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Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By : Jose R Ruiz
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Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook

By: Jose R Ruiz

Overview of this book

Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios. This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further. Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying a cube


In this recipe, we will deploy the TBC cube that we set up in the recipes Developing Cube Schema and Essbase model and Setting Essbase properties in Chapter 3. We will be adding an Application and Database using Essbase Administration Service, incrementally building the outline, and loading the TBC data.

Getting ready

To get started, click on the Start menu and navigate to Programs | Oracle EPM System | Essbase | Essbase Studio. Log in to Essbase Studio using your server, username, and password.

How to do it…

  1. Click on the Start menu and navigate to Programs | Oracle EPM System | Essbase | Administration Services | Start Administration Services Consol. The login menu will pop up. Enter your administration server, username, password, and click on the Log in button.

  2. Drill down on Essbase Server. Drill down on localhost of your Essbase Server, right-click on Applications, click on Create Applications, click on Using Block Storage in the menu and enter in TBC in the Application...