Essbase (Zola) Advanced Team Training Aneel Shenker – Essbase Product Management July 28th, 2009

Essbase (Zola) Overview Bugfixes Localized release as (Dickens) Calc Manager support for BSO Fusion Financials and E-Business Suite Data and Metadata Loading Drill-through/ drill-Back See also ERP Integrator ATT recording July 22 nd, 2009

Unified Calculation Management Essbase and “Classic” EPM Apps Calculation Manager Single interface for Hyperion Planning, Financial Management and Essbase Graphical flow provides better understanding of calculation process Re-usable rules to share among applications Central repository of all calculation objects For Essbase BSO, deployment step will push the generated calc script to the Essbase server.

Drill-through Overview Provide data drill back capabilities ERP Integrator Drill-through to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Source Application – EPMA Creates Planning or HFM cubes Non-planning Essbase not supported in Zola Target URL – ERPI landing page Fusion Financials Source Application – Fusion Financials Creates Essbase cubes Target URL – Fusion GL

Drill-through Overview EAS Define Drill through definitions using MaxL EBS ERPI

FDM ERP Integrator Process. Fact Data Shared Staging Tables ERP Integrator EPM Apps Reporting Smart view FR FDM E-Business Suite General Ledgers E-Business Suite Drill Back Drill Data File-based Data or SQL Pull SAP EPMA Metadata & Data PeopleSoft Source Target Dimensions & Hierarchies Oracle Data Integrator

Drill-through Essbase Persistence Persisted in.db file No outline restructure on DT editing Dynamically use the latest DTs Database copy handles.db files

Creating Drill-through definitions Fusion Financials or EPMA will create Drillable Essbase cubes by storing drill through XML URLs Components of Drill-through definitions: (a) Name: Name of the drill through definition (b) XML containing Drill through-URL. Contains URL Link which will is used for drill-through to landing page. (c) URL Level-0 Flag: A Boolean flag indicating whether drill through only is available at level 0. (d) Drillable region definitions: Symmetric regions defined using CALF functions. - Multiple entries text input (Ex: table), each entry requires member set + member CALF functions are metadata functions that can be used for security definitions or for specifying drillable regions for DT.

Example URL Name: “Drill through to Fusion GL” URL XML: ………… URL Level-0 Flag: True Drillable region: region 1: ‘current_assets, Oct-08’ region 2: 08)’

Drill-through XML - Babelfish XML contains drill-through URL etc Babelfish compliant Clients resolve the URL links

Babelfish URL Link Example NTEXT$&$ATTR(ds,pos,gen,level.edge)$ Substitution variables Server, port variables SSO token POV context (fully qualified names) Grid specific variable like edge, position Gen, level information Landing page resolved into fully qualified URL Intersection, layout etc

Main API Changes New C API for managing Drill-through definitions Corresponding Java API Clients get cell drill through definitions through Babelfish XML

Query API Changes Grid API New query option for color coding (ESSG_OP_GET_DRILLTHRU_URLS) New flag for GL URL drillable cells (ESSG_CA_GLDT) New API EssGGetIsCellDrillable MDX API New query option for color coding New flag for GL URL drillable cells New API EssMdxIsCellDrillable No support for Report Writer

Clients Supported Smart View through APS Planning forms through Planning FR through ADM driver No support for Excel Addin

Administrative Interfaces Essbase Administration services MaxL scripting

EAS Drill-through Management Right-click on db to edit DT definitions

EAS Drill-through Management

New Drill Through MaxL statements The following MaxL statements are available for managing drill through definitions. create/alter drillthru app.db. urlName using xml_file “temp.xml” on level0 only ; - For creating or editing drill through definitions Drop drillthru app.db.urlName; - For deleting drill through definition Display drillthru app.db; - For viewing all available drill through definitions on a particular database Display drillthru app.db.urlName; - For viewing a drill through definition

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