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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


We hope you have found the information in this chapter as fun, exciting, and useful as we have. As we've said repeatedly throughout this book, it should be no wonder to you why Oracle Essbase is the number one data analytics tool in the world! It's almost as though Essbase is a product that is never finished, because just when you think it can't get any better, it gets even better!

You should now have a good understanding of the two very different but complimentary Essbase database architectures. The BSO is the old standby foundation in the world of Essbase, and the ASO is the streamlined speedster.

The differences in many cases between ASO and BSO are minor, but their affect can be dramatic. The BSO utilizes the standard data block method of storing data, while the ASO uses the aggregate method. The BSO is built for rugged and robust computing and analysis. The ASO is built for high speed, high volume data analysis and reporting.

We're sure you see by now that whether you use ASO,...