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Delete Multiple Files with EPM Automate
IntroductionI have, somehow yet again convinced others to write my blog for me. I must be getting good at this, or others must be losing their minds because this really good post came to Yr. most...
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The new and even more improved EPM cloud documentation portal
Fourth editionYr. most hmbl. & obt. svt. seems to write an awful lot about documentation:The new (and improved) EPM documentation portalEPM documentation – The little things mean a lotThe Compleat...
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Smart View Survey Results
If someone asks you to, “Name an animal with three letters in its name.” you must answer, “Frog”. Or “Alligator”.Alas, in my laziness I could not find a good clip of Richard Dawson (surely at his best...
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Stupid Programming Tips No. 31 -- Installing just Excel 2016 and nothing else
Excel, just Excel, and nothing elseAlthough I’ve known Oracle EPM (and Hyperion and before that Arbor all the way back to Comshare) for far longer than I care to think about, my installation skills...
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A lightweight, modular, and even better EPM on-premises backup
Time waits for no oneTime and tide waits for no man A while ago, like five years ago, I wrote about a lightweight, modular, and better Essbase backup. Funny, it doesn’t seem all that long ago and yet...
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The Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS No. 20 -- A lightweight and even better...
Not better. Best. At least in the cloud.Yr. Fthl., Hmbl., & Obt. Svt. has written how to back up on-premisesEssbase and EPM systems. But what about the cloud? There is no MaxL to be found in...
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Miami, Florida ODTUG BI-EPM Oracle Cloud Stack User Event
The when, the what, the where, the why, and the howCome this 13 April 2017, from noon to7 o’clock, a mere 29 days from the writing of this blog post (don’t get excited as this is written on Pacific...
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Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 1 -- The Blessed Event
Nine months to gestationNo, Yr. Hmbl., Fthl., & Obt. Svt. has not suddenly changed sex and really and truly had one of life’s miracles bestowed upon him but instead something almost as great has...
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Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 2 -- Up the down staircase
I know a little bit about a lot of thingsOne of the more interesting aspects of Essbase Cloud is that dimension management within Excel is possible. Yes, there’s a web UI that allows this as well but...
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EPM 12c: Read 'em and weep
As that saying goes, read 'em and weep:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-epm-12-on-prem-news-flash-john-boothAre you on-premises people still here? Good. You have a strong will and...
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Miami, Florida ODTUG BI-EPM Oracle Cloud Stack User Event live blog
Where are you? Probably not at the ODTUG BI-EPM Cloud Stack User Event.Yr. Hmbl. & Obt. Svt. writes that because you’d not be reading my blog if you were. Actually if you are here and you are...
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The Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS No. 21 -- Change is the only constant
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même choseI use a lot of Oracle EPM products: Essbase (all the time), Planning (some of the time), Essbase Cloud (more and more of the time), PBCS (some of the time),...
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Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 3 -- Costing the Essbase Cloud
What price Essbase?I can(‘t) get it for you wholesaleOft times when I set pen to paper, I endeavor to get the geeky part of whatever I write just as accurately as I can manage to do. Yes, I get bits...
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Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 4 -- Fixing Cube Designer's download
Procrastination really isn’t that bad sucksFor those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter (surely all of the sensible ones but here you are reading this so who knows), I just made the deadline for...
View ArticleKscope17: The (mostly) good, the (not hardly) bad, and the ugly (have you...
That’s taken care of thatThe title of this post has managed to: intrigue, titillate, and insult all of you, Gentle Readers, at the same time. Unpossible! And yet. I do my best.But beyond alienating...
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The Dodeca Symposium at Kscope17
Parallel LinesOne way or the otherTim Tow, president, CEO, and general Applied OLAP grand visionary has wanted a Dodeca symposium for ages – Five years? Seven? A long time for sure. – and come this...
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Kscope17, day 0
No, not Year 0, but the day before Kscope proper kicks off.How I wish I could tell you what Oracle has told usBut I can’t. Seriously, Oracle embargoed us on Tweeting, blogging, etc. about what they...
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Kscope17, day 1
Here we go!It is now the first true, real, honest to goodness day of the conference. I’m so excited. I’m also kind ofreally, really, really sad, so there is that.I have five pictures; that means...
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Kscope 17, day 1, part 2
OMG, I’m already exhaustedI’m not sure anyone could tell the difference (or indeed, care) that after the first full day, I am already at 3 ½ hours of sleep. It isn’t going to get better. And yet,...
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Kscope17, day 2, part 1, and a happy annoucement
I am moved to songIt’s true, it’s really true. But when something wonderful happens, I simply have a song in my heart. And what, Cameron, what makes you write this? What oh what oh what?Because Gary...
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Kscope17, it's a wrap
So much fun. Too much fun? Is that possible? Maybe, but probably not.OMG, again and again and again I promise myself that I won’t do what I did which is try to do too much all at the same time but...
View ArticleDrill to Detail Ep.37 'How Essbase Won the OLAP Wars' With Special Guest...
Drill to Detail, just what is it?It’s Mark Rittman’s take on (I am just going to crib directly from the site) on the business and strategy of analytics, big data, and distributed processing in the...
View ArticleWhat are you doing the rest of your life? Or at least what are you doing for...
What are you doing for the rest of the 20th of September, 2017?Alas, I cannot provide Dusty Springfield for a number of reasons (alas she’s dead, were she alive I’m not sure we’d be BFFs (alas, again,...
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10 Years Before the Mast with ODTUG
10 years, and counting10 isn’t quite as impressive as 20 – more like half as impressive – but a decade is a long time in technology and even in a geek’s life. Time to see real changes in his...
View ArticleI wish you love
Goodbye, no use leading with our chinsThis is where our story endsNever lovers, ever friendsLet’s get this out of the way – what you’re reading is this blog’s last post. As the rumormongers have...
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