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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

Chapter 2. Essbase Data and Design Considerations

We have successfully performed the installation of Oracle's Essbase software and it is functioning correctly. Let's cross-check for a minute, we have the server agent installed and running, the EAS installed on our client and operating correctly, and the Oracle Essbase Add-in for Microsoft Excel is also installed on our client in Microsoft Excel. We are now ready to begin learning and exploring Oracle Essbase!

In this chapter, we will discuss how to use the data elements required by the customer and transform them from the usual row and column relational schema into Essbase-friendly meta-data dimensions and data members.

Moving ahead, we will use the Esscar Motor Company as the fictitious business customer for all of our examples throughout this book. The Esscar Motor Company is a traditional multinational automobile manufacturing enterprise.

Introduction to OLAP

OLAP is the common term for Online Analytical Processing and is generally known...

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Build multidimensional Essbase database cubes and develop analytical Essbase applications

Step-by-step instructions with expert tips from installation to implementation

Can be used to learn any version of Essbase starting from 4.x to 11.x

For beginners as well as experienced professionals; no Essbase experience required

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The hot new data analysis trends involve business intelligence and analytics. The technology that supports business intelligence and analytics better than anything else is today's multidimensional OLAP technology ñ and there is none better than Oracle Essbase! Although storing data in a cube and developing analytical applications leaves many people grasping for understanding, especially if their experience is with relational databases, embracing OLAP technology will pay big dividends in the long run. It's easy to develop multidimensional analytic OLAP solutions when you have got this Oracle Essbase book to hand. It is a step-by-step guide to timeless Essbase fundamentals, which takes you from a basic software installation through to launching a fully functioning Essbase database cube. This book will guide you through every stage of installing Oracle's Essbase software on your analytic server, the Essbase Administration Services client, and the client software itself. You will learn, in easy-to-understand language, the concepts of multidimensional database technology as you are taken step by step through building an actual Essbase application complete with database, database calculation scripts, and database report scripts. Once you have your system built and functional, the next course of instruction covers the available automation features included in your Essbase software package and how to use them. These chapters alone are worth the price of admission! As an IT professional you quite rightly have a desire to understand multidimensional OLAP ñ this book gives you that understanding. Should you wish to embark on an exciting career as an Essbase developer/administrator, this book provides a fantastic foundation from which to grow. Best of all, this book is filled with the tips and tricks that you can only get from many years and countless hours spent playing with Essbase. You get them all in just the time it takes you to complete this book.

Who is this book for?

This book is primarily for the IT professional who has a good understanding of IT principles and processes but is a multidimensional OLAP novice. Experienced OLAP professionals will also gain insight from this book. Simply put, if you are in the IT field and wish to gain a functional level of knowledge in the world of Oracle Essbase, whether it be for a developer role or a PM or BA role, this is the book you need.

What you will learn

Dig into the concept of multidimensional database cubes and explore the similarities to and differences from traditional relational databases

Build effective database outlines including dimensions and members

Extract data from source systems like SQL Sources or Input Data Files and load them into Essbase cubes

Create fast and efficient database calculation scripts for your Essbase applications

Extract data into reports or downstream systems by writing professional database report scripts

Make your work easier by automating Essbase processes like cube building or running calc and report scripts

Generate quality dynamic ad hoc spreadsheets and reports by using Microsoft s Excel Add-In effectively

Perform required and optional maintenance and performance-tuning tasks just like an experienced Essbase administrator

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A Programmer Nov 23, 2010

I came to this book after a brief into to Essbase/Hyperion from a consultant, but bought this book so I could learn in a more linear fashion.I am very happy with this book. It helped me understand the relationship between Hyperion, Essbase and the Excel Add In/Smartview as well as how to install and get started (which I did not need to do but still helpful to see).It went on to help me conceptualize an OLAP database (which was my biggest problem), then showed me step by step how to set up an outline and then create loaders to import data from other sources.I would say this is a good book for someone who is on IT Analyst side of the fence, but probably not so much for an end user whose focus is data retrieval and creating reports. Unless that end user is going to be involved in a new implementation or upgrade.

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Juan Algaba Colera Dec 24, 2009

For me, it is very important that a book has good examples that you can follow at home with your laptop. I could not do that with this book. They present a car dealer company as an example, but then there is no detailed explanation on how you can load the data in your laptop. Maybe the authors should have provided a link so that you could download the necessary files.On the other hand, the examples in this other book Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase System 9 are very detailed and easy to followThey use as an example "The beverages company" sample schema, which is available in any Hyperion installation. I could follow step by step the explanation on how to build reports, etc, so it gave me a real sense of achievement and progression.

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