Tag Archive for: Essbase

I received a number of questions when I attended KScope. A lot of people had a tough time wrapping their head around the fact that using Groovy could actually reduce cost and development time, and significantly decrease the effort to maintain an application. The feedback I get on my lightning lessons has been overwhelmingly positive. The basis of the concept of the use of Groovy making things simpler stems from understanding, using, and becoming confident using collections. I thought I would share some examples, use cases that you all use, and some samples to get those started. If you doubt Groovy can mean simpler and faster, I HOPE this will get you to at least think about coming over to the dark side and provide some perspective that will help.

I would like to create more of these and potentially move my training to be free. Before I can do that I need everybody to watch what I post AND subscribe! If I can generate enough of that, I can create enough add revenue to fun my effort and time. So subscribe, watch, and we will see what happens.

In the mean time, let me know what you think of having videos like this rather than traditional written content. If you would like to learn more about dynamic scripts for data maps, forms, and improving performance with Esssbase scripts by removing serial mode and threading the right way, head over to in2hyperion.podia.com. I have more lightening lessons ready for you to take advantage of!

 

You known what they say? Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Creating blocks with DATACOPY is only the second slowest way you can do it. Do you want to know how to create a calculation using a faster performing technique to create blocks while calculating the members in those blocks?

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There are a ton of reasons to convert a planning load file to an Essbase load file.  Maybe you are migrating a file from one environment to another, or simple want to load the file faster, but there are reasons to use the Essbase format. Read more

 

Oracle has recently added 2 fantastic new methods that significantly improve our ability to minimize our scripts and reduce the effort to build and maintain them.  The first is a method in the EPMScript class called cscParams.  The second is in the cube class named executeEssbaseScript. Read more

 

The good news is migrating to the cloud doesn’t change a lot when it comes to backing up your Essbase applications.  Conceptually, it is the same.  The utilities used are slightly different. Read more

 

Jake TurrellKscope wouldn’t be the same without checking out Jake – one of the best.  The amount of time and effort he puts into his presentations is crazy and it shows.  If you want to learn something new, below is schedule.  If you get a picture of him in his formal wear (you will know what I mean if you see it), please post a picture in a comment and tweet me…PLEASE!

Presentations

Introduction to the Hyperion Planning REST API
Monday, Jun 27, 2016, Session 6, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Introduction to Essbase Hybrid Aggregation Mode
Tuesday, Jun 28, 2016, Session 12, 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

Hands-on-Lab

Introduction to Essbase Hybrid Aggregation Mode
Wednesday, June 29, 4:30 – 5:30 PM

I can’t go this year because, oddly, Jake can’t work on our project.  So, you all enjoy – hope to see you all next year.

 

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For most Essbase applications, user and group security will be a necessity. Here are the steps to set up individual filters and then apply them to a group in Shared Services. Read more

 

Introduction

One of the problems with giving users of Hyperion Planning the ability to run calculations is opening up the possibility for all of them to run the same calculation at the same time.  Read more

 

Having been working on an ASO project for the last couple of months, I have learned a lot about Essbase and its related software. One of the things that gave me trouble at first was the syntax of CrossJoin in ASO’s MDX language. More specifically, I was having trouble trying to nest multiple CrossJoin’s together when I was trying to clear out a certain portion of data that included more than two dimensions. A CrossJoin is simple; it returns the cross-product of two sets from two different dimensions. But what if I want to return the cross product of four different dimensions? That one proved to be a little trickier Read more

 

Creating security filters and assigning them to different users/groups can be a time consuming process, especially if it is done manually. Luckily, there are some simple MaxL statements that can be used to significantly expedite the process. Here are the 3 that I’ve found to be most useful:

  • Create Filter
  • Alter Filter
  • Grant Filter

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