Weekly Offenders – Week Ending 7/15/2017
Introduction to Weekly Offenders This week was a bit busier than last week. We even had a few more posts about Kscope17 this week. What new this week? Adeshek EPM Gary has a pair of posts this week. First, he went and started his own Oracle User group for the Detroit Area (DOUG). He also dives head-first into the Essbase behind Oracle’s cloud ERP. EPM Marshall I continued my series focusing on Essbase Performance. This week we started talking about physical vs. virtual Essbase performance. Exploits in Hyperion Sibin started off the week with a post about keeping your downstream systems in mind when making changes. He then has a post re-capping his series on Universal Data Access in FDMEE. More to Life… John Goodwin has an excellent post showing off the new clearcube functionality in EPM Automate and the REST API for PBCS. Finally…ASO clears can be executed via batch! Oracle Business Analytics – Proactive Support Blog The Proactive Support Blog brings us news of just one on-prem patch this week. Oracle Hyperion Tax
Essbase Performance: Part 7 – Physical vs. Virtual – Native Loads
Welcome to the seventh part in an on-going blog series about Essbase performance. Today we will focus on Essbase Physical vs. Virtual Performance, but first here’s a summary of the series so far: Essbase Performance Series: Part 1 – Introduction Essbase Performance Series: Part 2 – Local Storage Baseline (CDM) Essbase Performance Series: Part 3 – Local Storage Baseline (Anvil) Essbase Performance Series: Part 4 – Network Storage Baseline (CDM) Essbase Performance Series: Part 5 – Network Storage (Anvil) Essbase Performance Series: Part 6 – Essbase and Hyper-Threading Essbase Performance Series: Part 7 – Physical vs. Virtual – Native Loads I started sharing actual Essbase benchmark results in part six of this series, focusing on Hyper-Threading. Today I’ll shift gears away from physical Essbase testing and focus on virtualized Essbase. Testing Configuration All testing is performed on a dedicated benchmarking server. This server changes software configurations between Windows and ESXi, but the hardware configuration is static. Here is the physical configuration of the server: I partitioned each of the storage devices into equal halves: one
Weekly Offenders – Kscope17/Holiday Hangover Edition
Introduction to Weekly Offenders Last week I started by up my weekly review of EPM blogging. There was quite a bit of content with Kscope17 having just finished up and everyone seemed excited to contribute to the community. Between the holidays and everyone recovering from Kscope…last week wasn’t nearly as productive. However, it was an odd week with a holiday in the middle of the week. And luckily, Oracle had a few on-prem patching to keep things interesting. Here we go! Adeshek EPM Gary has a PSA for us regarding Smart View in Office 2016. Microsoft broke something… Cameron’s Blog for Essbase Hackers Cameron wrapped up his coverage of Kscope17. He takes a lot more pictures than I do…I should work on that. The EPM Lab The EPM Lab is a new addition to my EPM Blog List. Jun has a post this week showing off the new Strategic Modeling portion of EPBCS. EPM Marshall I had a pair of posts this week. First I wished everyone in America a Happy Independence Day. Next, I
Essbase Performance Part 6: Hyper-Threading
Essbase Performance Series Welcome to the sixth part in an on-going blog series about Essbase performance. Here’s a summary of the series so far: Essbase Performance Series: Part 1 – Introduction Essbase Performance Series: Part 2 – Local Storage Baseline (CDM) Essbase Performance Series: Part 3 – Local Storage Baseline (Anvil) Essbase Performance Series: Part 4 – Network Storage Baseline (CDM) Essbase Performance Series: Part 5 – Network Storage (Anvil) Essbase Performance Series: Part 6 – Essbase and Hyper-Threading Now that EssBench is official, I’m ready to start sharing the benchmarks in Essbase and some explanation. Much of this was covered in my Kscope17 presentation, but if you download the PowerPoint, it lacks some context. My goal is to provide that context via my blog. We’ll start off with actual Essbase benchmarks around Hyper-Threading. For years I’ve always heard that Hyper-Threading was something you should always turn off. This normally lead to an argument with IT about how you even go about turning it off and if they would support turning it off. But before
Happy Independence Day!
I hope everyone enjoys their day off! Adobe gave me some great free stock art for the 4th…so I had to use it! The History Channel has a nice page dedicated to the History of Independence Day. </shortest blog post ever>
Weekly Offenders – Kscope17 Edition
Introduction to Weekly Offenders I had a lot of luck doing a weekly update about the blogging community in the Oracle EPM space. You may have all noticed that I had a lot less luck doing a monthly update. I found that everyone posts too much content to keep up with doing an update just once a month. So…back to weekly! Now that Kscope17 is in the rear-view mirror, I can finally get back to bogging more regularly. As part of that, the week in review is back! To keep with the corny theme of my newly branded website, welcome to the first in a weekly series I’m naming Weekly Offenders. For the first post back, we’ll put particular emphasis on Kscope17-related blog posts. Let’s get started! Cameron’s Blog for Essbase Hackers Cameron has a LOT of posts regarding Kscope17. Thanks for the coverage! Day 0 Day 1 Day 1, Part 2 Day 2, Part 1 EPM Junkie Keith also has a lot of posts about Kscope17. He also sneaks in a post about splitting multi-period