Essbase Tips N Tricks

Sep 30th, 2005

Charles Chatman Solutions Consultant

Webcast Agenda

Overview of EAS Discuss Migration Discuss Unicode Triggers Overview of Visual Explorer Demo of EAS Demo of Visual Explorer

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EAS Overview
Administration Services Console makes Analytic Services administration tasks easy to perform. The console provides wizards, editors, dynamic menus, and other tools to help you implement, monitor, and maintain Analytic Services.

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EAS Features

Cross Platform Support Enterprise View Custom views of Analytic Services Dynamic Menus Wizards Script Editors Message Panel Extensive Online Help

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EAS Architecture Overview

Administrative Services works with Essbase in a three tier system that consists of a client user interface, and middle tier server and one or more database servers. The Middle Tier coordinates interaction and resources between the User interface and the Analytic Server.

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EAS Architecture
Client Tier

Java Console Administration Server One or more Analytic Servers

Middle Tier

Database Tier

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EAS Additional Components

Essbase Deployment Services HUB

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EAS Third Party Components

An Application Server Application RDBMS Java Runtime Environment

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Upgrading to EAS best practices

Verify that you have all documentation and software required for installation. Decide how you want to deploy Admin Services. Ensure that youve met all prerequisets. Confirm that youre platform is supported by EAS Export User information (optional) Backup the Directory used to store Objects.

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Aggregate Storage

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What Is Aggregate Storage?

A new storage kernel Aggregate-intensive cubes Larger numbers of dimensions and members Optimized for sparser data sets, operational analytics Significantly reduces calculation times and disk footprint Designed to work seamlessly with existing interfaces and user skills

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Accessing a Wider Application Set

Dense data sets Hyperion Essbase is well suited for block storage ROLAP Block Storage Dual Storage (Block Storage/ Aggregate Storage) Aggregate Storage ROLAP technologies are well suited for aggregate storage Simple calc (high aggregation)
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Aggregate Storage

Sparse data sets

Complex calc (complex analytics)

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Delivering End-to-End Support

Query & Reporting 3rd Party Integration

Analysis

Dashboards

Hyperion Essbase

Budgeting & Financial Consolidations

Block Storage Aggregate Storage
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Forecasting & Profitability Analysis

Procurement & Logistics Analysis

Customer Analysis

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Combined Solution
To maximize functionality, combine
Historical and Forecast Federated View Aggregate or Block Storage Transparent Partition SKU Product Profitability Aggregate Storage Option Product Profitability Forecast Dense/Sparse Storage Option Multi user write back

Highly additive and dimensional

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High write back and analytical

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Calculating Aggregate Storage Databases

To improve retrieval performance, Analytic Services can aggregate values and store them ahead of time. Aggregating and storing all values requires disk space for storage. Analytic Services provides an intelligent aggregation process that balances time and storage resources.

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Unicode

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Unicode

Through its Unicode implementation, Essbase Analytic Services enables employees of global businesses to view, in their own languages, company information stored in their Analytic Services databases.

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Unicode

Analytic Services users whose computers are set up in different languages can work with the same database.

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Example member names

Not Unicode-enabled Essbase

Max member name is 80 bytes Multibyte languages get fewer characters Japanese gets 40-80 chars, Chinese fewer

Unicode-enabled Essbase
Max member name is 80 characters Can be up to 320 bytes

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Example - database names

Not-Unicode-enabled Essbase
Max database name is 8 bytes Multibyte languages get fewer characters Japanese gets 4-8, Chinese gets fewer

Unicode-enabled Essbase
Max database name is 30 characters Can be up to 120 bytes

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Triggers

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Triggers
Triggers provide efficient monitoring of data changes in a database. If data meets conditions specified in a trigger, Analytic Services can send an email alert (to a user or system administrator) or record relevant information in a log file. For example, you might want to send an email to the sales manager if, in the Western region, sales for a month fall below sales for the equivalent month in the previous year.

Triggers
Fired on a data state change (On Update) over a monitored slice Fired after data state change (After Update) over a monitored slice Actions are an email or spool to file Based on MDX

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Data Driven Events - Triggers

A change in Data State (value change) that exceeds a threshold

A data load A data update A calculation

A data cell is touched, regardless of value

A data load A data update A calculation

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Example
Track inventory level for Juice in East for every time period
Condition: Inventory level must be greater than or equal to 500,000. Action: Inform sales office in inventory level goes below 500,000

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Example
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER Inventory_East WHERE CROSSJOIN ({ DESCENDANTS ([YEAR])}, {([MARKET]. [EAST], [PRODUCT]. [JUICE], [INVENTORY].[BOTTLES])}) WHEN [INVENTORY].[BOTTLES] < 500,000 THEN MAIL([pencil.hyperion.com], [SaleMgr@hyperion.com, REGIONALSALES@ESSBASE.COM], [inventory@hyperion.com], [Inventory Department]) END;

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EAS Summary

Cross Platform Support Enterprise View Custom views of Analytic Services Environment Dynamic Menus Wizards Script Editors Message Panel Extensive Online Help

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Migration

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Migration
Typical Hyperion Essbase migration:

Move the application and assoc files from one server to another Upgrade server to a newer version Move applications from Dev to Prod

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Migration Components
Examples of Migration Components:

Application
Outline Load Rules Data Calc Scripts Report Scripts Configuration Files Security Filters

Security
Users Groups

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Migration Commands
Examples of Migration Commands:

Begin Archive/End Archive

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Visual Explorer

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HVE Overview

Hyperion Visual Explorer (HVE) helps you explore and analyze data in a Hyperion Analytic Services database. Specifically, it provides an interface for creating graphical summaries and reports of data in a highly interactive environment.

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What is Hyperion Visual Explorer?

Spreadsheet Analysis metaphor delivered via a highly graphical visual paradigm Based on a powerful Visual Query Language that describes how to visualize the data
Adapts visual representation based on the layout of the metrics and members

Allows more productive analysis across many dimensions/members

Quickly identify outliers, under/over achievers, variances

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Visual Explorer Summary

Explore Analyze Visualize

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Questions

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