New ODTUG Career Track Community + Kscope New Oracle Professional Tracks and...
Hi all! Last week I presented the first of a series of webinars that ODTUG will release talking about Oracle careers (if you want to check out the slides about ETL Developer Career webinar, click...
View ArticleDrill-Through with ASO Plan Types
If you are 11.1.2.4 and you use ASO Plan Types, you may be aware of a bug that prevents drill-through from working properly. Essentially, I can define drill-through in BSO and everything works fine,...
View ArticleODTUG Member Series: The Serial Diver
Debra Lilley is an icon in the Oracle world. Known for her leadership roles in UKOUG and IOUC, she is passionate about her Oracle user group participation. She travels the globe, speaks at conferences,...
View ArticleThe Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS No. 10, PBCS and metadata
The Big OneIn some ways I really enjoy writing these long ones – I get to really dive into a subject, I absolutely learn how to do something, and in theory I am imparting valuable information to you,...
View ArticleHow to Design the HFM Application to Store Permanent Data
Over the past few years, I’ve run into more clients who have asked for a solution in their Hyperion consolidation application to permanently store data. The common factor with these clients has been...
View ArticleHow to assign more than one owner for an Planning Unit
A interesting discussion came in Oracle OTN which says that having trouble in mapping Budgeting Requirement for approvals and data entry. Is there any way that we can have more than 1 user for any...
View ArticleEPM 11.1.2.x – Planning/PBCS Best Practices for BSO Business Rule Optimisation
1.IntroductionThis document is intended to provide best practices for Business Rule Optimisation for Planning and PBCS models. It will cover items which can be edited within the script only i.e....
View ArticleEssbase ASO Valid Consolidation Properties for Members
A quick cheat sheet of valid consolidation properties for Essbase ASO applications.CodeDescription% Express as a percentage of the current total in a consolidation (applies only to members of a dynamic...
View ArticleExalytics: Small Footprint, Faster Results (Part One)
In a few weeks time I’ll be delivering a webinar about Oracle Exalytics. The goal of the webinar won’t be to encourage you to run out and buy an Exalytics server, but rather to educate the public on...
View ArticleFDMEE Hybrid and the REST Part 3
On to the third part in this series looking at the new FDMEE hybrid functionality which was introduced in 11.1.2.4.200In the first part I went through the necessary configuration to get up and running...
View ArticleThe EPM Week In Review: Week Ending April 30, 2016
Patches and Updates:Shared Services 11.1.2.4.003 has been released. Looks like a small patch that fixes an LCM issue and a task flow issue. Interestingly, this does not appear to be a cumulative...
View ArticlecubeSavvy web-based Essbase grids: Beta 3 - double clicks
version 6.0.0 BETA 3 HighlightsImplemented mouse actions, such as control button+double-clicking to zoom in and control+right double-clicking to zoom out. You have to press the control button (Ctrl on...
View ArticleOracle PBCS June release updates
Per Oracle’s RCD for June 2016, the Oracle PBCS release is expected to have the following updates. Some of these updates are a huge improvement over the current version.New User Interface: A new...
View ArticleEssbase.cfg setting QUERYRESULTLIMIT
I had to piece together information from a few readme files to figure out what happened with the QUERYRESULTLIMIT essbase.cfg setting. It looks like the most complete information is in the Readme for...
View ArticleThe Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS, No. 11, PBCS and data
Short(ish) and sweet(ish)The previous post on this was long, too long maybe (Maybe? Definitely.) and certainly the longest post I’ve ever written if counting the pages in MS Word is a guide – 56 – and...
View ArticleDrill-Through in PBCS and Hyperion Planning Without FDMEE
While recently debugging an issue with FDMEE, I needed to test drill-through in Hyperion Planning without using FDMEE. But wait…can you even do that? I had always planned on showing how to use...
View ArticleUpcoming ODTUG Webinars
Below is the list of upcoming webinars. If there is a topic you would like covered that is not on our current list, or if you would like to present a webinar, please email Melissa@odtug.com. Did you...
View ArticleThe Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS, No. 12, PBCS and calculations
I have spared you Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Are you grateful?After my last bout of dead language infatuation, the answer is almost undoubtedly yes. Although I am sticking to the Queen’s...
View Article‘Unboxing’ Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS): Logging into...
Author: John McGale, Performance ArchitectsAfter you have procured your Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) environment, you should receive an email from Oracle that contains a direct...
View ArticleCreating 2020’s EPM Strategic Goals Today
We’ve seen remarkable change in the last two years. For example, 2015 was a record year for mergers and acquisitions. Altogether M&A volume hit an all-time high of over $5 trillion, surpassing...
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