This document provides an overview of Oracle Essbase and related products: - Essbase is an OLAP server that enables modeling of business scenarios and analysis of data from different perspectives. It includes the Essbase database, server, administration services, and client tools. - Related products include Integration Services, Essbase Studio, Smart View, and the Spreadsheet Add-in. Smart View and the Add-in integrate Essbase with Microsoft Office. - Integration Services bridges Essbase with transactional databases to enable hybrid analysis and drill-through reporting.

2. After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
◦ Describe multidimensional analysis
◦ Describe Oracle Enterprise Performance Management
system
◦ Describe Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise
Edition Plus
◦ Describe Essbase
◦ Identify components of the block storage production
environment

3. BI Applications
EPM Workspace
OLTP & ODS
Systems
Data Warehouse
Data Mart
SAP, Oracle, Siebel,
PeopleSoft, Custom
Excel
XML
Business
Process
OLAP, Essbase
Fusion Middleware
Business Intelligence Foundation
BI Applications
Performance Management
Applications

4. Oracle Essbase is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server
that provides an environment for developing custom analytic and
enterprise performance management applications.
Oracle Essbase enables business
users to
• Quickly model complex business
scenarios
•“Write back" to an application's data
repository (useful for forecasting
applications and “what-if” analysis
•Perform business calculations
•Analyze data efficiently from various
business perspective
•Visualize data using different reporting
tools and Microsoft Office documents

5. Sales
Tracking
and
Analysis
Planning
and
Budgeting
Performance and
Variance Reporting
Product
Line
Analysis
Executive
Information
Systems
(EIS)
Oracle Essbase
Visual Basic API
C API
Web Analysis
Financial Reporting
Java
HTML
XML
Excel
Financial
Consolidation
and Reporting
Customer and
Profitability
Analysis

6. Middle Tier Database TierClient Tier
Administration
Services
Administration
Services
•Spreadsheet Add-in
•MaxL and MDX
•C API, VB API, and
Java API
applications
•Spreadsheet Add-in
•MaxL and MDX
•C API, VB API, and
Java API
applications
Administration
Services
Console
TCP/IP
HTTP
Provider
Services
Provider
Services
HTTP
•Smart View
•Visual Explorer
•Smart View
•Visual Explorer
TCP/IP
Essbase
Server
Essbase
Database
Integration
Services
Console
Integration
Services
Integration
Services
TCP/IP
RDBMS
ODBC

7. ◦ Essbase:
 Essbase database
 Essbase Server
 Administration Services
 Smart View
 Spreadsheet Add-in
 MaxL, ESSCMD, MDX
 C API, VB API, and Java API
◦ Additional components:
 Integration Services
 Essbase Studio

8.  Database and system administrators’ interface
Navigation
panel Object
window
Message
panel

9. ◦ Is a Web-deployed thin client that is embedded in a client
spreadsheet application
◦ Enables you to retrieve data and create ad hoc reports
◦ Provides integration with Microsoft Office products
◦ Provides a single Excel interface to analyze data
Excel, Word, and
PowerPoint with
Smart View
Single Essbase
database or
database cluster
Provider
Services
Provider
Services
Java APIJava API
InfrastructureInfrastructure
HTTP(S) TCP/IP

10. ◦ Is a software program that is embedded in a client
spreadsheet application
◦ Enables you to retrieve data, create ad hoc reports, and
analyze data
◦ Provides an interface with Essbase
Excel with
Spreadsheet Add-in Essbase server Essbase database
TCP/IP TCP/IP

11. ◦ Bridges the gap between data stored in Essbase databases
and transactional data stored in relational databases
◦ Enables hybrid analysis and drill-through reporting

12. In this lesson, you should have learned to:
◦ Describe multidimensional analysis
◦ Describe Oracle Enterprise Performance Management
system
◦ Describe Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise
Edition Plus
◦ Describe Essbase
◦ Describe related products