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Okay, it has been almost half-a-year (oh, dears) since the last decent post on this blog. Russian one has suffered as well, I must note.
Reasons vary, but mostly it's that I've been, you know, busy-busy. As I now start to reflect on it, it's always a point of view thing and a question of self-control and ability to say no )
But enough philosphy, brief recap on what happend while I was out "there" in real world. I'll divide this into two parts (by vendors ))
Well, I'm last to notice -- they've brought all hyperion apps on edelivery.oracle.com
Started unwrapping this mid-summer present today. It took me quite a time to get to Hyperion Planning LogOn screen, I must admit. This is no Analyst out-of-box experience, this is serious software with lots of ports&services stuff ) And AIX 64 capable ))
See you soon with more on topic.
Definitely worth reading.
I'm just confused with EPB future. And if EPB will be changed by Hyperion products, all EPF concepts falls. Future of products will remain unclear until Oracle explains their plans in detail.
But the main goal Oracle's is obvious. Got the illustration from Tom Kyte's blog.
Oh my God.
CNN article
Anyway, that'll give me access to Essbase and I wanted that.
Break-back (write-back, back-solve, anyway you like) is crucial for performing what-if analysis. Being a techie lately and, moreover, writing a PHD on OLAP subject I wanted to find out how that technique is realized in Cognos EP, MS AS and others.
Well, they don't write that in documentation for sure. But there's a very good thing about US -- a lot of information is open. For example, most of patents.
So here we go (with all the respect to honored inventors) :
write-back in MS AS
break-back in Analyst and Contributor
Overall Cognos Enterprise Planning ideas
Mapping Accounting Info into MDDB by Applix
Mapping Accounting Info into MDDB by Hyperion
All Cognos Patents
Two excellent patent searching services:
www.freepatentsonline.com
a fresh&new www.google.com/patents (yet no pdf export for now, they'll do it very soon, I suppose)
Had a meeting with Hyperion guys from UK. They were mostly on BI side, we were interested mostly in Planning.
Hyperion BI is totally ruined by absence of meta data layer. Renaming columns by views to get business-user perspective is considered weird nowadays. So nothing that interesting on BI.
Essbase caught our attention surely -- the capability to work with huge volumes of data and speed are astonishing. Anyway -- we didn't have a chance to look on it in details.
But now I understand why sales structure of Hyperion is so strange -- new products (namely BI) are not at all that good as old products (namely Essbase). And Essbase is MDX-friendly, so almost every client can be used.
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