by johnabooth | Feb 6, 2015 | Exalytics
Just getting back from Kscope15 where I saw most of the familiar blog folks (in no particular order): Glenn Schwartzberg, Cameron Lackpour, Tim Tow, Tim German, Francisco Amores, Sarah Zumbrum, Celvin K, and John Goodwin. Cameron convinced several of us a second book...
by johnabooth | Feb 6, 2015 | Exalytics, Uncategorized
Just getting back from Kscope15 where I saw most of the familiar blog folks (in no particular order): Glenn Schwartzberg, Cameron Lackpour, Tim Tow, Tim German, Francisco Amores, Sarah Zumbrum, Celvin K, and John Goodwin. Cameron convinced several of us a second book...
by johnabooth | Apr 22, 2016 | General News
Oracle’s evolving EPM Suite since 2014 For those of you who visited KSCOPE14 the landscape has been changing quite a bit. We’ve seen the 11.1.2.4 release come to light as well as a huge cloud push. On the cloud topic, industry pundits say by 2020 the majority of...
by johnabooth | Apr 22, 2016 | General News, Uncategorized
Oracle’s evolving EPM Suite since 2014 For those of you who visited KSCOPE14 the landscape has been changing quite a bit. We’ve seen the 11.1.2.4 release come to light as well as a huge cloud push. On the cloud topic, industry pundits say by 2020 the majority of...
by johnabooth | Sep 12, 2015 | General News
The next iteration of Developing Essbase Applications featuring all new material is now available for ordering on Amazon! My chapter is already slightly out dated in that now Oracle has certified having 10 virtual machines on the X Series of Exalytics when using the...
by johnabooth | Aug 22, 2015 | Just make it work
A business need which has become quite common in the last two to five years is taking your budget/plan data and placing it in a reporting application. Although Oracle has made ASO capabilities part of Planning it’s not always the best fit especially if...
by johnabooth | Jul 14, 2015 | Just make it work
While working on an ASO optimization problem we need to use the full data set however have it be scrubbed. Based on client preference I went down the MS route and started using Regular Expressions in VB Script. This quickly became a frustrating exercise as these...
by johnabooth | Jun 30, 2015 | Essbase, Licensing
There is quite a chain on Network 54 Essbase forum regarding Hybrid. If you haven’t heard yet Hybrid is the future of the Essbase OLAP engine combining the Block Storage and Aggregate Storage Engines together for the best of both world. The 11.1.2.4 release is...
by johnabooth | Jun 26, 2015 | Exalytics
What I really want for Christmas (or Easter) is Exalytics X5-2 (a cry out to product management) At Kscope15 this year we see Oracle is talking about the newest model in the X series of Exalytics the X5-4. The X5-4 is the bigger brother to the X4-4. Both the 4-4 and...
by johnabooth | Jun 26, 2015 | Just make it work
Dusting some things off here post Kscope 15. This doesn’t look like it saw the light of day. As an aside 11.1.2.4 still has the password should contain no special characters clause. Do read the last few sentences if you use products requiring the repository...
