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After building our essbase analytic model and importing the data, the next big thing is to keep our essbase data refreshed with each coming day's new data . And it might be necessary to  add  new dimension member to the outline sometimes (e.g. we might have to add today's date to the date dimension before loading today 's sales data)Read more

A few days ago, a friend complaint that he could no understand some word when he spoke with the customer, cause this customer is a Siebel user and use some kind of  'siebel language' that he could not understand! and he turn to me for help.

What is Siebel Applications ?

This  question is not so difficult to understand actually. Of cause we all know about the fact that Siebel is a famous CRM(Customer Relationship Management) system that we use to manage our customer, our partners and our own staff and link them together.Read more

Recently, I 'm transfering one of my domain from one domain vendor to another. I had some unexpected problems when transfering my domain.

The very BIG problem is that I had the 'Domain Privacy' option enabled with my domain name. It turn out to be the pain point that cause my problem.

My Domain Transfer Process

Following the Godaddy domain transfer guide, I unlock my domain name from my previous vendor and initiate the domain transfer process.Read more

In Essbase we could tag a dimension either 'dense dimension' or 'sparse dimension'. The definition of dense dimension is that the account dimension value must exist for almost every 'dense dimension' member. While for sparse dimension, there shouldn't be many value for 'sparse dimension' member.

Well this is easy to understand but you will not fully understand these two concept unless you 'r aware of how essbase use different storage machenism for these two dimension type.

It is all about storage efficiency!Read more

It is very popular to install Oracle database Express edition on one's laptop , XE is a small and light footprint of Oracle database which is very good to serve as a repository database for many products.

I have been using XE on my laptop for a long time and when I install Hyperion Essbase 11 today, I use XE as the hyperion repository natrually and I realize that the default parameters of XE is really small and we have to change it to bigger value for the installation to be sucessful.

Installation of EssbaseRead more

Which files to download ?

Installation process of essbase version 11 is different from the previous version 9.x. But each component is still a separate file. In order to install Essbase 11, you should first download the following file:Read more