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ASO vs. BSO
Why does it have to be so
confusing?
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Agenda
Introduction
Audience Participation
BSO vs ASO
Functional Differences
What are you trying to accomplish
Technical Differences
Examples for Different Types of People
Optimization Differences
Case Studies
Integration Notes
Questions
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Introduction
12 Years of Planning/Essbase Experience
OAUG Hyperion SIG Essbase Domain Lead
Senior Partner MindStream Analytics
Contact InformationEmail: [email protected]
Telephone: 917-579-0926
Alex Ladd
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Audience Participation
How Many of you are currently Essbase Users?
How many currently use BSO?
How many currently use ASO?
How many have no idea what ASO or BSO means?
How many of you are from Finance?
How many of you are from IT?
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BSO General Info
Original Essbase Version
Strong Calculation Engine
Even has tengental curve functions
Very good for allocations
Not scalable to very large data sets
BSO = Essbase Block Storage Option
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ASO General Info
Newer Version of Essbase
Debuted in Essbase version 7
Handles larger data volumes
Better for analysis of more members
ASO = Essbase Aggregate Storage Option
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What are you trying to
Accomplish?
Analyze existing data from a Data Warehouse? Sales across
markets and demographics
Marketing impacts by type and demographic
Vendor Analysis On Time delivery vs Cost vs Quality
Production Line analysis of up time and runtime efficiency
Supply Chain Analysis Usage Time of Vehicles, On Time delivery
metrics or route efficiency
Calculate new data for Analysis? Allocation of costs across
product lines or divisions
Charge back models
Predictive modelling trying to calculate future activity
ASO
BSO
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Technical Differences
Sizing
ASO is smaller on the disk
BSO aggregates more information and stores it
Calculation Capabilities
ASO basic mathematics across existing members
Did not have inline calculation (calcscripts) until 11.1.2
Still in its infancy
11.1.2 gave ability to create Allocations
Many restrictions Not as powerful as BSO
BSO Advanced mathematics COS curve etc
Inline calculations (calcscripts) give it a much higher range of
functionality and power to create data
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An Example for IT
1st is: Dimension, Dimension, Measure Key, Data
To determine what Essbase is right for you think of how your
fact table is laid out Option 1 goes best with BSO, Option 2
goes best with ASO
2nd is the measures as column names
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An Example for Finance
How are you consuming the data?
Are you taking large amounts of data out of the database to
create other reports?
ASO
Is your solution for budgeting or forecasting?
BSO
Does your solution require allocations or eliminations?
BSO
Is you data volume extremely large?
ASO
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Real World Example - ASO
Analyze data warehouse information
Frequent Refresh of Data 10 minute interval
Many cross sections with lots of detail
Artist
Title
Age Demographic
Carrier
Resulted in large Meta model
Online Ringtone Vendor
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Real World Example - BSO
Cost Allocation Model
Infrequent Data Refresh Once a month
Analyze Vendor relationship and Product Detail across
channels
Creation of data within and across dimensions
Chargeback of Internal Costs
Allocation of internal Costs to products and Vendors based on
Drivers
Financial Loan Originator and Servicer
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Agenda & Topics Draft
Integration Differences
EPMA has limitations with BSO
1 app to 1 database
EPMA was built to handle ASO and retrofitted to handle BSO
This highlights something important Oracle wants to get rid of
BSO but cant duplicate its functionality in ASO and is having
trouble doing that. Original plans were to be done with BSO by
now.
OBIEE & ASO or BSO?
Have seen issues where OBIEE cannot create the correct MDX logic
for either but Financial Reports, Smart View or
Excel Add-in can create the query
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Contact InformationEmail: [email protected]
Telephone: 917-579-0926
Questions?
