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OBIEE Integration With Essbase
OBIEE Integration With Essbase
Mark Rittman, Technical Director, Rittman Mead ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference, Sydney 2011
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Mark Rittman
Mark Rittman, Co-Founder of Rittman Mead Oracle ACE Director, specialising in Oracle BI&DW 14 Years Experience with Oracle Technology Regular columnist for Oracle Magazine Author of forthcoming Oracle Press book on OBIEE 11g Writer for Rittman Mead Blog : http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog Email : mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com Twitter : @markrittman
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Simplification of the Data Model Integration of Disparate DataSources Addition of Business Logic and Calculations
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Demonstration
Essbase Metadata in the Oracle BI Repository
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P&L-Style Reports
Though Financial Reporting is the most suitable tool for P&L-style reports, Answers using hierarchical columns can reproduce a lot of their functionality
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Demonstration
Combining Essbase and Relational Data using OBIEE
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Actionable Intelligence
OBIEE concept around closed-loop analytics Detect, action and then action your data Agents provide alerts, automation Actions provide links to external processes
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Demonstration
Using Actions to Provide Essbase Writeback and Execute Calc Scripts
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With set [_Axis1Set] as '{Distinct({[Products]})}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} properties With set [_Axis1Set] as '{Distinct({[Products]})}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows from [BISAMPLE.Sample] GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows from [BISAMPLE.Sample]
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With set [_Axis1Set] as '{[Products].Generations(1).members}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} With set [_Axis1Set] as '{[Products].Generations(1).members}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows from properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows from [BISAMPLE.Sample] [BISAMPLE.Sample]
With set [_Axis1Set] as '{Distinct({[10002]})}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} properties With set [_Axis1Set] as '{Distinct({[10002]})}'select {} on columns, {[_Axis1Set]} properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[Ancestor_Names], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[Ancestor_Names], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME] on rows from [BISAMPLE.Sample] from [BISAMPLE.Sample]
With set [_Products2] as '{Distinct({[10002]})}' set [_Products3] as With set [_Products2] as '{Distinct({[10002]})}' set [_Products3] as 'Generate({[_Products2]},[Products].currentmember.children)'select { [Measures].[Gross Revenue] } on 'Generate({[_Products2]},[Products].currentmember.children)'select { [Measures].[Gross Revenue] } on columns, NON EMPTY {{[_Products3]}} properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], columns, NON EMPTY {{[_Products3]}} properties GEN_NUMBER, [Products].[Memnor], [Products].[Ancestor_Names], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME], [Products].[LEVEL_NUMBER] on rows from [Products].[Ancestor_Names], [Products].[MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME], [Products].[LEVEL_NUMBER] on rows from [BISAMPLE.Sample] [BISAMPLE.Sample]
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AGO, TODATE, PERIODROLLING Generate year-to-date, period ago, rolling total Pushes down to equivalent MDX EVALUATE, EVALUTE_AGGR Leverage native MDX functions
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Summary
OBIEE 11g introduces a number of new features Essbase customers were waiting for Proper OLAP analysis with hierarchical member selection Support for value-based hierarchies, so that outline changes dont need re-import Support for multiple aliases, UDAs, multiple hierarchies, filters etc OBIEE also provides many additional features that will benefit Essbase customers Mapping, scorecards, better visualizations Action Framework, integration with Fusion Middleware But the 11g release also brings its own new issues Excessive number of MDX statements for pivoting OLAP-style queries Selection steps can exacerbate this issue by exponentially adding more MDX queries Value-based hierarchies have their own gotchas Dont try to 100%-replace Excel Add-in With OBIEE Tools are complementary, have their own strengths Be prepared to learn OBIEE dev techniques as well as Essbase ones
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