2. Oracle Essbase New Features and Roadmap Update
2015 Edition
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Business Analytics
October 2015
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4. Program Agenda 1
Essbase Roadmap Drivers What’s New? What’s Coming 2 3

5. Performance | Ease of Use I Business Value
Roadmap Strategy
EPM
Calc language enhancements
Facilitate goal seeking and target setting
Incremental financial logic
Data in varying time granularities
Account types
Financial aggregation logic BI
Transparent introduction into the semantic model
Query performance
MDX enhancements
BI query acceleration
Rapid scenario modeling
Cloud
Smaller footprint
Reduce downtime
Self-tuning
Auto-recovery
12c
EPM 12c
Performance | Ease of Use I Business Value

6. Oracle Essbase – What’s New?
Enhanced Capabilities in , Exalytics and BI 12c
Smartview Calc Script launcher with context aware substitution variables
In-Place write reduces database fragmentation
Continue to enrich the calc language
Background write deliver high performance for NFS with Exalytics
Essbase Query Acceleration in BI 12c
Anonymous data export
Controlled shutdown
Eliminates most cases of database corruption

7. BSO/ASO Hybrid Aggregation Mode
Combine the flexibility of BSO models with ASO performance
Adding ASO-like Solve Order to BSO
Will eventually replace two-pass
Default solve order matches BSO dynamic calc sequence (Except for attributes)
Differences between “old flow” and hybrid flow
Multiple sparse dimensions using unary aggregation which include * or /
Forward looking references
Support for Attributes
Essbase Cloud Service will be the first version that Hybrid delivers 100% coverage and is the default storage for new databases

8. Non-Aggregating Attribute Dimensions
Hybrid databases only
Improves performance where attribute calculations are not required
Cannot comingle aggregating and non-aggregating attribute dims on the same grid
Which one is the attribute in this image?

9. Run Time Substitution Variables
Run time sub-variables that can be initialized at the calc script level and changed at run time
Opens up Essbase for new analytics use cases
Allow concurrent users to perform custom advanced analytics using different parameters
EXECUTE CALCULATION Sample.Basic.Calc3 WITH RUNTIMESUBVARS ‘salesNum=100;Discount=50’;
SET RUNTIMESUBVARS { myMarket = “California”; myCity = “Sunnyvale”, “Santa Clara”, “San Jose”; salesNum = 100; startDate pointD = “Actual”->”Final”; };

10. Smartview Calc Script Launcher
Subject to Change
Execute parameterized calculation scripts
Utilizing Run-time substitution variables
Context based selections
Manual member selection options {
rtsv = member_name | POV
<RTSV_HINT>
<svLaunch>
<description> RTSV description </description>
<type> member | string | number | date </type>
<dimension> dimension name </dimension>
<choice> single | multiple </choice>
<allowMissing> true | false </allowMissing>
<limit> member list | numeric range </limit>
</svLaunch>
</RTSV_HINT> };

11. Controlled Shutdown Updated Alter System Unload MaxL command
Starting with
Updated Alter System Unload MaxL command
NO_FORCE keyword
Prevent inconsistencies between OPMN’s perceived state of Essbase and reality
Eliminate command line “kill’ of ESSSRVR and ESSBASE

12. Anonymous Data Export Enhancement to Maxl Export syntax
Provides an incremented value for each populated cell in a block

13. Essbase on Exalytics: Background Write
Eliminates IO wait during processing
Significant performance gains with remote storage over NFS (up to 30X)
Background Write – Performance Gains
Remote Storage
Improvement
BSO Dataload
4586.7
159.02
2784%
BSO Export
772.77
689.39
12%
BSO Restructure
307%
BSO CALC DENSE
770.33
286.05
169%
BSO CALC SPARSE
297.13
620%
BSO CALC AllyFin
445.64
159.45
179%
BSO CALC CocaCola
669.58
464%

14. Essbase on Exalytics: In-Place Write
Slows the fragmentation rate
Reduce the need for restructure
Shorten maintenance window
~20% DB growth over standard cube
“Exalytics first” optimization
Coming soon to commodity

15. What’s Coming Subtitle
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16. Oracle Essbase – What’s Coming?
Essbase Cloud Service Brings a Host of New Features
Hybrid BSO/ASO delivers full coverage of BSO functionalities
New Essbase database web based administration tool
Quick database creation by uploading an Excel spreadsheet
New platform capabilities
Scenario management - Lightweight workflow
Sandboxing - Create a personal slice of the database
New Java based architecture

17. Infrastructure as a Service
Data as a Service
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Essbase Cloud Service
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18. PBCS Fusion EssCS FCCS EPRCS
a flexible Essbase platform that supports the creation of custom analytic applications for enterprise-wide or departmental analysis, and management reporting in a cloud-based deployment model.
FCCS
EPRCS

19. Functionality and Use Cases
Excel Backend, MDD on the Cloud
Platform to develop your own Performance Management application
Server side database for LOB who uses Excel in their operation
New capabilities for scenario management and sandboxing
Reduce risk and TCO for Essbase deployment
Simple solution for small departments with minimum or no IT support
Essbase for BICS/OBI and multi-site reporting for EPM
Use Essbase as an alternative data store to Schema as a Service
Offer Essbase multidimensional and analytics capabilities
Read-write access to the BI data via Smatview (e.g. Sandboxing, sensitivity analysis)
Eliminate the need for an Essbase skill set for OBI customers
Headless PaaS
Exposing Essbase capabilities as REST/Webservices with JSON/XML payload
Oriented at partner applications and on-prem tools
Fully Managed Solution Licensed by User/Month

20. Java Agent - Essbase J2EE Cloud Platform
Subject to Change
CDS
Scenario
Management
Thin Client
Editor
Catalog
Java
Agent
Dynamic
Filters
DBX
Drill
Through
Scripting: R, Groovy,
JACL
Data
Source
Grid UI
APS
Java API, REST and Web Services
Unified Engine (ASO/BSO)
Background Write
In-Place Write …
Re-architecture of the main Essbase agent
Designed to support higher concurrency
Elimination of SEC file
Managed within Weblogic console
Part of either EPM or BI Domain
Unified middleware layer for all services

21. Essbase R Provide a library to read and write Essbase data from R
Subject to Change
Provide a library to read and write Essbase data from R
connect
mdx2Array
writeBack
Future direction
Allow Essbase users to trigger R from Essbase
Embedded R in Calc Scripts
Generic capability to allow the extendibility of Essbase with 3rd party scripting languages

22. New Application Platform Capabilities
Subject to Change
Sandboxing
Create a personal slice of the database
Refresh/Merge the base data or discard it
Scenario Management
Lightweight workflow
Attached to a sandbox
Approver and viewer type roles

23. Cell status
Subject to Change
Cell status will allow to track if, when and how a particular cell in the cube was created or modified
Will track how the cell was created – Load, Calc, Manual Entry, Dynamic
Transaction ID for the latest transaction that modified the cell
Cell statuses will be accessible via CALC Scripts, API and MAXL
Working towards expanding text lists to multiple dimensions to support textual return

24. Cell Status – System Managed Statuses
Subject to Change
UNKNOWN(0) - reported when the status is not known
LOADED(1) – loaded from an external source
INPUT(2) - data was entered into the cell by using a spreadsheet lock-and- send or grid update
DYNAMIC(3) - Dynamic Calc in POV
DERIVED(4) – data was derived automatically by the system
CALCULATED(5) - data which was calculated by a user process

25. Cloud Required a New Tool
Subject to Change
Neither Studio or EAS were suitable for the cloud
On-prem customers can still use the existing tools and LCM to the Cloud
Two new directions
Tool based: New thin-client tool
Tool-less: Excel as the design tool for Essbase

26. In Summary Cloud is driving many new capabilities and features
Hybrid takes center stage
New Java platform
New tools
New capabilities
Essbase is Essbase, but we do not plan for 100% feature parity in v1
See us at Demopod 3715

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