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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
Preface

Summary


Well, that wraps up the chapter on the Essbase outline. We know you've been hit with a lot of information upto this point. There is a lot to know about the Essbase database outline.

You have learned how to add dimension level members to the database outline and you've learned how to make decisions on how to best determine what categories of your data best fit as Essbase database outline dimensions.

You have learned the myriad available properties that a database outline member can have. For instance, how the child members consolidate their values to the parent member, or do the individual members store data or have it dynamically calculated.

You have also learned that there are several ways to actually update an Essbase database outline. You can perform any necessary task manually by using the EAS, but you can also perform most routine tasks automatically by either using a dimension build load process or by executing a MaxL command script.

You are now at a point where you should have...