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Calculation Manager, BSO Planning, and ASO Planning combine for an awesome...
A bit of a teaseI’m not talking about me.  If anything I am more than a bit too straightforward.  I try not think of all of the own goals I have scored in my Cameron-tells-it-like-it-is way when a bit...
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Enhanced Planning Validations: Part 1
IntroductionWhat you are about to read is not my work.  No, I didn’t steal it, but instead I somehow recruited Tyler Feddersen of Performance Architects to write about this really clever technique to...
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Stupid Programming Trick No. 18 -- Modifying the Period dimension in Planning
IntroductionThe genesis of this Stupid Programming Trick comes both from this post over on Network54 and because this has bugged me for, oh, ever (as long as ever = how long Planning has been a product...
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Calculation Manager, BSO Planning, and ASO Planning combine for an awesome...
IntroductionThis is part two of a three part series on Calculation Manager, ASO Planning, its relationship with BSO Planning, and Essbase ASO procedural calculations. Â Part one covered all sorts of...
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Enhanced Planning Validations: Part 2
IntroductionAt the end of July Tyler Feddersen very generously wrote part one of this two part series on data validation in Planning; you now are reading the concluding entry.  I’ll let Tyler do the...
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Stupid Programming Tricks No. 19 -- TRUNCATEing DATAEXPORT
An interesting statisticThe code I am about to show you, and the solution that I came up with, took me over 15 hours of research, cursing, testing, and finally triumph. Â Multiple cups of coffee were...
View ArticleEssbase 11.1.2.3.502 is available for download
It’s outI must give a hat tip to Steph who commented on my 11.1.2.4 post as I didn’t know about the patch release.Two things that I found interestingNo stated (although I could swear that Gabby said...
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Calculation Manager, BSO Planning, and ASO Planning combine for an awesome...
IntroductionThis is the third and final installment of a three part series on ASO calculations, and specifically, ASO Planning calculations.  Thus far I’ve showed how to use the...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2014 EPM/BI meetup
It’s comingWhat is it?  It is nothing less than Oracle OpenWorld 2014.  OOW is an interesting kind of conference, especially compared to a very focused one like Kscope.What oh what oh what is on the...
View ArticleOnce more unto the ODTUG breach
I’m asking for your ODTUG supportAgain I come to you (and for the last, term-limited time) to continue your work on the ODTUG Board of Directors.As a Director, in the last two years I’ve:Waved the...
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Oracle OpenWorld, day 1
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Day 1The craziness has begunTo be absolutely accurate, I’m actually on day three of OpenWorld 2014 as I attended the ACE Directors briefing (Ooh, name dropping.  All I can say is...
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Oracle OpenWorld, day 2
The craziness continuesIt really isn’t craziness, more like crazy busy.  But this is the nature of conferences, right?The rest of yesterdayProbably the most interesting/embarrassing thing yesterday was...
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Oracle OpenWorld, Day 3
The craziness continues, part the thirdFor once I am  not in a session but instead at the Oracle Publishers Seminar.  Why oh why would I be interested in publishing?  Haven’t I already been there, done...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2014, day 4
The craziness continues, part the fourthI am slowing down. Â No, not because I am old and feeble (definitely something to look forward to but not just yet) but because I am not getting enough sleep. Â I...
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Oralce OpenWorld, Day 5
The craziness continues, part the fifthHybrid Essbase: Â Evolution or RevolutionHere I am, at the first session, watching Tim German and Dan Pressman present on Hybrid Essbase. Â Tim and I presented on...
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Two Calc Man and ASO Essbase webinars in one
Use Calc Man and ASO?  Then you should watch usLudovic de Paz, Paul Hoch, and I are combining ASO Calculation Manager presentations tomorrow, 7 October, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, Eastern.What you’ll...
View ArticleTime to submit that Essbase abstract
Time to submitNo, not to my awesome will, altho’ I must confess to having a slight Svengali-like effect (or is that repulsive-to-all-who-know-me effect?) when it comes to ODTUG’s Kscope15.Time for...
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A different kind of currency conversion in Planning and Calculation Manager
Read me firstNote No. 1Dear Oracle and Oracle’s competitors.  I’m about to use the straw man technique to illustrate currency conversion in Hyperion Planning.  All of my complaints are from my offended...
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An Essbase ASO procedural calculation too screwy to be true
But it isTim German and I presented at Kscope14 on ASO Planning.  As part of the use case for that presentation, I wrote code that mimicked BSO Planning’s fx (I seem to have currency conversion on the...
View Article2014 ODTUG board of directors election results
First of all, thank youYou have, perhaps a trifle unwisely, reelected me to the ODTUG board of directors. Â Thank you and I will do my best to serve all ODTUG members to the best of my ability.I have to...
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