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We dive into data and bring valuable insights to the surface.

Cubes & Cars

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Essbase Multidimensional Databases with

Motorsports Examples

About Us Over 11 years of data driven experience helping customers across many industries.

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The Problem Essbase was originally developed to address the scalability issues associated with spreadsheets and alleviate ‘Excel Hell’.

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The Solution Essbase (Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE) is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS) first released in 1992.

Essbase is a database technology optimized for processing human queries also known as “on-line analytical processing” (OLAP). In contrast, "on-line transaction processing" (OLTP) systems are optimized for transactions.

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Accolades & Competition In August 2005, Information Age magazine named Essbase as one of the 10 most influential technology innovations of the previous 10 years, along with Netscape, the BlackBerry, Google, virtualization, VOIP, Linux, XML, the Pentium processor and ADSL.

Significant competitors of Essbase (HOLAP/MOLAP) on the market, among them SAP BPC, Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Analysis Services (MOLAP, HOLAP, ROLAP), IBM Cognos (ROLAP), IBM Applix TM1 (MOLAP), MicroStrategy (ROLAP), and EXASolution (ROLAP).

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How It Works

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Budget

Variance

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How It Works (cont.) ! Add a dimension (or two). Would an

additional race team roll into a race series? Or would race series be a different dimension all together? It depends.

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Multidimensional Cubs & Race Car Video

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Example !  Smart View is the Excel interface into Essbase. End

users love it because there is no coding required to do analytics and reporting.

!  Planning web interface. !  Other tools can be used to interact with Essbase

cubes, including visualization software. Some examples include:

!  OBIEE !  CXO-Cockpit !  Spotfire !  Tableau !  Microsoft SSRS !  ArcPlan

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Advanced Topics ! Calculations* ! Metadata (outline) management

!  AKA Data Governance

! Loading/Extracting Data ! Attribute Dimensions ! Time-Balance ! Visualizations

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Racecar Telemetry Analytics

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Questions?

Cubes or Cars Q&A

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Contact Info

CHRIS GRIGALUNAS

ChrisG@EPMandBI.com 1-888-982-8680

ChrisG@AzulMotorsports.com 1-888-452-4012

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