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Archive for May, 2008

21 May, 2008

Questions and Answers

Posted by: Daniel In: Oracle MDM

Thought I’ll just have a quick blog on some of the questions I got over the past few days… Hopefully I have answered your questions, keep them coming.

Oh yes I know, how can anyone find anything called DRM on the web? Digital Rights Management, Digital Restrictions Management, Data Reference Model, Data Resources Manager, Data Relationship [...]

If you use Remote Desktop Connection on Windows, you’d probably encounter this once in a while. But this problem has plagued me several times and the usual quick fix “rebooting the server” or asking for DBA help seemed over-consuming and stupid in my opinion. Who’s want to reboot a server every time you get a [...]

18 May, 2008

I found a bug!

Posted by: Daniel In: Oracle Data Relationship Management

Oracle DRM / Hyperion DRM is a pretty good product. It’s mature, it’s flexible and it kicks ass. If you’ve worked with Essbase Outline Editor, it’s the smarter cousin it never had. If you’ve worked with Hyperion Business Performance Architect (BPA), it has much less issues or bugs. Let’s face it, every software [...]

01 May, 2008

MDM Institute

Posted by: Daniel In: Master Data Management

The MDM Institute has posted a page about Oracle Hyperion DRM 9.3. Here’s what they say about the strengths:

Analytical MDM for sharing dimensions, hierarchies, & reporting
Operational MDM (Ledger Hub) for cost centres, legal entities, etc.
Mature product (due to Razza acquisition)
Hierarchy management
Robust business rules engine Intuitive change mgmt suitable for business users
Strength in both [...]



  • Daniel: Ravi, yes there're a couple of properties needed for Essbase. If you are using v11 DRM, you should have the templates available already. Just check it
  • Daniel: Hi Tonia, use 9.3.1 add-in and it'll work fine unless you absolutely need version 11 features. In that case, we maybe able to help offline. Regards,
  • Daniel: There isn't any documentation as such from version 8. The DRM database structure is very different, you will have to rebuild it. Shouldn't be too hard

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