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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

Reporting with the Microsoft Excel Add-in


Assuming you have the Essbase Add-in for Microsoft Excel installed on your PC you will see the Essbase menu pick available on the main Microsoft Excel menu toolbar.

If you read how to install the add-in but did not do it, please install it now for you will need it in this chapter.

If you have installed the add-in but do not see the Essbase menu pick there is no need to re-install the add-in. Occasionally the Essbase add-in will not load when you open a new instance of Microsoft Excel. If this happens you can simply re-load the add-in by following the steps below.

Steps to reload the Essbase Add-in into Microsoft Excel:

  1. 1. In Microsoft Excel, with at least the default blank workbook open, navigate to the Add-Ins screen by clicking on Tools | Add-Ins in Microsoft Excel version 2003 and earlier or by clicking Add-Ins directly in Microsoft Excel version 2007.

  2. 2. From the Add-Ins screen select the Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server DLL (non-Unicode) by checking...