Building a Hyperion Home Lab: Choosing Your Storage
It’s finally time for the last piece of our Home Lab before we put it all together. Where do we store our data? There are three main areas that come to mind when we start to put together our storage...
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Keeping Commitments Leads to Growth
Running a business of any size has many challenges and rewards. When we founded CheckPoint Consulting ten years ago, the market that we served and the general business landscape looked very different...
View ArticleWomen in Technology Scholarship - Accepting Applications
2016 Women in Technology Scholarship As part of our continuing effort to offer learning opportunities in all areas relevant to our membership, ODTUG is pleased to announce the second annual ODTUG Women...
View ArticleNew Quick Links Page
I decided to add a new Quick Links page to the site. Like many of you, I go from version to version and environment to environment a lot. This page includes links to all of the active documentation...
View ArticleNew Tech Journal Article Now Available
Oracle Apps UX Team Report: Looking Back and Community Innovation Submitted by Kathy Miedema, Oracle Apps UX Check out the latest from the Oracle Apps UX Team. This group, which sponsored the ODTUG...
View ArticleNew Tech Journal Article Now Available
Oracle Apps UX Team Report: Release 10 UX Highlights, Strategy, and HCM Cloud Submitted by Kathy Miedema, Oracle Apps UX Check out the latest from the Oracle Apps UX Team. This group, which sponsored...
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Performance Testing Essbase Drill Through Reports
OverviewIn this post I’ll show a few techniques I used to test performance of Essbase Drill Through Reports. I personally found those techniques useful, but i’m not saying there’s no better way to...
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EPM Automate in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS)
Author: Tom Blakeley, Performance ArchitectsEPM Automate is the utility used in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) that is used to manage automation routines, including the upload of...
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Creating the Sample Vision Planning Application with Oracle EPM Versions...
The steps below document the process of creating and initializing the sample Vision Planning application with Oracle EPM versions 11.1.2.3.500 and 11.1.2.4.Note that this process has changed beginning...
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Export Data to UNIX Box from Windows DOS Script
Another short and sweet one today. If you have UNIX box for your Essbase server but have automation on a Windows server, how can you write the MaxL so that it automates/runs from Windows but exports to...
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Avoiding Variables in ODI File Copy
Copying files in ODI is a trivial task. There are many ways to do it (ODIFileCopy, Procedures, OSCommand etc.) One of the biggest issues though is when you need to move from environment to environment....
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EPM in the Jungle: Part Two-Cutting a Path
In the first part of this blog I discussed the dilemma facing decision makers as they look to the future of EPM within their environments. I discussed the myriad of choices the modern CIO faces with...
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Random Tip: Using WebLogic Admin Server to Monitor Services
Happy Friday! There’s nothing quite like needing to restart one or all of your EPM services. First you have to shut it all down and make sure it’s actually down. Then you have to start it up in the...
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Bulk upload valid intersections in PBCS
Well with all good things (and bad) there is a beginning and for this one I can point out where it started :)There was this question on Network 54 which was a definite fit for Valid Intersections....
View ArticleThe EPM Week In Review: Week Ending February 20, 2016
Two weeks…two weeks in review. Let’s see how long we can keep this up!Patches and Updates:The Essbase 11.1.2.4.007 patch has been released. This comes with a server patch along with the various...
View ArticleBuilding a Hyperion Home Lab: Putting It All Together
Now that we’ve made it through all of the different components, let’s summarize everything so that we can get a clear view of the total budget and what exactly it is that we get for the money we are...
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HFM Progresses While Reporting Needs Remain Steadfast
Our Enterprise Performance Management landscapes are changing. With an increased emphasis on efficiency, reporting and a new found stress on the information technology industry, being a project...
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OBIEE – Adding a Custom Logo in 12c
Recently, I was given the requirement to swap out the default Oracle logo with a custom logo in an OBI EE 12.2.1.0.0 environment on a Windows server. Although, this is not a difficult task, I thought...
View ArticleLatest Patches, Quick Links, and Presentations
I’ve been tinkering with the site lately and now I think most of the content should be ready to publish. First, I had someone recently ask for a few of my older presentations, so I figured it was time...
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FDMEE Mapping Part II: Taking on the Complexity of Large Mapping Volume Size
Welcome back! In Part I of this series, member mappings and the mapping process in FDMEE were explained. Now that a brief introduction has been given, we will go continue on identifying the reasoning...
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