Introducing: EssBench
Background What on earth is EssBench? First…some background. I have a number of clients who have transitioned to either new physical hardware, have been virtualized, or are being sent to the cloud. All of these options bring along challenges around performance. When you go to new physical hardware, you might end up attached to network storage. When you go to a virtualized environment, performance generally suffers across the board, and when you go to the cloud, any number of things can happen. So what do those clients do? You really have three options to get IT to help you: Option 1: Test your application on your old system and compare it to your new system This presents a problem as the old system has a variety of differences, including the version of Essbase most likely Option 2: Test your application on an independent system and compare it to your new system This can be done, but it sounds expensive to either borrow another companies instance or have your consultant do this Option 3: Test a
Kscope17 is a Wrap!
Kscope17 is officially over. I was fortunate to attend several sessions this year along with presenting a few times myself. It’s always great to get together with the ODTUG community and all of my friends that I only get to see a few times a year. Kscope is a great event and I’m happy to have been a part of it. I greatly appreciate the immense amount of work that went into making it such a great conference. So long San Antonio! Hello Orlando! Next year, Kscope18 will be held at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin! Kscope18 will also be a little bit earlier in the month of June than years past. With some luck, I will be fortunate enough to be selected to speak next year so that we can all have some fun at Disney World! And with that…I leave you with EPMMickey:
Kscope17 is Almost Here
The year has really flown by and Kscope17 is less than 2 weeks away. I thought I would take a moment to highlight the top 9 sessions I’d like to attend this year. But, before I do that, let’s start with a shameless plug of the sessions that I have to attend…my sessions. IT Made Me Virtualize Essbase and Performance Sucks: Making Essbase Fast in Any Environment When: Monday, June 26, 2017 @ 11:45 am Where: Grand Oaks G What: We can’t all have an Exalytics box for our Essbase environment. In fact, if you haven’t made it to the cloud, then you are most likely already on a virtualized environment or being “encouraged” heavily to go to a virtualized environment. This presentation will focus on making sure that your transition is as smooth as possible. We’ll discuss specific settings in the virtual environment, the operating system, and Essbase to get the most out of your server. We’ll also compare specific benchmarks around different hardware configurations related to CPU, memory, and storage. Attendees will receive
Hyperion Planning and PBCS: Dynamic Forms
Have you ever built a form in Hyperion Planning (or PBCS) that really needed to have the same dimension represented in both the user selectable page and the rows or columns? Normally, we want to give the user the ability to filter a form dynamically. As an example, perhaps I would like to select and upper level parent of a product in the page, but I want to see all of the descendants of that selection in the rows of a form. As another example, I’d like to select an upper-level cost center in the page, but have it show me all of the descendents of that selection in the rows of the form. I recently encountered that very request from a client. As it happens, I recently had a request come in via a comment on this site as well. So how can we do this? I know how to build forms, and a dimension can only be part of the POV, the page, rows, or columns, right? If we look at the form
EPM Marshall Weekly Newsletter, Sign Up Now!
As Kscope17 rapidly approaches and I continue to look for new ways to procrastinate on the final preparations necessary for my presentations. In the meantime, I welcome you to sign up for the new EPM Marshall Weekly Newsletter! The newsletter is an automatic, once a week e-mail with the most recent posts on this blog. I’m also in the process of reconsidering my Monthly updates, which I’ve clearly failed at providing recently. So be on the lookout for a possible re-occurrence of the EPM Week in Review. Sign Up Now But, while you wait with baited breath for that decision, sign up for my new weekly newsletter: Once you complete those two simple steps, you should receive and e-mail to confirm that you wish to be added to the list. This both validates your e-mail address and ensures that you really did want to join the list.
HyperionEPM.com is now EPMMarshall.com
You may have noticed a massive change in the way things look around here. HyperionEPM.com is now EPMMarshall.com! And yes…this is a totally corny play on words, and I’m okay with that. I’m Brian Marshall and I like to blog about EPM. It also makes for a cool looking badge logo. As it happens, EPMMarshal.com works too if you are interested in spelling it correctly. HyperionEPM.com will also continue to work. All of my existing content will still be here and everything will work just like it did. I decided to change the site up for a few reasons. First, if you google Hyperion EPM, you can’t get right to my website. There are too many other companies that have the top slots (I’m looking at you, Oracle). Second, Hyperion is not the only EPM technology out there. I may not blog about other technologies yet, but at least this gives me more options. That’s all for today. I should have a lot more content coming as I finish off my presentations for Kscope17 and