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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


Wow, who knew Essbase was such an easy to use and versatile tool when it came to loading data and maintaining your outline?

Let's see, we have covered the how and why of making your data Essbase-friendly. We have also learned what it means to make data Essbase-friendly and what you need to do to make it so.

As if that wasn't enough, you've also learned all about what are referred to as data sources for Essbase. You now know that a data source can be merely data values you load into your Essbase database, based on a predefined database outline and data attributes accompanying the data values.

You have learned about the various types of data sources, how Essbase deals with them, and what you need to do to filter, manipulate, or cleanse them before use.

After all of that, we took all what you've learned about data and data sources and applied it by creating your first data load rules in Oracle Essbase. You then used that load rule to load some honest to goodness real data into your Esscar...