Oracle Essbase Roadmap Sep 09

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The following is intended to outline our general product. ,

not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment todeliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not berelied upon in making purchasing decisions.

The development, release, and timing of any features or

functionality described for Oracles products remains at thesole discretion of Oracle.


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Oracle Essbase 9x / 11x

, . .Director, Analytics | BI & EPM Global Business Unit


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Powered by Essbase

Essbase is a key technology for the EPM, OBI and

Fusion Platforms Essbase powers Hyperion Planning ss ase powers yper on ro ta ty an ost

Management

HFM HSF

Essbase is part of the OBI platform

A re ate navi ation re ortin

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Essbase R9000 thru R9311 Highlights

R9000 Everythings Included

R9310 Oracle Branding

up cate em er 64-bit First Class Port Smart View

r te- ac ASO Data Streaming Smart Space Gadgets

ASO Restructure & Export

Google OneBox

Oracle Secure Search

R9300 64-bit AIX, Solaris, Xeon, and

O teron

R9311 BSO to ASO Partitions

MaxL Encryption ASO Time Intelligence BSO Subset Export

Smart View Classic XL Add-in


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Essbase 11.1.1.1 Highlights

Varying Attributes

Text/ Date measures Backup/ recovery, transaction logging

Trickle-feeding

Write-back to level 0 art a ata c ear Target of a partition

Essbase Studio first release Replace EIS/ EAS data prep editor, XOLAP

Improved installation


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The power of ASO Streams

Trickle-feed into a persisted ASO cube

Cube is online through the trickle-feed process Read & Write can co-exist with trickle-feed n as a s e ene t you can now oa concurrent y

into ASO!


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Lets see how this happens

Time


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Merge and Trickle

Merge Merge

Time


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XOLAP in a partitioned environment

Using XOLAP with transparent partitioning

ASO

RDBMS

XOLAPBSO

Planning/Modeling? Actuals from Teradata/Oracle?


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Varying Attributes - Perspectives

Reality perspective

March perspective


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Text and date measures

Use text and dates as measures in multidimensional

reporting Perform analysis based on text or date measures ew types o reports an ana ys s


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Backup/ recovery, transaction logging and replay


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Several 11x Features Drive Towards Near-

Trickle Feeds (ASO)

Rapidly add new data to an existing cube No need to bring cube offline for loading or aggregating

XOLAP Ability to define a cube that retrieves from relational at Query

Time Useful when needing real time Point-of-Sale data as part of

overall cube

Can merge (Via ASO partitioning) with other cubes, such asPlanning or custom



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Oracle Essbase Release Timeline

11.1.1.3

Fusion

11.1.1.2

Localization

11.1.1.1 11.1.2.0

Fusion Apps Several New

11.x.x.x

TBDnanc a s

integration Drill back

Minor release

ug xes Minor release

ntegrat on Financials,Projects, CRM

EnterpriseReadiness

Features Major release

Major releaseAvailable Now

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Zola Release Highlights - Essbase. . .

Focused on two main pieces of functionality

Essbase ERPI Integration Data and Metadata Loading r - ac

Extending Graphical Calculation capabilities toEssbase A lications Calc Mana er



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ERP Integration Suite

Part of Financial Data Quality Management

integration between ERPs and EPM/BI applications Supports inbound data and metadata with drill-back Classic and EPMA managed applications Supported by Planning, HFM and Essbase

- ,View and Financial Reports

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Unified Calculation Management

Calculation Manager

Planning, Financial Managementand Essbase

understanding of calculationprocess

- applications

Central repository of all

Lowers the barrier for users todefine and maintain business


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Talleyrand Release Highlights - Essbase. .

Major Release

Key deliverable for Fusion Applications Enterprise Readiness

Fusion Middleware Support Reliability, Performance, and Security

Module Innovation Enhanced Usability



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New features Essbase 11.1.2 (Talleyrand)

Fusion Applications/ Middleware EPM/Essbase us on nanc a s epor ng

Custom calcs/ allocations Write-back to GL

Securit inte ration

Improve LCM features

Outline Compare Project Names

Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Single Sign-on

Oracle Diagnostic Logging

Accessibility (508) Improved Security Sync Essbase/ EAS/ APS Functional Enh

Usernames (length/ chars) Clustering and Failover (OPMN) MaxL error codes

MDX from MaxL (APS) ASO Formula Dialog (EAS)

Studio Usability and Functional Enh

Support deploy from EPMA OBI integration

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Fusion Application Support

Essbase plays a major role as aninfrastructure/Fusion middleware technology for theFusion Applications (avail CY2010)

, , , Faceless integrated through ADF and into the

a lications directl Work being done will benefit non-Fusion apps

customers as well



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Allocations/Custom Calculations on ASO

Supports pre-defined Allocation Function toallocate a value to a range of members in anASO application

an ASO application

Results are stored in the cube i.e. slice forsubsequent querying and/or calculations

First entry into procedural calculations for ASO

Exposed through API, MaxL



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Failover

Based on Oracle Process Monitoringand Notification (OPMN) Active-passive failover

startup/ shutdown

Agent will start/ stop Essbase server ns a e an con gure rouginstall/config

Shared storage

Read-write supported to shared disk



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Enterprise Readiness

Performance Management Packs for OEM Monitoring of EPM processes Deployment Topology System Status Dashboards

Key Metrics identified Self-Service Diagnostics and Logging

Based on ODL Framework Centralized Lo in Error identification and resolution

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Enhanced EPM Architect Support

Data sync support for ASO

Named Gen & Levels Additional properties Dynamic Time Series BSO

Text/Date Measures support em er eve ncremen aDeployment

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Other Features Worth Noting

Optimized Security Sync

MDX Formula Editor Focused on creating optimized MDX for member

Tighter integration with OBI Initial steps to seamless integration of Essbase and

OBI Server Allows Studio to operated against the OBI logical

layer

Web Services for Essbase Part of EPM Web Services Project . . _



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Data Retrieval via PL/SQL Stored Procedure


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getEssbaseData() procedure exploits

1. Convert the ESSBASE_INPUT data structure into an MDXuery.

2. To communicate with Provider Services: Use Oracles _

contains the MDX query and receive the response.

_ & DBMS_XMLDOM for XML parsing of response received fromProvider.

4. Extract the data from the parsed XML/A response and load intothe ESSBASE_RESULTSET data structure.


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Oracle Essbase Roadmap Sep 09