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Welcome to the free tutorials of Oracle Hyperion EssBase. The objective of these tutorials is to understand Data-Warehousing Concepts,Schema Models,OLAP Models
and brief explanation on ROLAP and MOLAP.
In addition to Oracle Hyperion EssBase tutorials, we will cover Oracle Hyperion EssBase interview questions, HowTo,s and issues of Oracle Hyperion EssBase.
Overview of Essbase
-Multidimensional OLAP database (MOLAP) Stores only figures (integer) – no textual information (char) or other formats.
-Has no tables, no fact table no rows but uses the concept of dimensions.
-Has no (or little) concept of time.
-Intersections of dimension members must exist in hierarchy before loading data. Member load (dimension build) before data load. Master-data essential.
-Ragged Hierarchies possible.
-Security to cell level and LDAP and NTLM authentication.
-Rich Scripting language (MaxL).
Essbase Advantages
-Provide a real-time analytic infrastructure to support business intelligence and enterprise performance management (EPM) applications.
-Combine multiple sources of disparate data, analyze that combined data, and perform data modeling and “What If” and predictive analysis scenarios using that data.
-Analyze Historical data, Performance trends, Profitability measurements and Foreign Exchange impacts on profitability and performance.
-The Essbase database is essentially a “cube”; each cube axis represents a different data point (accounts, time, products, etc.)
-Improves your ability to “see” your Business’ performance and health, as well as how you can utilize the data to project future scenarios and trends.