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Hyperion Essbase Training

This Oracle Essbase Bootcamp training will teach you how to develop Essbase block storage databases. This specialized course gives you a firm foundation in basic database planning and development to expand your skill set.

Learn how to improve your organization’s performance through better, more informed decisions using Oracle Essbase, the market leading online analytical processing (OLAP) server for Enterprise Performance Management. Become more efficient at forecasting, variance analysis, root cause identification, scenario planning and what-if modeling to better align your organization’s resources and improve business results.

Learn To:

• Create block storage databases.
• Build rules files.
• Analyze data with Smart View.
• Create basic calculations.
• Extend analysis capabilities.
• Create a database outline, load data into the database and analyze data with Smart View.
• Perform advanced analysis on the database by implementing varying attribute dimensions and typed measures.

Essbase Overview

• Multidimensional Analysis
• Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management System
• Oracle BI Foundation Suite
• Essbase
• Production Environment Components

Designing Applications and Databases

• Essbase Implementation Process
• Analyzing and Planning Implementations
• Creating Applications and Databases
• Creating Outlines

Designing Data Descriptor Dimensions

• Data Descriptor Dimensions Overview
• Designing Time Dimensions
• Designing Scenario Dimensions
• Designing Accounts Dimensions

Optimizing Data Descriptor Dimensions

• Creating Member Aliases
• Dimension Types
• Creating Period-to-Date Totals
• Dynamic Calc Members
• Enhancing Accounts Dimensions

Creating Basic Dimension Build Rules Files

• Rules Files Overview
• Creating Dimension Build Rules Files
• Configuring Dimension Maintenance Settings

Creating Advanced Dimension Build Rules Files

• Advanced Dimension Build Rules Files Overview
• Creating Shared Members
• Manipulating Fields
• Creating User-Defined Attributes
• Creating Attribute Dimensions with Rules Files

Loading Data

• Data Load Overview
• Creating Data Load Rules Files
• Selecting and Rejecting Records
• Capturing New Members

Getting Started with Smart View

• Navigating Smart View
• Connecting to Data Sources
• Creating Ad Hoc Grids
• Setting the Point of View
• Associating Data Sources with Worksheets
• Creating Free-Form Grids

Creating Reports with Smart View

• Updating Essbase Data
• Integrating Essbase Data with Microsoft Office
• Creating Shared Database Perspectives
• Creating Custom Reports

Data Storage and Calculation

• Calculation Overview
• Database Calculation Order
• Data Block Fundamentals
• Data Blocks and the Index System
• Interpreting Database Statistics
• Data Block Creation
• Database Calculation Process

Creating Calculation Scripts

• Calculation Script Organization
• Returning Correct Calculation Results
• Troubleshooting CALC DIM Processes

Controlling the Calculation Process

• Focusing Calculations with FIX Statements
• Calculating Conditionally with IF Statements

Copying and Clearing Data

• Copying Data
• Clearing Data with CLEARDATA
• Clearing Data with CLEARBLOCK

Referencing Members in Calculations

• Referencing Members Explicitly
• Referencing Members Dynamically
• Creating Calculation Variables

Creating Attribute Dimensions

• Attribute Dimensions Overview
• Adding Attribute Dimensions to Outlines
• Design Considerations

Analyzing Varying Attributes

• Varying Attributes Overview
• Creating Varying Attributes
• Viewing Varying Attribute Data

Analyzing Text and Dates

• Typed Measures Overview
• Enabling Typed Measures
• Creating Text Measures
• Creating Date Measures
• Viewing Typed Measures
• Calculations Based on Typed Measures

Partitioning Overview

Creating Database Partitions

• Designing partitions
• Creating partitions
• Evaluating partition designs

Essbase Security Overview

• Essbase Native Security
• Global Access Security Layer
• User and Group Security Layer
• Application Access Type Security
• The Essbase Security File

Creating Essbase Security Filters

• The Essbase Security Filter Layer
• Creating Security Filters
• Filter Behavior
• Resolving Security Conflicts

Securing the Essbase Environment in Shared Services

• Shared Services Security
• Converting Essbase Users to Shared Services Security
• Provisioning Users in Shared Services
• External Authentication and Single Sign-on

Optimizing Block Storage Caches

• Optimizing the Database
• Optimizing Caches
• Setting RAM Caches
• Cache Hit Ratios

Managing Fragmentation

• Measuring Database Fragmentation
• Preventing and Reducing Database Fragmentation
• Removing Security File Fragmentation

Backing Up, Restoring, and Recovering Essbase Databases

• About Backup, Restore, and Recovery
• Manual Backup and Restore
• Automated Backup and Restore
• Manual Recovery
• Automated Recovery
• Recovering from a Server Interruption
• Recovering Corrupted Essbase Databases

Task Automation

• Automating Tasks Using MaxL
• The MaxL Command Shell
• MaxL Statements and Syntax