Happy Belated New Year!
Welcome to 2017! This post is way late as I continue to recover from a ridiculously busy Q4 and the Holidays that go along with that. 2016 was my second year of blogging, and I’d like to think that it was a successful year. In 2017, I published 83 blog posts. I’m not sure that I’ll get anywhere near that number this year, but I’m hoping to make every post count. This year I hope to focus more on continuing to build out my home lab to support new and interesting things. I’d also like to spend more time with cloud technologies like FCCS and ARCS that I haven’t spent as much time blogging about so far. Here’s what I hope to post on in general: Essbase Performance (you should see a lot on this given my presentation looms) PBCS FCCS More fun with PowerShell More posts about the Lab Perhaps a guest-blog or two? I’ll finish off this post by stealing an idea from Jason and posting my top 10 blog posts from 2016:
ODTUG + NTxHUG @ Topgolf Tomorrow!
It’s time for a meet-up! Tomorrow, December 1, 2016, join the ODTUG North Texas EPM/BI Meet-Up group as we co-host an event with the North Texas Hyperion User Group at Topgolf in The Colony. We’ll get started at 3 PM and the first two bays will be sponsored by ODTUG! You will have to buy your own drinks and food, but we’ll cover the bays until 6 PM. Come enjoy the company of your local EPM and BI professionals as we play Golf poorly! Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016 Time: 3:00-6:00pm (drop in anytime and look for our bays) Location: Topgolf 3760 Blair Oaks Drive The Colony, TX 75056 Here’s the meet-up info: https://www.meetup.com/ODTUG-DFW-EPM-BI/events/235679958/
Hyperion EPM Week In Review? November 26, 2016
Welcome to the Hyperion EPM Week in Review! And look at that…it has only been a week! Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: Essbase 11.1.2.4.014 has been released. This is a nearly complete patch for the suite with everything getting a patch but EAS. The December 2016 cloud updates are about to drop: ARCS looks to have a few new features, including Transaction Matching. EPRCS also gets an update in December. FCCS will be getting another update as well. This update includes new alternate hierarchy functionality in the Entity dimension among other things. PBCS gets an update as well with a lot of new features around sandboxing and a new web-based version of predictive planning. Also of note…workspace has an official date of death…December 2017. PCMCS gets a few minor updates as well. Hyperion EPM Blog Posts: Opal has another post in his ODTUG Member Series. This time she focuses on the former ODTUG Marketing guru, Lori Lorusso. Sibin has a five-part series on using ODI to load data from a flat file into an Oracle table. Check
Hyperion EPM Month In Review? November 18, 2016
Welcome to the Hyperion EPM Week Month in Review! I can’t believe it has been almost a month since my last post. With the holidays upon us, I can’t say for sure that I’ll keep up with the weekly posts going forward, but I’m certainly going to give it a shot. Here we go! Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: Hyperion Financial Clost Management 11.1.2.4.200 has been released. They removed reduced the reliance on SOA in this release. I guess its a step in the right direction, but a long way from where we all hoped it would be. Hyperion Disclosure Management 11.1.2.4.253 has been released. That’s about all I know about that… The November 2016 Update for ARCS has been released. More here. The November 2016 Update for FCCS has been released. More here. The November 2016 Update for EPRCS has been release. More here. The November 2016 Update for PBCS has been released. More here. The dropping of support for the desktop FR studio is of particular interest. Really? Ugh… The November 2016 Update
ODTUG Board of Directors Voting Ends Today!
Voting ends today for the ODTUG Board of Directors. This may seem familiar, but with voting coming to an end today…here it is one more time: It’s that time of year. Election season. No, not THAT election. The ODTUG Board of Directors election! You can see the very long list of 16 nominees along with their campaign statements and bios here. I urge you to pay special attention to Jake Turrell. Jake has been contributing to the ODTUG community for as long as I can remember. He has multiple best speaker awards and a great deal of passion for what we do. He also has a fantastic blog that I reference multiple times a month. I can’t imagine a better candidate for the ODTUG Board of Directors. If Jake were more self-promoting, he would have let me put up an amazing campaign site. But as I mentioned before, that’s not his style. Instead I’ll list off some of the contributions from Jake over the years: Oracle ACE Associate Speaker at Kscope in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and
Hyperion EPM Week In Review: October 25, 2016
So now I’m extremely late… On the bright side, there is a ton of great content, including several Hyperion Patches! Hyperion EPM Patches and Updates: Hyperion Essbase 11.1.2.4.013 has been released. This patch includes almost all products (Server, RTC, Client, MSI, EAS Server, EAS Console, and APS). The notable exception is Essbase Studio. Hyperion Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.610 has been released. This patch has some pretty cool features. The most notable that I’ve seen fixes a giant issue with Smart View. They have added a VBA function that will allow you to submit a range of cells without doing a refresh. This means that you can now send out your templates, get back numbers, and not have it blow them away! HFM 11.1.2.4.203 has been released. This has a variety of defect fixes, including a sizable number related to performance. The OBIEE 16108 patch is now available. This crosses three version: 11.1.1.9.161018, 12.2.1.0.161018, and 12.2.1.1.161018. These of course continue the long-running pattern of the longest patch names imaginable. Hyperion EPM Blog Posts: Sibin is still staying