Learn To:

• Create block storage databases.
• Build rules files.
• Analyze data with Smart View.
• Create basic calculations.
• Extend analysis capabilities.
• Create a database outline, load data into the database and analyze data with Smart View.
• Perform advanced analysis on the database by implementing varying attribute dimensions and typed measures.

Learn how to improve your organization’s performance through better, more informed decisions using Oracle Essbase,the market leading online analytical processing (OLAP) server for Enterprise Performance Management. Become more efficient at forecasting, variance analysis, root cause identification, scenario planning and what-if modeling to better align your organization’s resources and improve business results.

During this course, you'll also create calculation scripts (to calculate data for different scenarios). Design discussions and hands-on activities will help you practice the new skills you're learning.

Audience:

• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developer
• Database Administrators
• Database Designers
• Database Designers

Course Objectives:

• Create block storage databases
• Create dimensions using rules files
• Load data using rules files
• Analyze data with Smart View
• Describe multidimensional calculation
• Create basic database calculations
• Analyze dimension attributes
• Analyze non-numeric data

Course Topics:

Essbase Overview

• Multidimensional Analysis
• Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management System
• Oracle BI Foundation Suite
• Essbase
• Production Environment Components

Designing Applications and Databases

• Essbase Implementation Process
• Analyzing and Planning Implementations
• Creating Applications and Databases
• Creating Outlines

Designing Data Descriptor Dimensions

• Data Descriptor Dimensions Overview
• Designing Time Dimensions
• Designing Scenario Dimensions
• Outline Calculations
• Designing Accounts Dimensions
• Testing Outline Calculations

Optimizing Data Descriptor Dimensions

• Creating Member Aliases
• Dimension Types
• Creating Period-to-Date Totals
• Dynamic Calc Members
• Enhancing Accounts Dimensions
• Optimizing Data Storage

Developing Dimension Designs

• Business View Dimensions Overview
• Attributes in Database Design
• Combining Business Views
• Developing Label Outlines

Creating Basic Dimension Build Rules Files

• Rules Files Overview
• Creating Dimension Build Rules Files
• Configuring Dimension Maintenance Settings

Creating Advanced Dimension Build Rules Files

• Advanced Dimension Build Rules Files Overview
• Creating Shared Members
• Manipulating Fields
• Creating User-Defined Attributes
• Creating Attribute Dimensions with Rules Files

Loading Data

• Data Load Overview
• Creating Data Load Rules Files
• Selecting and Rejecting Records
• Capturing New Members

Getting Started with Smart View

• Navigating Smart View
• Connecting to Data Sources
• Creating Ad Hoc Grids
• Setting the Point of View
• Associating Data Sources with Worksheets
• Creating Free-Form Grids

Creating Reports with Smart View

• Updating Essbase Data
• Integrating Essbase Data with Microsoft Office
• Creating Shared Database Perspectives
• Creating Custom Reports

Data Storage and Calculation

• Calculation Overview
• Database Calculation Order
• Data Block Fundamentals
• Data Blocks and the Index System
• Interpreting Database Statistics
• Data Block Creation
• Database Calculation Process

Creating Calculation Scripts

• Calculation Script Organization
• Returning Correct Calculation Results
• Troubleshooting CALC DIM Processes

Controlling the Calculation Process

• Top-Down Calculation
• Focusing Calculations with FIX Statements
• Calculating Conditionally with IF Statements
• Performance Considerations

Referencing Members in Calculations

• Referencing Members Explicitly
• Referencing Members Dynamically
• Creating Calculation Variables

Developing and Testing Complex Calculation Scripts

• Implementing a Script Development Process
• Upper-Level Data Loads
• Intelligent Calculation

Normalizing Data

• Allocating Data
• Planning Data Normalization
• Normalizing Rates and Drivers
• Copying and Clearing Data

Creating Attribute Dimensions

• Attribute Dimensions Overview
• Adding Attribute Dimensions to Outlines
• Design Considerations

Analyzing Varying Attributes

• Varying Attributes Overview
• Creating Varying Attributes
• Viewing Varying Attribute Data

Analyzing Text and Dates

• Typed Measures Overview
• Enabling Typed Measures
• Creating Text Measures
• Creating Date Measures
• Viewing Typed Measures
• Calculations Based on Typed Measures