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Ljiljana Perica, Oracle Business solution Team Leader
Dare to OLAP – An Essbase Workshop
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Oracle’s EPM System Vision Focus on Today and Plan for Tomorrow
• Link strategic goals to operational decisions
• Integrates all management processes
• Deliver consistent, reliable insights to drive action
• Lower costs and reduces system complexity
• Single version of the truth
Insight Performance
Action
Set Goals
Plan
Monitor
Analyze
Report
Align
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Oracle Hyperion Essbase
The OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) server that provides an environment for rapidly
developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications
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REPORTING ANALYSIS
Which customers spend the most?
What did this customer buy?
What is the Q4 revenue forecast?
Which customers are most profitable?
What is the customer likely to buy next?
What if demand falls short of forecast?
BI Tools are Designed for Reporting Essbase is Tuned for Analysis
Essbase = Extended Excel Spreadsheet Base
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3-D Cube
267
Markets
Pro
duct
s
TimeJan Feb Mar
267 units of fruit soda sold in CA in Jan
Diet ColaRoot BeerCream SodaFruit Soda
123
131
166
196
150
149
182
231
115
120
143CA C
T NY
• Dimensions– Time– Products– Markets
• Members– Jan, Feb, Mar (Time)– Diet Cola, Root Beer,
Cream Soda, Fruit Soda (Products)
– CA, CT, NY (Markets)• Measures
– Sales
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Dimension Hierarchies
For each dimension, you can organize the set of its members in a hierarchy.
Year
Quarter 2
April
Products
Fruit Soda
Cream Soda
Colas
Diet Coda
Markets
West
CA
East
CT
NY
SodasQuarter 1
January
February
March
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Rolling Up and Drilling Down
• Rollup summarizes data by climbing up the dimension hierarchy (dimension reduction).
• Drilldown is the reverse of rollup.
rollup drilldown
Sales Jan Feb Mar Qtr1
CADiet Cola 166 182 143 491
Root Beer 131 149 120 400
Sales Qtr1
CADiet Cola 491
Root Beer 400
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Pivoting
Pivot rotates the data cube to change the data visualization.
SalesCA CT
January February January FebruaryDiet Cola 166 182 78 56Root Beer 131 149 55 69
Sales January February
CADiet Cola 166 182Root Beer 131 149
CTDiet Cola 78 56Root Beer 55 69
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Life Cycle of Essbase Database Design
Build MDB
Load Data
Calculate
Reportand
Verify
Designing an Essbase database is a cyclic process ...
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Database Outline• Plays the key role in the life cycle of the Essbase database design• Database development begins with creating a database outline• Tree structure for dimension hierarchies• Consolidations and mathematical relationships between members• Outline Editor
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Loading Data and Metadata
Essbase
AdministrationConsoleNonformatted
Data File Rules File
+
FormattedData File
IntegrationServices
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Adding Dimensions and Members
You can add dimensions and members to the outline manually or dynamically.
Adding a siblingAdding a child
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• Consolidation property defines how the member rolls up to its parent.
• Consolidation operators:– Addition (+)– Subtraction (-)– Multiplication (*)– Division (/)– Percent (%)– Ignore (~)
Consolidation Property and Operators
Sales
COGS
(+)
(-)
Margin = Sales – COGS
Margin
Excluded from consolidation
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Creating Member Formulas
• Create the member formula in Formula Editor
Formula Editing pane
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Superior Calculation Power
• Widest range of functionality– Simple aggregations to complex
cross dimensional allocations– Results stored or calculated upon
retrieval– Relationship aware– Application wide or subset specific– Conditional and procedural logic
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Comprehensive Library of Functions
• 350+ functions• Simple syntax• Extensible• Single point of
maintenance
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Write-Back
1. Choose the intersection2. Type the updated data
value3. Click submit
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Demo: Essbase Outline
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Speed of Thought Response
Essbase enables this “conversation with the data” – understanding that an answer to a question typically leads to another question – and business users can’t wait hours (or days) for that question to be answered
“A conversation with the data”
FastScalable
Consistent
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Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus Pervasive Information Delivery
OLTP & ODSSystems
Data WarehouseData Mart
SAP, OraclePeopleSoft, Siebel,
Custom Apps
FilesExcelXML
BusinessProcess
Financial Performance Management Applications
Insight Performance
Action
Set Goals
Plan
Monitor
Analyze
Report
Align
Oracle Essbase
Oracle BI Server
Common Enterprise Information Model
Reporting & Publishing
Financial ReportingBI Publisher
Interactive ReportingSQR Production Reporting
Web Analysis
Ad hoc Analysis
ProactiveDetectionand Alerts
Microsoft Office
Interactive Dashboards
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SmartView: Microsoft Office Integration
• Capabilities across:– Excel– Word– PowerPoint– Outlook
• familiar MS Office UI
• robust OLAP server with advanced analytics
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Smart View for Office Toolbar
Point of View Bar
Context Menu
Hyperion Ribbon
- three principal interfaces you leverage when working with Smart View to query data from Essbase:
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Member Selection and Query Design
Refining the Query
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Dynamic Data Points
Move data with context from one office component to another:
• Word• PPT• Outlook
Visualize to:• Excel• Visual Explorer
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Demo: Smart View & OBI EE
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“Visual Explorer is not just a slick way to visualize, it’s a slick way to visually analyze.”
– Wayne Eckerson, Industry Analyst, TDWI
Visual Explorer – Best in Class
• adaptive visualization tool that lets you see patterns in your data
• numeric outliers stand up clearly – then you can bring data in spreadsheet for enterprise distribution
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Demo: Hyperion Visual Explorer
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Why Essbase?
Best Custom Analytic Environment
Highly Advanced Calculation Engine2
Richest Business User Experience1