning, Forecasting, etc...• “Speed of thought”• Powers EPM applications • Used across the entire Enterprise. • Satisfy the needs of a variety of users
ESSBASE = A “CUBE” OF DATA• Dimensions
• Time• Measures• Entity
• Members• Jan, Feb, Mar (Time)• Sales, COGS, Profit (Measures)• North America, Europe, Asia
(Entity)
75
Entity
Measures
TimeJan Feb Mar
$75 profit for North America in January
Sales
COGS
Profit123
131
166
196
150
149
182
231
115
120
143Nor
th A
mer
ica,
Eur
ope,
Asia
ESSBASE = A COLLECTION OF DIMENSIONS• Dimensions are hierarchies of information• Essbase allows users to easily drill down into hierarchies
Time
Qtr2
April
Entity
Europe
Asia
Measures
Profit
SalesCOGS
North AmericaQtr1
Jan
Feb
MarSouth AmericaAfricaCentral America
THE HISTORY OF ESSBASE
1992 – Essbase could be installed with a floppy disk
“Good Ol’ Hyperion Days”
~2000 - Essbase 6
~2004 - System 9
2007 –Oracle + Hyperion =
Complete EPM Solution
2016 - Cloud Solutions
§ Essbase 6 § Size and scale of cubes are growing§ New products emerging – Hyperion
Planning, HFM§ Soon afterward: ASO was released
§ Common Workspace§ Common security§ Common reporting repository (FR,
IR, WA) § Now IT / infra resources are
required to install and configure and support “Hyperion”
§ Oracle acquires Hyperion§ Complete EPM Solution§ OBIEE & Essbase§ Exalytics§ Enterprise wide deployments§ Huge cubes but projects are bigger
§ Cloud solution introduced§ Get back to the “simpler” times,
giving all areas/all departments access to enabling technologies
§ Reduce the IT requirement
PART II:WHAT IS ESSBASE
CLOUD?A brief overview
A HISTORY OF ESSBASE CLOUD
On St. Patty’s Day OAC officially went
GA!
Est. March 17, 2017Database + data
visualization / analytics tools built into one suite
Full BI SolutionStandard
EnterpriseUniversal Credits
Multiple Flavors
Different licensing, administration options, etc.
PaaS, not SaaSSome things are familiar,
some things are new,some things are gone
Old, New, Gone?
Currently. Next big release: Mar 2018
This is a “version 1.1”On-prem folks can migrate directly. Not everything is
supported, however.
Direct MigrationThis is not a tool that can be fully owned by the business.
Business/IT Owned
KEY CUSTOMER USE CASES FOR OAC• Hardware/software refresh
• On-prem version support ending• Older hardware• Looking to upgrade software features and
functionality
KEY CUSTOMER USE CASES FOR ESSBASE CLOUD• Essbase users looking for a Cloud solution
• Reduce costs and simplify maintenance• Hybrid Deployments between on-prem applications and Cloud cubes• Faster access to latest Essbase innovation
KEY USE CASES FOR BI CLOUD• Guided analytics for the
enterprise• Analytics has been on the rise• Wants to directly integrate with Essbase Cloud• Has multiple (too many) BI tools and needs to
consolidate to single solution that can meet ALL needs
• Looking for leading edge, modern BI features like Day by Day, AI, and Machine Learning
KEY CUSTOMER USE CASES FOR ESSBASE CLOUD• An analytics platform for
every Excel user• Effort to recreate data visualizations in
Excel is high, comparatively• Most still use Excel, using data downloaded
from other applications• Essbase empowers Excel by adding in a
unified analysis model, interactivity, and collaboration
KEY CUSTOMER USE CASES FOR ESSBASE CLOUD• Integration with other Cloud services
• Essbase as a data source for BI Cloud and DV• EPBCS & PBCS for BI Cloud and DV• Consolidated data from multiple EPM cloud and on-prem instances• Analyze data from other SaaS applications
PART III:A COMPARISON
Essbase Cloud vs. Essbase On-prem
ESSBASE CLOUD WEB INTERFACE
DVCS WEB INTERFACE
BICS WEB INTERFACE
THE DETAILS: ESSCS VS. ESSBASE - IN COMMON
THE DETAILS: ESSCS VS. ESSBASE - DIFFERENT
*
THE ADMINISTRATOR EXPERIENCE
The Mind of an AdministratorHow does the Essbase Cloud experience compare to on-prem?
Creating applications and cubes, loading dimensions, loading data, creating scripts and variables, etc.
Building Cubes
Updating dimensions, updating data, maintaining variables, automation, locks, security, connections, statistics, etc.
Maintenance
Ensuring that your applications and databases are performing as efficiently and quickly for your users!
Performance Tuning
Upstream and downstream systems, hybrid (on-prem and Cloud) integration, Cloud-to-Cloud integrations
Data Integration
DEMO: DEVELOPING CUBES USING CUBE DESIGNER
DEMO: CREATING THE CUBE IN ESSBASE CLOUD
MAINTENANCE
DBXTool
LCM(lifecycle management) CLI
(command line interface)
Web Interface(Jobs, Locks, Connections, Files, Outline, Variables,
Connections, Data Sources)
Cube Designer
MaxL
MAINTAINING THE OUTLINE: MANUALLY VIA WEB UI
MAINTAINING THE OUTLINE: RULES FILE EDITOR
SECURITY – ADDING USERS, GROUPS, FILTERS, PROVISIONING
VARIABLES – APP OR DATABASE LEVEL
CREATING CONNECTIONS
*JDBC is coming. Tentative ETA: March 2018. #safeharbor
DRILL-THROUGH REPORTS
<— Datasource option
URL option —>
*Next major feature enhancement: March 2018 #safeharbor
ACCESSING LOG FILES
PERFORMANCE TUNING• Hardware
• Introducing the “Compute shape”
• Design• Dense and sparse settings• Outline ordering• Member properties• App/db properties
DEMO: CREATING THE ESSCS CONNECTION
THE END USER EXPERIENCE
The Mind of an End UserHow does the Essbase Cloud experience compare to on-prem?
Static and interactive methods for internal or external reporting
Reporting
Ad hoc, data visualizations, dashboarding, data at your fingertips!
Analytics
Ensuring that there are database-specific that are important, intuitive, and easy to use for end users.
Essbase Cloud Feature Sets
Ability to access data from all pertinent sources easily and quickly, without having to rely on IT.
Accessibility and Performance
SMART VIEW
• Direct Microsoft Office integration
• Can be used for both inputs (Excel version of forms) and outputs
• Custom Excel reporting and more!
• Direct connection to the database to maintain “one version of the truth”
EPRCS (ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE REPORTING CLOUD)
Cloud + Smart View
Standalone – does not require EPM
Narrative reporting solution
Flexible & Collaborative
Regulatory filing solution
Process management, oversight, and
visibility
Works with any Excel-supported
data source
Oracle’s strategic reporting solution
DEMO: BUILDING VISUALIZATIONS QUICKLY WITH DVCS
DVCS CONNECTION TYPES
PART IV:MYTHBUSTERS
Fact or Fiction?
MYTH: ESSBASE CLOUD IS NOT REAL ESSBASE.
BI CSIFinding the Essbase Version Number in
Cloud
MYTH: NO IT DEPENDENCY IS REQUIRED FOR ESSBASE CLOUD.
TERMINAL ACCESS(a.k.a. proof)
PORT ACCESS(a.k.a. proof again)
MYTH: ESSBASE CLOUD SUPPORTS FINANCIAL REPORTING.
EPRCSThe New Static Reporting World for
Oracle EPM & BI Cloud
MYTH: EVERY ON-PREM ESSBASE CUSTOMER SHOULD MIGRATE TO ESSBASE CLOUD IMMEDIATELY.
EFFORT - THINGS TO CONSIDER
MAGNITUDE
FEATURE GAPS
CHANGE
QUESTIONS?
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