Oracle DRM Blog

If you have DRM installed, one of the first thing you’d do is turn it on inside the console. You could be doing this for the main DRM engine, or you could be doing it for the web publishing engine. Either way, if the engine isn’t starting or the web publishing engine comes back with a blank page, then you should probably check out the “Web Server” tab of the console.
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Downloaded the latest version of Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management 9.3.2 (upgrading from the last 9.3.1), the latest version was interesting because of a few welcomed surprise additions then the usual bug fixes. Here’s what I found…

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If you’re installing the latest version of Oracle Hyperion DRM, you’ll note a couple of additions in the installation package. One of the package is the new ASP 2.0 and this is usually installed automatically when you’re installing the server. Now when you finished, you may hit an error trying to login (i.e. you can’t even login to the main tool). You can almost tear your hair out on this one trying to solve this. But there’s an easy answer.

I don’t know why but as it turned out, the install associates the new install with the old ASP 1.x that’s usually been installed from the past even though the new ASP 2.0 is now installed. What we need to do really is to set it active. So here’re the steps:
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In the last part of our article, we talked about ways to automatically populate creation and update information for each node as they evolve. This is especially useful for building databases (e.g. slowly changing dimension). If you follow the last article, that’s probably enough to achieve the objective. Now, as you go from month to month, you will probably be creating new versions of hierarchies. When you’re creating a new version and you’re tracking changes, here’s a tip…
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Business Intelligence systems are designed to help organizations understand their operations, customers, financial situation, product performance, trends and a host of key business measurements. Good BI system allows quality decisions to be made. Similar, bad decisions can be resulted from poor decision making. Over the last decade, I see alot of effort being spent on tools. We’ve seen the rise of portals, web analytics, widgets, BPM, EPM you name it. In fact, how many millions of dollars have companies spent with the promise of report automation and hundred of hours saved from replacing manual Excel reporting? When I go to different companies, what I see are more manual reporting, not less. I see multi-billion dollar companies still don’t have their dream BI system. How’s this possible? The answer is simple.

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Although Oracle Hyperion DRM has the ability to track Master Data changes as transaction history, however let say you want to be able to export a hierarchy and most likely you want to be able to show who created the member and when; or who updated the member last and when, there’s a way to do this.
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Combing through some of Oracle’s literature from the Nov 2007 OpenWorld on Hyperion DRM, I am delighted and surprised 125+ customers adopted the use of this tool. Now I am not sure if this figure is every company since the Razza days or if it’s since the Hyperion acquisition. But I guess if it’s the former than the skilled professional who has implemented this are few, maybe even less in a production environment. Nevertheless, I am happy to be one of those that had learn everything about this powerful tool.
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Oracle OpenWorld 2007 presentations have been posted online. You can find it at:
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With the old Hyperion web site slowing moving to the new Oracle web site, where are the PDF manuals located? Well here’s a new online documentation link to all the Hyperion Suite of documentations:
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Hyperion Master Data Management has a small makeover by Oracle at the OpenWorld. The product is now called Oracle’s Hyperion Data Relationship Management. Given the Hyperion acquisition, the Hyperion MDM product became part of the Oracle’s offerings. And since Oracle touts its Customer Data Hub and Product Data Hub as a Master Management tool. Therefore, it’s probably not a good idea to have one product named MDM, which could imply that we may not need the others. Therefore, the name distinguishes itself as one of the piece in the MDM puzzle.
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