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I love Oracle to death but on some things, it bugs me. I have been trying to get somewhere with Oracle for about a month, and the issue surrounds the installation of the Excel 2007 Essbase client (not the SmartView client though). Here’s the story…
For the past 12 years we have use Essbase on Excel, [...]

Oracle has come out with a simple Oracle EPM 11.1.1 installation tutorial. Try it out if you’re interested in building a simple single machine install of most of your Hyperion app. I have done both an SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g install for Oracle EPM 11.1.1 on a single machine and it’s not too hard [...]

Never thought I’d need this. Afterall who needs a piece of paper when you’ve worked with Essbase since the Arbor days back in 1996. But like my CPA, MBA or other certifications, I figured it may be useful one day. So I took it and did it:
Hi Daniel,
Welcome Aboard!
Congratulations on earning your new “HYPERION [...]



  • 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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