If you have a ASO cube where timing is everything or a cube with multiple large data sets, waiting for data loads to process in series can waste valuable time. Luckily, Essbase supports parallel data loads! Sadly…while the documentation for this isn’t bad, it is inaccurate. I’m sure it was accurate a few (or many)…
In our last post about Drillbridge, we did the basic introduction and then ran through the steps to get it up and running. But, in the interest of simplicity, we kept it simple. Now we are ready to get a little more complex. For today, a little more complex will be upper level drill-through. This…
Applied OLAP has officially completed the acquisition of Jason Jone’s Drillbridge product. This is great news for those of us that are fans of the product as it gives Drillbridge the backing of a company with a long-standing record of great support and other great products. Jason will now be working directly for Applied OLAP….
***Updated 2016/03/10 for Firefox Issue Fix*** So you have an existing Essbase model and you are finally ready to provide your end-users with drill-through. But wait…EIS is dead and buried and while Essbase Studio can be made to function with an existing cube, it is somewhat painful to actually make it work properly. On top…
Last year I had a post about working with strings in Essbase. To illustrate how to work with strings, I used a features called Essbase Format Strings. This basically allows us to return a value other than that of the intersection based on MDX logic. For instance, if a number is great than zero, return the…
I needed a break from the Planning repository and recently had a colleague inquire about getting the name of a member as a string value in ASO. This is a relatively simple process, but it occurred to me that when working with strings in Essbase, sometimes it helps to actually see what you are working with….
