Oracle DRM Blog

Having been writing for a little while and that’s because handling a new born takes up alot of time but hopefully in the near future this blog can be expanded to cover more diverse topics. We’ll see. Got an interesting email from S.Varshne below and we’re going to try to answer it. I do take [...]

Got a question today about the new features on Oracle Hyperion DRM v11. In terms of this new release to be honest, most of the features had been pretty much the same as version 9.3.2. So don’t expect anything dramatic. I was told by reps that the next release will evolve to something quite different. [...]

Sorry folks I have not blogged for a while. And that’s because my lovely wife has given birth to our daughter and we had been quite busy and having lots of fun with her. Hopefully my schedule will also me to get back into some sort of cadence to update this. Also later on, I’ll [...]

Data Relationship Management currently allows objects (e.g. DRM property name, Exports, Property Queries, etc.) to be created using special characters. Please be aware some of these characters can cause issues when using the system. Here’s some examples:

(comma) – Causes issues with comma-delimited lists. Besides objects, if you’re going to use Ancestor List, you will [...]

In our quest to build a financial hierarchy, in the last blog entry, we taught you how to prepare a Parent-Child hierarchy and then using the Parent-Child Import Automator tool, we created the necessary DRM Automator script without even trying. This literally saves days of work. Imagine if you’re trying to develop 10 hierarchies (with [...]

Apologize that I have been quite busy for the last few weeks. But thank you for all the support. I have getting pinged to provide some help in using the DRM Tools that I posted a while back. In addition, I am getting some great questions and solving them as soon as they come in. [...]

One of the little known secret in the Oracle DRM 9.3.2 and after, as I have outlined in one of the previous post, is the migration utility. Sure you can understand from the name what this utility does, but today I am going to cover something it’s also good for – documenting what you did [...]

The Hyperion Data Relationship Management, Fusion Edition Release 11.1.1 has now been released to the public, along with all the other Hyperion apps. One first glance, the name has gone even longer and the release version has gone up a bit more than a notch. Personally, I think it’s kind of funny that:

they skipped on [...]

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 [...]

One of the growing movement in Corporate or Home environment is the use of virtualization. Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. Virtualization hides the physical characteristics of computing resources from their users, be they applications, or end users. This includes making a single physical resource (such as a [...]