NTxHUG Meeting This Friday, August 12, 2016
The North Texas Hyperion User Group (NTxHUG) has a quarterly meeting this Friday, August 12, 2016 at 4:00 PM in Grapevine. With Kscope16 having just wrapped up, they have opted to just go with a social hour for this quarter. You can join everyone here: Brick House Tavern + Tap 700 TX-114 Grapevine, TX 76051 And for those that prefer a quick map:
Build Something Awesome: ODTUG GeekAThon
I included the content of this post in my Week In Review, but I think it deserves a separate post altogether. ODTUG GeekAThon is the first contest of this type that ODTUG has conducted, so let’s make it a success. This way we get more contests, more awesome ideas, and more prizes. So what’s this contest about? I don’t want to re-cap the entire GeekAThon website, but essentially they want you to build something out of the Beacon that you received at Kscope16. Using the Bluetooth Low Energy technology of the Beacon…solve a problem. Then show us how to do the same things. Go check out the site to find out more: GeekAThon Announcement GeekAThon Competition Website A few important dates for those of you interested: You must register by August 15, 2016, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must submit your video entry by September 23, 2016, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must submit your solution document by September 23, 2016, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. And for those of you who need a visual to assist in your
Hyperion EPM Week In Review: August 8, 2016
It was another light week in the Hyperion EPM blog community. Oracle however, did not help out with any new product releases. Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: None… Hyperion EPM Blog Posts: I posted about converting your applications to Hybrid Essbase this week. Vijay tells us about a error in the Oracle documentation for DRM. I’m certain you are all surprised that any of the Oracle docs could have mistakes. No? I guess I’m not either. Celvin shows us where Oracle hid the Migration button for environments where no application has yet been created. He also has a great post on making LCM content readable. Given the movement to the cloud and lack of accessibility to the repository in the future…this is great content. And it should work on-prem as well…if you were no inclined. Sibin tells us about the Essbase application log parser he is working on. He then tells us that it is actually available on GitHub. Go break it for him! John has a great post on cloud to cloud data movement. This has
Hybrid Essbase: Rapidly Make Parents Dynamic Calc
Hybrid Essbase is the biggest advancement in Essbase technology since ASO was released. It truly takes Essbase to another level when it comes to getting the best out of both ASO and BSO technology. Converting your application from BSO to Hybrid can be a long process. You have to make sure that all of your calculations still work the way they should. You have to make sure that your users don’t break Hybrid mode. You have to update the storage settings for all of your sparse dimensions. I can’t help you with the first items, they just take time and effort. What I can help you with is the time required to update your sparse dimensions. I spend a lot of time hacking around in the Planning repository. I suddenly found a new use for all of that time spent with the repository…getting a good list of all of the upper level members in a dimension. If we just export a dimension, we get a good list, but we have to do a lot of
Hyperion EPM Week In Review: August 1, 2016
It was a light week in the Hyperion EPM blog community. Oracle helped out a bit with some updates. Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: Tax Provision 11.1.2.4.103 has been released. As previously mentioned, totally out of my area of knowledge. The Oracle support site was updated this week. You can find out more here. Kash sent out updates for both PBCS and FCCS. Data management was added to FCCS, so that’s pretty huge. The PBCS updates aren’t too earth-shattering. cubeSavvy is officially production-ready! Harry has released version 6.0.0. Get your web-based Essbase going in production! Hyperion EPM Blog Posts: Sarah has a guide on installing Oracle 12c on Windows. Her sample covers the multi-tenant version of 12c. If you’d like a single-tenant version, you can always check out Jake’s post here. She also has a post on BICS data sync. Both very thorough posts. Tim reflects on his time spent at Kscope and the preparations that go into it. I’d encourage everyone to read his comments and consider submitting an abstract for Kscope17. Francisco has an
Hyperion EPM Week In Review: July 23, 2016
Welcome to another Monday edition of the Hyperion EPM Week In Review. Let’s just jump right in… Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: Disclosure Management 11.1.2.3.820 has been released. This one is way out of my wheel-house, so… OBIEE 11.1.1.9.160719 has also been released. This is an extrememly long patch number and includes a extremely long list of bug fixes across the BI stack. Not to be outdone…OBIEE 11.1.1.7.160719 has been released with its 11.1.1.9 sibling. And just to round out the entire OBIEE family, 12.2.1.0.160719 was released as well. Hyperion EPM Blog Posts: Opal has several posts this week. First, a review of Tony’s book, The Definitive Guide to FDMEE. Next up is an ODTUG post about Jorge Rimblas. Jorge is an Oracle ACE with a heavy interest in photography. Heading back to the cloud she has a pair of posts on finding your version number and enabling data management in FCCS. Celvin shows us the details of a pretty big bug in the date difference functions built into Calc Manager. The good news is that there