tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76509539856270409912024-03-05T00:19:49.076-05:00Cameron's Blog For Essbase HackersCameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-2734421778566248202017-10-02T12:26:00.000-04:002017-10-03T13:45:36.455-04:00I wish you love<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-2a065fa1-dde3-79e7-fe1c-eeb22715ccdd" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s get this out of the way – what you’re reading is this blog’s last post. As the rumormongers have related (some with sadness, others undoubtedly with unbridled glee), it’s true: I am leaving the Oracle EPM world and embarking on </span><a href="https://onestreamsoftware.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">a new technical life</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not going to bore you overmuch with the reasons why – those who know me well have heard it all too many times – and I’ll not spread the agony of those who have already listened to it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What I will tell you is that I am both excited and apprehensive all at the same time. Excited because I have a great opportunity in front of me that is mine if I will only take it, nervous because I am trading literally decades of experience away to be the n00biest of n00bs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What am I doing? I am joining </span><a href="https://onestreamsoftware.com/company/careers/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">OneStream Software as an employee</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Look for me on consulting projects, spreading </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">terror and despair</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> joy and confidence amongst OneStream XF customers wherever I go.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Want to learn more about my journey? Read my new blog, </span><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcpm.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truth About CPM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (or, for you Oraclites, </span><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutepm.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truth About EPM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), where my new world will be discovered. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooS62Qyeh-4&feature=youtu.be&t=38" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">But before you walk away</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I sincerely want to say</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But that’s me. What about you? Beyond me earning </span><a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/earn+your+crust" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">my daily crust</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I’ve written books, maintained this blog, worked for and with ODTUG, tweeted (twitted is more apropos), messageboarded, and generally done everything I can and more for our community because, simply, I like to help others. If you didn’t reciprocate, I </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wouldn%27t%27ve" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">wouldn’t’ve</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> bothered. Even a whacko like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has limits.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzOeyuhWcFg&feature=youtu.be&t=42" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you bluebirds in the spring</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">To give your heart a song to sing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">And then a kiss, but more than this</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you love</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> And you have been more than gracious. Would I be an (ex)Oracle ACE Director without you? Would any of my </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">suckers who fell for a pitch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> esteemed fellow authors have sacrificed as much as they did? Would I have served on the board of ODTUG without your votes? Would I have any conference sessions without bums on seats? Would any of you bothered to help me in all things technical as you have? </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svXxeaWwIno" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">You’re nobody till somebody loves you</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkecwh4wJac&feature=youtu.be&t=63" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">And in July, a lemonade</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">To cool you in some leafy glade</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you health and more than wealth</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you love</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I love the Oracle EPM community. That means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Gentle Reader.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcFDMcvMsw&feature=youtu.be&t=63" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">My breaking heart and I agree</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">That you and I could never be</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">So with my best, my very best</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I set you free</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have done my best, my very best, to reach out to you; you have repaid me in far greater ways.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So why, Cameron? Why are you leaving this cozy world? Yes, I wrote I wouldn’t bore you with the details, but ask yourself, why does anyone change directions? What are some of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">your</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> job concerns, desires, and dreams?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I love Essbase: I love its elegance, I love its power, and I love the problems it solves because at the end of the Essbase day, solving problems is its </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/raison-detre" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">raison d'être</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having said that, I can tell you that I’ve been in the Essbase world a long time. Longer, sadly (heh, thinking of the alternative, gladly really), than some of you have been sentient beings. Seriously, try 23 years. That is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">long</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> time in any IT technology. It is, and has been for quite some time, time for a change. And so there will be.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCEwpttDmtM&feature=youtu.be&t=128" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you shelter from the storm</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">A cozy fire to keep you warm</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of all, when snowflakes fall</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you love</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here, in nothing but alphabetical order, are just some of those I love. Please, if I’ve forgotten you, don’t be offended. There are a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lot</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of you that I owe much to. I doubt I can ever repay my debt to you: Joe Aultman, John Booth, Jessica Cordova, Gary Crisci, Natalie Delemar, Martin D'Souza, Dave Farnsworth, Laura Ferris, Tim German, Ricardo Giampaoli, Jason Jones, Celvin Kattkooran, Prasad Kularni, Monty Latiolais, Peg Leisen, Steve Liebermensch, Rich Magee, Josie Manzano, Al Marciante, Kathleen McCasland, Matt Millela, Sree Menon, Kash Mohhammadi, Mike Nader, Jennifer Nicholson, ODTUG, Dan Pressman, Rodrigo Radtke de Souza, Kumar Ramaiyer, Mark Rittman, Gabby Rubin, Glenn Schwartzberg, Denise Storm, Tim Tow, Shankar Viswanathan, Toufic Wakim, and as noted, many others.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And listen, I’m </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZBn18FaLIU" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">not dead yet</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, </span><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcpm.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.thetruthaboutcpm.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is going to be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> awesome. Although no dance routines. Or singing ability (TonyB doesn’t really any introduction, does he?). Or witty lyrics (Can some of you really not know who </span><a href="http://www.steveallen.com/main_page/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Allen is</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?). But I will wear </span><a href="http://www.dropzonetactical.com/headwear/stubby-boonie-hat/stubby-boonie-hat.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">a hat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-19893569961707510432017-09-14T16:15:00.001-04:002017-09-14T16:15:40.542-04:0010 Years Before the Mast with ODTUG<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d5357fe7-8206-4c33-811e-c4f020847ba9" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10 isn’t quite as impressive as 20 – more like half as impressive – but a decade is a long time in technology and even in a geek’s life. Time to see real changes in his knowledge, work, outlook, contributions, and personal life. I won’t bother any of you with the latter except to note that I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">still</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> have four cats as I did in 2008. The rest I owe, without exaggeration, in large part to ODTUG.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OMG, you read my blog and don’t know? I am (heh, I flatter myself but still), one of that august gaggle of geeks’ greatest cheerleaders. And why not? Through ODTUG’s Kscope (nee Kaleidoscope and the Oracle Developer Tools User Group), I’ve seen and presented (more anon on that subject) countless sessions, laughed, occasionally gritted my teeth in frustration (although that had more to do with personalities than the organization itself; I can only imagine what they thought of me), slept way too little, learnt more than I could possibly have imagined, and, most importantly of all, met fellow geeks and geekettes that have utterly transformed my life. That’s just the conference. There’s also six years on the board of directors, rising from a n00b with the wettest of ears to finishing on the Executive Committee, and most importantly, two years acting as the EPM liaison to the board. I’ve written articles for the ODTUG newsletter, presented webinars, helped organize and present at meetups all over the country, interviews at conferences, promotion any which way I can – the list goes on and on. I have been called lazy. I don’t know why. All of this work, all of the time, all of the sacrifice is because I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">love</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ODTUG. I’m not the only one as ODTUG thrives because there are many just like me. You’d have done the same given the opportunity. You still can. You should.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the record: ODTUG is the bestest, most awesomest, greatest Oracle technical conference in the world, full stop. Join and it’ll change your life. Don’t believe me? Read on, Gentle Reader.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although it amazes, astonishes, and dismays me (it has been quite a passage of time) to write this, I have worked in the EPM space since the day I got out of school starting with Comshare’s Commander EIS (think standard reporting via touchscreens and mainframe OLAP ‘cos executives couldn’t handle keyboards), Arbor’s Essbase, Hyperion’s Essbase, Planning, and Financial Reports (HAL too I suppose but with great reluctance because it was an ETL abomination), and then Oracle’s Essbase, ODI, Planning, PBCS, Oracle Analytics Cloud, PL/SQL, and I’m sure a few other technologies I’ve forgotten. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But that latter list of technologies that I have (barely) mastered would never have happened without ODTUG. Let’s address </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Journalism-Who-What-When-Where/dp/020537204X" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">the four Ws and one H</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of what today passes for journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As an aside, does anyone still use the term, “Middleware”? That’s as obsolete as HAL. Yeah, I hate that product.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can think of a handful of EPM friends and colleagues whom I first met in New Orleans that are still active in ODTUG: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/joeaultman" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe Aultman</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/garycrisci" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary Crisci</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EssbaseLady" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Natalie Delemar</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/gschwartzberg1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Glenn Schwartzberg</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Although I think at the time he viewed me as an annoying </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gadfly" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">gadfly</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Come to think of it he still does.), and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/timtow" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Tow</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (I’ve known him since 1995 but it would be churlish not to mention him). The list has since expanded many, many, many times. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – I have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> idea why I hung on to the program schedule from 2008 nor why I was able to find it for this post. Blog </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/kismet" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kismet</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, perhaps?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See Napoleon (my favorite insane dictator, actually the only one but only because </span><a href="http://www.napoleonguide.com/aquotes.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">of his many aphorisms</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) A1-A3? That was just a largeish conference room with space for no more than 100 people. And that was all there was for the whole conference. The only subject: Essbase. For EPMers, Kaleidoscope 2008 was small, intimate, and utterly mind-blowing in the quality of content, depth of knowledge, the chance to put faces to message board handles, the meeting of like minds, and feeling of excitement. There was literally nothing to touch it and we knew it was special. ODTUG have moved from strength to strength and the conferences have grown enormously but in my mind the best one was the first.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s all on an emotional level. From a technical level, at least personally, it was a train wreck. Why? Because it showed me how complacent I had become with my technical skills. I liked to pretend that I had a solid technical skill set but sitting there in the audience showed how wrong I was when it came to design (what the Hell is a hockey stick?), calculations (heh, will this MDX thing stick around?), VBA (okay, I knew that pretty well but as the saying goes: Complacency, shattered), on and on and on. I’m still running to catch up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF self-awareness is the first step to improvement, then having a way to actuate that change is vital; Kscope has been that mechanism. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even my lousy memory recalls this: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="806" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8u1e1dE2XzS9v83gDkZPE8VGXBwz5LZgXwgdZnD1O4wJfMTqYjmS48U89-N0pmO7O4JfbRubzQi8Fu0Lcc8dpsn0HeOMZFstvagSG6iv44etmNJAvNhjODV2aaPtWXG8U0BHqNEx-_rK4mTlUQ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="624" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, one room, but there were a few more than a hundred people there. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And that one room at Kaleidoscope 2008 for sessions? Try 11 rooms with five timeslots per day. Yes, really. And that’s just EPM. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s an awful lot of expertise, freely given, and if you’ve got two brain cells to rub together and ability to swallow your ego, an amazing chance for you to learn and contribute right back to the EPM community. Re the ego bit: some people (mostly consultants) are a bit hopeless when it comes to this but I like to think that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yr. hmbl. & obt. svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is smart enough to adopt the position of, “Huh? Duh. Help.” which then leads to The Knowledge. My father likes to say I have two ears and one mouth and it’s best to use them in proportion. Most Kscope attendees do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Professionally, the knowledge that I’ve gained in attending, presenting, networking, and volunteering have been rewarding. Truly, without ODTUG I’d be unemployed or at least never reach my potential such as it is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I like to joke that I couldn’t sell death during a plague and for the most part that’s true, but when it comes to encouraging people to volunteer, run for the board, present, write articles, you name it I have been successful. That’s not because I’ve suddenly become </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Dale Carnegie</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, it’s because the opportunity and value and comradeship that ODTUG is simply draws geeks in. I’ve watched others grow as they become involved and while the hard graft is all theirs, it’s incredibly satisfying to be there at the start.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond the real satisfaction that comes from giving back to our community, ODTUG recognizes achievement. I’ve been beyond lucky to be recognized for this but I’m most certainly not alone. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We even get nice </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gong" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">gongs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – Yes, the below is “Look at me! I’m awesome, aren’t I?” Cf. my earlier comment about ego, I have one too although I do try to throttle it down. But that’s not the point. I highlight the below because it’s both a way of illustrating that ODTUG recognizes achievement and the way in which it does it. And yeah, a bit of self-praise. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhFQXLTY_TY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">So sue me</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I’m an American and </span><a href="https://theprofessorisin.com/2015/02/06/americans-dont-brag/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">that’s what we do</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. At least I don’t have a Facebook account.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This one was a surprise to put it mildly. I worked for a consulting company on what I am sure was the 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">nd</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> worst project I’ve ever been on – the contention for 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> switches between two others that I will not bore you with – and I stupidly tried to save it. That meant literally working 100 (yes, really, working till 3 am and then waking up at 5 o’clock) hours on the project, manning a booth, and presenting a session at 9 am on Thursday. I think by that point I was so tired and annoyed that whatever few filters I have were dead and buried. I got lots of laughs (who gets laughs after the Wednesday night event and when the subject is MaxL?) so I think that was largely the reason. Or ODTUG recognized a geek at the end of his tether and pitied me. A word to the wise: Don’t Be That Guy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m still not sure I deserved it but as Gary Crisci once said, never argue with good fortune. The kaleidoscope is pretty cool.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even more of a surprise was being included in the 2010 Volunteer of the Year award. This one </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> positive I didn’t deserve because I was on the SIG for three months or so when it was awarded. I did in fact argue with </span><a href="http://www.teamycc.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">YCC</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on this one because truly it was the work of others but I was told to </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=embrace%20the%20suck" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">embrace the non-suck</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I did but again, it’s a bit embarrassing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorry for the bad photography. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Capa</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I’ll never be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last, and definitely not least, I won the Essbase best co-speaker award this year. I’m 100% positive that this was due to my co-speaker, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/essbasedownundr" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pete Nitschke</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, but again, who am I to argue with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">deluded and mistaken </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">judges of great taste and discernment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here we are, Pete and I. I’ve got the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnozzola" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">schnozzola</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for Uncle Sam and Pete is quite a bit thinner than </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/John-Bull-English-symbol" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">John Bull</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and to be fair not exactly </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Australia" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">British</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but, as I like to remind him when I </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=take%20the%20piss" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">take the piss</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> out of him after he’s indulged in what is undoubtedly a cathartic session of anti-Americanism, he’s got a </span><a href="http://www.britishempire.co.uk/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Queen</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on his currency we </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Septic" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Septics</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> don’t. Regardless, it was tremendous fun working with this Antipodean and it was beyond nice to be recognized. While the below </span><a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/as_near_as_damn_it" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">is as near to 100% accurate as damn it</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in its depiction of the two of us, I’m not sure steamships were our subject (Hybrid Essbase and Planning was the subject and Oracle, would you please bring Hybrid support to PBCS as it really does revolutionize Planning?).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, it is nice to be recognized. Yes, it is </span><a href="https://hbr.org/2014/03/self-promotion-for-professionals-from-countries-where-bragging-is-bad" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">very American to brag</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Sorry, but all of this is in way of proving another point, to wit, if </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> can do this, so can </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard to believe that it’s been that long since 2008 but indeed it has and the years have flown by. As </span><a href="https://twitter.com/monty_latiolais" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Monty Latiolais</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> once said, our time in the sun is complete. It has been a fantastic run, a spectacular one even. I couldn’t and wouldn’t have done it without ODTUG. I encourage </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to invest </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears,_and_sweat" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">blood, sweat, and tears</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> into ODTUG because that hard work will pay you back a thousand fold as it has for me and so many others.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-27285986855051949922017-09-06T13:35:00.000-04:002017-09-06T13:35:38.833-04:00What are you doing the rest of your life? Or at least what are you doing for the rest of the 20th of September?<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-2dbf5df1-5841-2221-c052-cde22cd5aaeb" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alas, I cannot provide </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkp-pCJYCc" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Dusty Springfield</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for a number of reasons (alas she’s dead, were she alive I’m not sure we’d be BFFs (alas, again, for me this time), and I’ll bet the number of you Gentle Readers who actually like this kind of music rounds down to zero but maybe </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8JalbLLiTE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">this</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> exposure will change a few minds), but I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> provide an excellent opportunity for Bay Area (NB – One should, apparently, </span><a href="https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-frisco-the-history-of-san-francisco-s-nicknames-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-5c14348d49c" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">never refer to the area as “Frisco”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> lest hirsute, enraged, and </span><a href="http://www.mensjournal.com/style/collection/dont-be-this-guy-20151026" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">man-bunned baristas</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> take umbrage.) Oracle EPMers to meet, greet, commiserate, and congratulate one another at the </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Oracle-EPM-Meetup/events/242748982/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">San Francisco Bay Area Oracle EPM Meetup</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s go completely backwards (Why not the right way round? Heh, why not?) on this one and give you the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> first. The who is, of course </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Gentle Reader as ultimately, that’s what meetups are all about: people. And this </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/ODTUGers/events/242743648/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG EPM meetup</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has that in spades with </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-seewald-096773a/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Marc Seewald of Oracle</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as well as Western Digitals’s </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamlroy/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Roy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreeputreddi/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Sree Putreddi</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-govostes-9129302/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Govostes</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All of this being organized by longtime Oracle EPM manager </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklinchow" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Frank Chow</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in cooperation with the </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/epm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG EPM Community</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond the normal meetup networking and sharing, there is real business and technical content. To wit, Mark Seewald will cover something near and dear to every Oracle EPM customer: Oracle EPM’s roadmap. Seriously, with all of the noise and rumors swirling about you owe it to yourself to hear just what Oracle has to say.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Your fellow customers aren’t MIA: the team from Western Digital will be there to discuss their journey from on-premises to Exalytics </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the cloud. Without exaggeration, that’s got to be a fascinating story both in terms of how it was done but </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EPM @ WDC</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why did WDC decide to move to EPM Cloud</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WDC Current Oracle EPM Footprint (On-Prem & Cloud)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s on Wednesday, 20 September, 2017, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Google’s offices, Google Bldg Plymouth 1. 1500 Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why? Why? Really? Why? Ah, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is because while </span><a href="http://www.kscope18.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is awesome, like Christmas it </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p17kBv8F5I" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">comes but once a year</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; meetups are on offer all year round. Yes, they aren’t a </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/07/kscope17-its-wrap.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">week of awesomeness</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, but the same people (well, at least some of them) come to meetups plus others who don’t get the chance and the same subject that is near and dear to all of us – EPM in all its forms – is the subject of discussion. It’s vital to your job (come to think of it, mine as well) to be </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/au-courant" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">au courant</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on all things EPM and meetups are an excellent way to do that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Frank, Marc, and the guys from Western Digital, won’t you?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Oracle-EPM-Meetup/events/242748982/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to attend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you there.</span></div>
Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-44447531358280267482017-08-03T10:39:00.000-04:002017-08-03T10:39:55.884-04:00Drill to Detail Ep.37 'How Essbase Won the OLAP Wars' With Special Guest Cameron Lackpour<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8d1caec4-a887-9f26-8d72-ed5553d29be4" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrittman/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Rittman’s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> take on (I am just going to crib directly from </span><a href="https://www.drilltodetail.com/podcast" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">the site</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) on the business and strategy of analytics, big data, and distributed processing in the cloud in the form of podcast interviews with the geeks (I may have added this descriptor) who make it all happen. I particularly like the way his interviews and interviewees contextualize technologies within markets, companies, and across history. There’s nothing else like it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If this sounds overly ambitious, know that the execution exceeds the vision. Why? Because Mark interviews the Great and the Good of our (and many other) professional spaces to get their take on technology, products, markets, trends, and futures. Some of the luminaries most of us should recognize are Stewart Bryson, Dan McClary, Graham Spicer, Robin Moffatt, Vasu Murthy, Chris Webb, Gwen Shapira, Adrian Ward, and Donald Farmer who speak on tools and subjects as diverse as Gartner groupings, Big Data, Kudu, Hadoop, various forms of BI, Cloud (of course), DI, OLAP, and now… Essbase.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, Essbase. And yeah, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yr. obt. svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> But don’t let that last bit put you off. </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I could write all kinds of (un)funny jokes about how Mark made some sort of mind numbing mistake bringing me on (and would likely get many to agree) and could write all kinds of quite truthful remarks about how many others could have done better. Instead I’ll just shut up for once and be grateful. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope is without doubt the peak of my professional year. Who knows, it might be the peak of my personal year but that would be sad so I won’t admit it except in the dark recesses of my heart when I lay awake in bed, staring at the ceiling, realizing the futility of Man, the comedy of life, my profound sense of</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ennui</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and the eventual entropy death of the universe. But then all I need do is think of ODTUG and Kscope and all is right with the world. It’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Asia (or very often everywhere else in the world) there’s what’s called the Asian “Yeah!” when being photographed via what looks like the peace sign. Yeah, yeah, a stereotype, but go query the Great Googly Moogly and you’ll see I’m right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And Celvin doing the same in a different session. Groovy is groovy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking of delusional, here’s newly minted Oracle ACE Gary Adashek. Despite Gary’s questionable taste in dress, he made it to ACE, leapfrogging over ACE Associate which is proof positive if proof be needed that he is pretty awesome. And has a strange love of trains.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My former boss, Tracy McMullen is moderating the Planning ACE Lunch n’ Learn. She still talks to me so there’s proof that forgiveness is possible in this lifetime. OTOH, perhaps she’s remembering our time not all that long ago as Tracy is shooting one of those “Could-these-eyes-actually-launch-little-daggers-if-I-really-really-tried?” looks at me. So maybe forgiveness isn’t in the cards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Women In Technology lunch. I enjoyed being the token male at my table and having my Favorite Customer Ever, Amy Dailey, sitting to my left. At least she wasn’t cruel to me. I kid, I kid, I really enjoy the lunch as I can take criticism. Also, I think I agreed with all of what was said. It’s a good event.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is this the Kscope Wednesday night special event? Surely, yes. Look at those suits – snazzy. Look at the ladies’ frocks – beautiful. Highballs and cocktail glasses and of course the witty repartee that Kscope is well known for – what could be more elegant? </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2-fHNgHg4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">And dancing</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Surely ODTUG’s members are much the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m the Junior Executive type talking to the blonde.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alas, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97XTMBLkQ8Q" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">it isn’t 1963</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you believe that those dancers aren’t proud ODTUG members? Neither would I.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hah! See, I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> you I was the elegant (ahem) guy talking to a blonde woman. Here’s Alexsandra and Yours Truly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not the only one who finds them adorable. Here’s my new bestie, Neviana Zhgaba contemplating a Federal offence. Don’t do it Neviana, no matter how cute she is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the sad faces of the prediabetic. From left to right that’s Joe Aultman, Tim German, and Pete Nitschke.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And yet it has a cost. As I showed in the beginning of this post, I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep. I wasn’t the only one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are many people I haven’t mentioned. To all of you, thank you for making Kscope truly the height of my professional year. There’s nothing to touch it.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-9882441807890307502017-06-28T11:15:00.001-04:002017-07-05T07:01:26.581-04:00Kscope17, day 2, part 1, and a happy annoucement<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e07f963c-ef44-75c2-56e4-bf25edbfdcb4" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And what, Cameron, what makes you write this? What oh what oh what?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because Gary Adashek is now an Oracle ACE! </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Does he deserve it? Yes. Does he deserve to be teased mercilessly about his strange love for the product that was key in his advancement (beyond his intelligence, hard work, conscientiousness, and general awesomeness)? Even more yes. Is he completely unafraid to look like a complete goof in his heartfelt approach to helping others? Even more than more yes. </span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-44429926787761553062017-06-27T13:13:00.002-04:002017-06-27T13:13:25.463-04:00Kscope 17, day 1, part 2<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OMG, I’m already exhausted</span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not sure anyone could tell the difference (or indeed, care) that after the first full day, I am already at 3 ½ hours of sleep. It isn’t going to get better. And yet, Gentle Reader, here is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Obt., Fthl., & Most Hmbl. Svt. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tip tapping away with my usual drivel. Into every life some rain must fall on your (not mine) head.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So, Cameron, what did you do yesterday evening?</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Check out yesterday’s post for detail up the evening community entertainment. I am semi-ashamed to admit that I went to the BI, not the EPM, event. Why, Cameron, why? ‘Cos I got to see this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Embarrassing photos aside, the event was fantastic and were just pipped to 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> place (it was a pub quiz with a Texas flavor) by those !@#$ing cowboys. Bastards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the 10</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> anniversary of my bestie Natalie Delamar. ODTUG Madame President went all out as usual with a party. It was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">amazing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Thank you, Ride or Die Girl. It’s been quite a trip, and one I wouldn’t have missed for anything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who knew that Gabby Rubin moonlights as a barman? The drinks he made were </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">amazing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Incredble. Awesome. Thank you so much, Gabby.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-52845992185835154882017-06-26T16:57:00.001-04:002017-06-26T16:57:56.014-04:00Kscope17, day 1<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-76943188159110967992017-06-25T14:34:00.002-04:002017-06-26T16:58:44.904-04:00Kscope17, day 0<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No, not Year 0, but the day before Kscope proper kicks off.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How I wish I could tell you what Oracle has told us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But I can’t. Seriously, Oracle embargoed us on Tweeting, blogging, etc. about what they discuss, reveal, and review. Does that stop </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? Yes. Does it stop others? No. You’ll have to decide who is the wiser.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But what you </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> do is follow me on Twitter as I retweet others. I think this means that I am an accomplice after the fact which, were this a court of law (I am an unbelievably huge fan of The Sweeny if you’re looking for a good police procedural), that would be enough to send me off to hard porridge. As I’m not before the bar, I’m going to throw myself on the mercy of the Oracle court.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow me on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/cameronlackpour" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">@CameronLackpour</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get the latest. I’ll do my best to update this blog as the day goes on but it’s difficult to keep up. Also, as I become more and more sleep deprived not only will the quality of these posts decrease but the delay between </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">X</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> happened and I report it even in the same day becomes more and more unlikely.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The latter is where I am right now. As </span><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/CubeCoderDotCom" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim German</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and I are presenting on </span><a href="http://kscope17.com/component/seminar/seminarslist#Essbase%20Cloud%20is%20Here.%20Now%20What?" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase cloud on Tuesday</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I am happy to see that we haven’t as yet (only halfway through Gabby Rubin’s session) gotten anything wrong.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-18169377980034468342017-06-23T17:12:00.001-04:002017-06-23T18:21:27.039-04:00The Dodeca Symposium at Kscope17<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-6b061f13-d6c9-97cf-9ff0-bf6a5fbf8b30" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday isn’t the end of Dodeca content at Kscope for there are sessions throughout the week. Note that these are almost exclusively by customers, not consultants aka </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wretched of the Earth</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. NB – I am a consultant and I heartily encourage you to come to my sessions but there can be no greater recommendation than that of a satisfied buyer. </span><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/1916_06_10-035_SP.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask the geek who owns one</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn how Abbott, The Kroger Company, Wells Fargo, Williams Energy , and LinkedIn combine Dodeca and Essbase to solve their business needs. Like many companies, they have diverse requirements. Join this session to find out how they implemented and build upon their Essbase footprint with the Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System. Participate in the Q&A session and ask questions directly to the panel. Dodeca - not just for planning, reporting, and analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Jude Medical identified three key technical hurdles to converting their worldwide planning applications to a single ASO database. Learn how Currency Translation, Workforce, and Supporting Details’ complex functionality was achieved using core Essbase functionality with Dodeca’s versatility. Seamless integration between relational input views and Essbase provided for employee-level workforce planning and generalized supporting details inputs. Simple operations in BSO are not so simple in ASO such as currency conversion. Join us to learn how SJM was able to surmount these obstacles with increased efficiency and reduced complexity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kroger is scaling Oracle Hyperion Essbase to 25,000 users and putting timely data in the hands of the tactical resources in thousands of stores. Stores can drill through to invoices, write back their labor estimates, and manage allocation factors that are critical to corporate through the Dodeca interface.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After an enterprise-wide reorganization, the FP&A group was faced with growing business requirements, slow and outdated systems, missed deadlines, and frustrated users. Learn how Williams super-charged its EPM environment using Planning, Essbase ASO, and Dodeca to cut processing times from four hours to 15 minutes and increase data capacity by over 10 times. With the system bottlenecks removed, the finance organization is not only meeting deadlines, but performing more comprehensive analyses and other projects neglected previously due to system restraints. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In case it isn’t obvious I am a huge fan of Dodeca (</span><a href="http://www.developingessbasebook.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I even wrote a book chapter about it</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Also, if you clicked on the links in this post you’ll have noticed that I am also quite a </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Lines-BLONDIE/dp/B00005MNP8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498250434&sr=8-1&keywords=blondie+parallel+lines" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Blondie</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> fan although even I can’t stretch a connection between the two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join me, the Applied OLAP team, and most of all Dodeca’s satisfied customers this Sunday, won’t you?</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-28929744842893886432017-06-15T18:25:00.000-04:002017-06-15T22:17:19.267-04:00Kscope17: The (mostly) good, the (not hardly) bad, and the ugly (have you seen geeks party?)<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-23a65150-adda-0f98-6f1c-b6ddd0824c5b" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But beyond alienating my ever-diminishing group of followers, the purpose of this post is to suggest a few sessions that I – and you – Really Ought to See at Kscope.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Usually I painstakingly break this out by day and by track and by technology and some other obsessive selection criteria that drive you – and me – completely round the bend. Nope, not gonna do that this time, mostly because I am – as has been pointed out to me with some force – lazy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In reading this you will note that there are conflicting sessions. This isn’t because I have finally been successful in cloning myself – Could the world take more than one Cameron? I certainly couldn’t. – but because I am as always torn when it comes to choosing sessions. I want to go </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but I also want to go </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over there</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and at the same time I need to be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">there</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. :( Where I’ll end up won’t be determined until I actually am facing the decision. See, I am both indecisive </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> lazy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can look all of this up at </span><a href="http://www.kscope17.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope17.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the below to see what’s going to be covered but the big things I’m interested in are product direction related although there is a good smattering of technique sessions as well. And yes, this is a copy-and-paste from the conference website but: I am lazy and the presenters, including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Obt. & Fthl. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, spent an awful lot of time writing these abstracts during the submission process. How could I do a better job? Exactly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There isn’t as far as I can tell any official agenda for the Sunday symposium but it is definitely not something to miss. You can read about the reaction to the announcement about the rebirth (delayed execution?) of what exactly is on-premises EPM 11.2 </span><a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/1497472240/last-1497550145/%28View+Thread+and+Replies%21%29" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:45 AM Keynote: Matt Bradley, Sr. VP of Business Analytics Product Development</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:30 AM On-Premise Update</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:00 AM Bridge to Cloud (Hybrid)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:00 PM Lunch Cibolo Canyon 5/6/7</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:00 PM EPM Cloud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:30 PM Special Preview from the Data Relationship Management Team</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:10 PM EPM Cloud (Continued)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4:30 PM BI Cloud Services for EPM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subtopic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> MDX </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the release of Essbase 11.1.2.4.010, it is now possible to get clean MDX output from a MaxL script. This opens many doors and possibilities for developers and power users, and makes knowing how to write a solid MDX script - a must-have skill for Essbase professionals.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this session, EPM Principal Technologist and Oracle ACE, Gary Crisci, will discuss the fundamentals of writing MDX scripts. He will introduce the new delimited output options and discuss different ways to leverage this new feature. Gary will show attendees how they can use their MDX scripts to create advanced reports for users and how to format data for ingestion to other systems. Gary will also discuss how to use the Query & Load (Q&L) method to leverage MDX scripts as an alternative to ASO calc scripts. Don’t miss this informative session from a noted MDX expert.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jun 26, 2017, Monday Session 3 , 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> EPM Infrastructure - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subtopic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do these Infrastructure as a Service offerings stack up in terms of features, price, and performance? We will set up an all-in-one Hyperion environment including Planning and HFM on four major public cloud providers and discuss ease of use, management, and how a Hybrid cloud environment integrates with your on-premise systems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Calc Manager is at the center of Oracle’s EPM suite. It’s the place to develop logic for Essbase, HFM, and Planning on-premise or in the cloud. It’s chock full of advanced features, and it’s quite a task to master all of them. That’s where we come in. Join Ludovic De Paz, TopDown Consulting senior manager, and Ron Moore, TopDown Consulting solutions architect, for a deep dive into some of the more advanced features of Calc Manager.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will focus on features that save time and/or allow developers to do things they otherwise couldn’t do and explore:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• how to take advantage of Calc Manager’s modular nature to develop rules and rule sets quickly and benefit from reusability </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• all types of variables and some advanced variable tricks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• how to troubleshoot using the debugger, error messages, and logs (especially with the cloud) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• how to use custom-defined templates to adapt your rules to different outlines and applications</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• how to use custom-defined functions </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This session promises to satisfy the most geeky of you, and with several real-life stories and demos you will be able to take your business rules to the next level.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The mother, the king, or the queen of all CDFs has arrived. This session talks about the latest CDF offering from Calc Manager, which can be used to write CDFs from calculation scripts itself. What if you want to execute a SQL procedure from calc script? What if you want to run a select statement?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All that and beyond is now possible with @CalcMgrGroovyString and @CalcMgrGroovyNumber functions. This session will include sample codes for all the topics covered above.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase must be automated, but most Essbase automation consists of a MaxL script within a .cmd/.sh file. But that’s crude, inconsistent, and a maintenance nightmare. A better approach is a parameter-driven automation framework that dynamically spawns batch streams, applies the same processes consistently, and – because the actual code base is small – centralizes maintenance. As a bonus, this ease of development streamlines the migration from development to quality to production. Join Bill Bradstreet as he describes, demonstrates, and dives into a programming methodology and the code behind it to show how you can bring the power and flexibility of this approach to your system today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember when Essbase could be installed from a floppy disk? You could get a cube up and running in a couple of days. Well, those days are back with the new Essbase Cloud Service (EssCS). Essbase in the cloud takes us back to simpler times where you can build an Essbase database with a simple Excel spreadsheet template. All you need is Excel and Essbase on the Cloud. Join us for the session where we will walk you through Essbase Cloud Service and how to build Essbase applications in the 21st century. Don't miss this chance to get to know (reacquainted with) the new-old Essbase.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Confused about which solution to pursue for Essbase visualization? We compare Web Analysis vs. Tableau vs. Oracle</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As with all of their cloud products, Oracle wants EPBCS to be friendly to users and administrators in the business community, reducing the level of technical expertise required to implement and maintain the application. Techies everywhere are left to wonder what role is left for them. This session provides the answer. From new techniques for creating custom functions to tweaking the user interface to automating processes and data flows, you'll see there is still plenty for the geeky among us to do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinking about elevating your organization’s workforce planning solution? Want to see a detailed demo of the capabilities of the latest version of Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) SWP (Strategic Workforce Planning) and Workforce Planning modules? What has changed since the days of deployment in on-premise, and how can you be leveraging the enhanced functionality for your organization? Learn the differences between an on-premise deployment and strategies for getting you to the cloud in no time. The demo will have a unique San Antonio twist to get you in the spirit of being in the heart of South Texas. Join seasoned WFP architects and Kscope speakers Ludovic De Paz and San Antonio native Nicholas Blazosky for this informative deep dive into the newly enhanced world of Workforce. </span></div>
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<a href="http://kscope17.com/component/seminar/presenterlist?last_id=169" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim German</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Qubix</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Co-presenter(s):</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Kumar Ramaiyer, Oracle Corporation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come put your questions to members of the team who build Essbase and Essbase Cloud Service. This panel discussion is co-presented by Kumar Ramaiyer and Mike Larimer, both of Oracle Corporation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase Cloud Service: Architectural Evolution </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subtopic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase Design </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase Cloud Service: How did it come about? What are its architectural foundations? Why does that matter?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To think that EssCS is an evolution of the Essbase we've known and loved since 1992 is to vastly underestimate its power and importance. Moving to the cloud was an opportunity to completely remake Essbase from the ground up -- design, functionality, management, and hardware have all changed and for the better. Understanding the conceptual, architectural, and technical forces that drove this fundamental shift will enable you to extract the true value of this transformation in your current and new applications. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Kumar Ramaiyer, vice president of development at Oracle, as he explains how the confluence of development innovations and Essbase resulted in a database unlike any you've seen before.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this session you will get an overview of why and how we use Essbase. You will learn about the business problems the product solves and how, what’s involved in implementing an Essbase solution, and how it fits into a typical enterprise architecture.</span></div>
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<a href="http://kscope17.com/component/seminar/presenterlist?last_id=174" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Cameron Lackpour</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, ARC EPM</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase Cloud is finally among us. But what does that really mean? How does it fit into our existing EPM environments? What does Essbase Cloud actually do that’s better than before? What paths are not taken? In short, does Essbase Cloud live up to its promise? Join Tim German and Cameron Lackpour as they explore and explain Essbase Cloud’s’: architecture, functionality, use cases, cost, and performance. This comprehensive review of the essence of Essbase in the cloud gives you the answers and direction you need to go forward with Essbase now and in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn about new and upcoming Essbase capabilities with Oracle Analytics Cloud. Explore the new ways to create and manage Essbase applications, new scripting options, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many organizations have made the switch from an on-premise Oracle Hyperion Planning solution to Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). This move allows them to take advantage of the benefits that exist in an Oracle SaaS model and some of the newer features available in PBCS. However, many other organizations, while very interested, are hesitant to make this leap, in fear of the unknown and the potential process involved in migrating to this model. In this session, you will learn from industry experts about a variety of considerations, tips, and methodologies utilized in planning and executing this type of change. Specifically, this session will explore the dynamics of this migration through real-life examples, including the steps for assessing the current application(s), decisions surrounding a "lift and shift" versus a "rebuild" approach, the process for executing the migration, and how to acclimate system administrators and users to a PBCS (cloud) methodology and interface. Additionally, this session will explore the facets of data integration and security; how these capabilities may be the same or different than the current on-premise model; and how to build a strategy to successfully create these capabilities in PBCS. Please join us in navigating from the ground to the cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Deep Dive into All Things Planning from On-Premise to PBCS to EPBCS </span></div>
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<a href="http://kscope17.com/component/seminar/presenterlist?last_id=221" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Rinaldi</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Oracle Corporation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Mark Rinaldi, Shankar Viswanathan, and Prasad Kulkarni as we take a deep dive into all things Planning from on-premise to PBCS to EPBCS.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Roadmaps</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Functionality differences between on-premise Planning, PBCS, and EPBCS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Migration from on-premise to cloud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Simplified user interface</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Excel-based application creation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Q&A with Oracle regarding product strategy and roadmap</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jun 27, 2017, Tuesday Session 9, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) is one of Oracle’s broad selection of enterprise-grade cloud solutions delivered via software as a service. This session provides an overview of this solution and an update on new and planned functionality.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subtopic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Other Essbase </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visualization provides a means by which you can gain insight into your data. For some, visualization can be a report that appears in their e-mail inbox or on a web page. For others, it could be a grid of numbers with a chart in Excel. The key is to provide the correct, most efficient approach to users. It is far easier to spot trends, patterns, anomalies, etc., when you can examine the data, in its entirety in a single view. If the data set is so large that you find yourself scrolling up and down and side to side, your analysis will suffer. To meet the challenge posed by larger data sets, software vendors have created new ways to query data that promote better visualization. In this session, we will introduce you to Tableau, formerly available in Smart View as Hyperion Visual Explorer, as visualization option against Essbase.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For as long as there has been Essbase, people building financial applications have wanted to perform intercompany elimination calculations. Unlike HFM, Essbase up to now has not had this capability built in. So what to do, especially if eliminations are a key part of your reporting or planning requirements? Various approaches have been taken over the years and interestingly, there may be no one ideal solution even today.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This session will compare four techniques for calculating eliminations: three purely within Essbase and a fourth using an adjunct relational database. We’ll examine each according to these criteria, so you can choose an approach best suited to your needs:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Ease of implementation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Amount of ongoing maintenance required</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Flexibility</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Performance</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New to EPM Cloud and want to know the ins and outs of managing your service? Then this is the session for you. Topics include service provisioning, backup and restore, security and user management, and service maintenance. This is the one-stop destination to orient you with everything you need to know about the operational aspects of working with EPM Cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join us as we take a deep dive into some of the ways the Essbase calculation engine can be used to solve complex business problems, all derived from real-life examples learned from the school of hard knocks. Techniques include combining spreadsheets and calc scripts to compute variances for hundreds of member combinations, designing recursive calculations to analyze a product’s components, and building a structure that allows user input to any level of a hierarchy. We’ll review the different methods of writing allocations, ways to optimize your parallel calculations, and block creation techniques and calculation features you are told “never to use” but might want to use anyway. This presentation is intended for intermediate Essbase developers, but all are welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subtopic:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Essbase Calculation </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Doing what-if isn’t new. As long as I can remember everyone talked about it and the goal-seeking functionality using LOOP has been around for decades. But do most of our calculations use causal drivers or are they “type it in and agg it up” type databases? And how much "what-if-ing" can you really do if the database takes an hour to aggregate? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Today more and more companies are using driver-based designs and recent improvements such as hybrid aggregation, new calculation functions, and bigger hardware mean that there are new possibilities. Profit opportunities don’t usually follow simple linear patterns. Well-designed driver-based models capture complex patterns and help identify risks and opportunities that would otherwise be missed. Goal-seeking can significantly reduce the time it takes to set and distribute targets. Sensitivity analysis can help set priorities by identifying the most important drivers. It can also help compare a range of options to identify sweet spots. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First we will examine the business logic behind some useful what-if calculations that help uncover financial dynamics that make a difference in business results. Then we will examine the outline and business rule considerations and options. Then we will dig into the code. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will show examples of outlines and business rule code for:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Pushing down top-side budget adjustments </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Driver based what-if calculations</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Goal-seeking for target setting</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Prioritization and range comparison with sensitivity analysis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last we will show some examples of using these techniques in real-world applications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning is Essbase, Essbase is Planning. This powerhouse multi-dimension database enables Planning but then shackles it with BSO’s long aggregation time and ASO’s poor procedural calculations. Hybrid Essbase breaks these architectural constraints by combining the calculation power of BSO with the aggregation performance of ASO and as a result fundamentally transforms how we design Planning applications.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join Peter Nitschke and Cameron Lackpour as they demonstrate the value of Hybrid Essbase through its impact on real-world Planning design. You’ll see multiple plan type applications collapsed into one, plan types literally small enough to fit on a USB stick, real-world performance benefits, and calculation techniques that take best advantage of Hybrid while working around its current limitations. The best use case of Hybrid Essbase is Planning and if you’re a Planning practitioner you should be using Hybrid Essbase. To do that, you need to attend this session and bring our real-world Hybrid Essbase experience to your application today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Internet of Things (IoT), also known as the Industrial Internet, is changing the way industries work. By combining machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, industrial big data analytics, technology, cybersecurity, and automation, it’s driving new levels of efficiency and productivity. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if you could predict events before they happened? By connecting machines, gaining operational visibility, and leveraging analytics, you can drive operations to their fullest potential and predict what will happen before it occurs.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GE’s Predix platform is a cloud-based solution that can capture industrial data. Now that you have this valuable information, how do you get it in the hands of the people who need it and in a tool that allows them to use the information to make better decisions?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this presentation, Gary Crisci, principal data and information architect, Shyam Nath, partner account director, and Venkat Kailasam, senior data and information architect, will walk you through the Internet of things (IoT). We will illustrate how we capture industrial data from sensors using GE’s Asset Performance Management SaaS cloud solution to determine leading indicators of when large maintenance events are likely to be due and what the nature of the maintenance required will be. Lastly, we will demonstrate how to transfer the data into an Oracle PBCS cloud application for planning and budgeting purposes.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come learn about the next great frontier in information technology and how we are leveraging EPM and IoT to drive better business decisions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter (surely all of the sensible ones but here you are reading this so who knows), </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CameronLackpour/status/869377421254037504" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">just</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> made the deadline</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for </span><a href="http://kscope17.com/component/seminar/seminarslist#Essbase%20Cloud%20is%20Here.%20Now%20What?" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope17 presentation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> submissions. Is it possible that I may have waited till the last minute? Possibly. I will note that </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CubeCoderDotCom" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim German</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, my copresenter, had his slides to me in plenty of time so I suppose I have to own the almost-deadly tardiness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Those unfortunates who know me know that I use </span><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VMWorkstation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to virtualize server and client instances to keep software versions separate: client X uses 11.1.2.3.500 so that goes to Win 7 VM 1, client Y uses 11.1.2.4 </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/02/stupid-programming-tips-no-31.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">and I want to use Office 2016 so that goes to Win 10 VM1</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, etc. All well and good, but the VM I use to do Essbase Cloud (yes, really, I do this) had the GA Cube Designer and I couldn’t get that upgrade to work. Yes, I could have spun up another VM but I am lazy so thought I’d simply upgrade it. That was possibly not a good idea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – I’ve redacted server names and IP addresses. </span><a href="http://www.word-detective.com/2008/08/take-it-as-read/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Take it as read</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (This is a Britishism? </span><a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-lor1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord love a duck</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I had no idea, which (the bit about the duck) also turns out to be an English expression. It think I spend too much time around </span><a href="http://www.cubecoder.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim German</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><a href="http://essbasedownunder.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pete Nitschke</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><a href="https://medium.com/mark-rittman" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Rittman</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or…who knows, maybe I’m just an </span><a href="https://glosbe.com/en/en/odd%20duck" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">odd duck</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Heh, probably so.) when I say that the GA URL and the beta URL are not same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fwiw, I was actually connected to the OAC instance. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The maddening thing was that Cube Designer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">then showed up</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as a Smart View extension. Success? No, because while the new version (105) of Cube Designer showed up, it wasn’t actually installable. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si_-bh9XBNE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Drat, foiled again</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first suggestion was to make sure I was connected to the new OAC instance. ‘Natch, I did that from the start.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next suggestion was to get rid of all of those horrible, redundant, and wrong (mostly) connections in the Smart View options. I am somewhat embarrassed to admit I’ve never done this. Sigh, another example of my well-deserved reputation for laziness. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Happily, there are those who are not as lethargic as I and went out and figured out how to do this: </span><a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-to-clear-smart-view-urls-from.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Gary Adashek’s blog showes how to get rid of the properties.xml file that defines those entries.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Huzzah! I thought but no, it still didn’t work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So deleting one list of connections didn’t help but it was suggested by Oracle. Was there something else I might delete? I wasn’t quite ready for the metaphorical analogue </span><a href="http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/Products.asp?mi=15891" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">of this</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but I was pretty close. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah, but beyond the brute force approach that Gary outlined, it turns out that there’s another way to delete connection URLs over in Smart View connection panel. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Btw, I have no idea, how Oracle Journals made its way onto my VM. Perhaps I will be an accountant in future? For the sake of every company out there let’s hope not as I get calls of exasperation from my accountant round tax time and what I’ll do to their close process doesn’t bear thinking about.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-64896151642376398012017-05-18T14:02:00.001-04:002017-05-18T14:02:35.932-04:00Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 3 -- Costing the Essbase Cloud<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c65a2ee8-1cb5-c2d1-e483-f0b67c88fd05" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Price-Glory-James-Cagney/dp/B0001NBMIA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">What price Essbase?</span></a></h1>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Get_It_for_You_Wholesale_(film)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I can(‘t) get it for you wholesale</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oft times when I set pen to paper, I endeavor to get the geeky part of whatever I write just as accurately as I can manage to do. Yes, I get bits wrong – Hah! You’ll never, probably, know ‘cos I have a legion of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">haters</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> fans who read my missives to you, Gentle Reader, with the zeal of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Carrie Nation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> coming across </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%27s_New_York_Bar" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Harry’s New York Bar</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> whilst travelling </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Europe-Dollars-Reproduction-Original-Printing/dp/0470165642" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Europe on $5</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a day (‘natch, back home the 18</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Amendment has shut down the honest whistle-wetting establishments so she’s got to go overseas) and, upon finding a teensy-weensy error on my part (</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbHtzqCge_8&feature=youtu.be&t=66" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase is a very large egg that has gone off? Planning is a color that reminds me of love? I am a genius as yet undiscovered? Non sequiturs are my chosen </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">métier</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">?</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ) point it out to me most lickety-split so that I may thus correct it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">before you even know it</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. – but they’re generally fixed just as soon as I can mutter </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">culpa mea culpa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and try to atone for the error of my ways.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unhappily, this post finds me (sorry, could not resist) in the unenviable position of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an almost certainty of being corrected</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> because: none of this is technical, some of the information came to me secondhand, I’m making wild </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_wild-ass_guess" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SWAGs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> about the mix of products, and, as </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/2011/12/math-class-is-tough/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbie once infamously said</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, “Math class is hard”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On my laptop resides a Windows VM. On that VM runs Windows 2008 Server (legally purchased I might note). On that Windows install runs (most of) EPM 11.1.2.4. You almost certainly have access to something like this. You’ve paid for it (you’d better, Oracle customers, or an audit from Hell aka Oracle Contracts is almost certainly on its way), or you’re using it to evangelize the glories of Oracle software for free (Hah!, a second time because we all know I am far too lazy and stupid to ever profit from this blog.) and thus can use it for educational purposes which I fervently hope is tickety-boo with Oracle. No matter how you’re here, you have a server(s), and someone installed Essbase and EPM and everything that goes with that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’re using it in a commercial on-premises context, you’re paying for it. There’s an upfront license fee and then a yearly maintenance charge equivalent to 22% of Essbase’s (or EPM-whatever’s) list price. The server you run it on, the OS that surrounds Essbase, the relational database that supports EPM repositories, the backup software your firm buys, the antivirus package, the data center, etc., etc., etc., belong to your employer. You (or your company) get to choose Linux over Windows, the Oracle Database over SQL Server, and so on down the line as you configure what makes Essbase your Essbase. The choices and the costs are yours.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase aka Oracle Analytics Cloud is totally different.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No prison pallor is on the menu, but I can’t really know what you pay for on-premises Essbase nor can I tell you what Oracle will actually sell Essbase Cloud for. The former is unknown because I haven’t (and don’t want to – there’s a reason I never got that JD) read your firm’s contract. The latter is because, as my very first real world boss said, “Everything’s negotiable.” I can say that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">generally</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> there’s a 30% to 35% discount from list price on many of Oracle’s products but what you’ll actually pay is known only to you, your Oracle sales representative, and God. Good luck.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What can I do through this post? Break down all of the bits and bobs that actually comprise an Essbase Cloud instance because it’s not as clear as you might think. With that information, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> can berate/beseech/bargain with your Oracle sales representative when it comes down to cash on the proverbial barrelhead. At least you’ll be forearmed when the reality distortion field known as a Sales Call envelops you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So just what are the components of an Essbase Cloud instance? I’m not at all sure how one would figure that out based on OAC’s </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/oac/pricing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">pricing page</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> which really doesn’t list what it takes to truly run OAC. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What you see below is my </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">best guess</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as to what a customer actually needs to buy to get OAC at his company. I could be – maybe am – wrong on this but as noted, this is what I can suss out. I’ll correct this as I get corrections. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s nothing secret here; your sales representative tell you all of this anyway (and as noted may correct some bits). Regardless of the final validity of this information, my naiveté re just what makes up a cloud product appears to be without end: I had no idea it took this many components. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are two paths to non-metered Essbase aka Oracle Analytic Cloud. I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">believe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but am not sure that the Enterprise product has full fat BICS as well as everything else in OAC. See, I lied (again) when I wrote that this post would be uncorrectable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B87389 Oracle Analytics Cloud - Enterprise- Non-Metered – OCPU which includes: BICS Mobile, 50 named users of Data Visualizer desktop per OCPU, Smart View for all users, one BICS administrator (I believe the significance of this is that Enterprise OAC is full BICS), and however many OCPUs you buy.. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – It’s not clear to me if metered and non-metered services can be combined, e.g. could a customer buy non-metered OAC but metered Storage? OMG, have I mentioned who has the answer to this? I have, haven’t I?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB yet again – Although the OAC pricing page notes both metered and non-metered OAC, I can’t find OAC’s metered product numbers in Oracle’s Public Cloud Service Descriptions as of the writing of this post. It’ll likely be there soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My bestest and most awesomest and quite likely wrongest</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">guess</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as to what makes up metered OAC:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B78521 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">list</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> prices. Prices you can find, publicly, across all of those Read The Whole Thing™ links above. What will you really pay? As noted, it’s all negotiable and the only person that can really say is that Oracle sales rep I keep on referring to. I am so far removed from the sales process I might as well be on another planet. Come to think of it, I likely am on another planet (Vulcan? </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Ursa_Minor_Beta" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Usra Minor Beta</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?) which explains all kinds of goofiness in my life both professional and personal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A caveat re metered pricing: I can’t even begin to understand it. Read the docs, talk to your internal IT pricing analysts, talk to Oracle, but importantly, don’t bother asking me. Non-metered is far easier although not necessarily a better fit for you. Have I mentioned that you ought to talk to Oracle? I have. Again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What kind of Xeon chip at what speed isn’t spelt out in the Service Descriptions document. Shall I repeat the “you should talk to” statement? Good, there’s no need.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Only you can answer that. What you see in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">list</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> prices above is the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">full</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> cost of the product. This is <i>all</i> you pay for non-metered Oracle Analytics Cloud. No servers, no installs, no <strike>fighting</strike> working with IT. You have the <i>whole</i> kit and kaboodle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So what are license costs for on-premises? Were you to buy Oracle Essbase Plus from </span><a href="https://shop.oracle.com/apex/f?p=700:6:::NO:::&success_msg=QWRkZWQgdG8gQ2FydA..%2FSGQ3S-he_hKDzgoPtGR22cihevPhQjguRsbqAeuyXM2wKsf4HrFNPI6VmOx_aFKdb6qFgHouiAlMule0dBB6WA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">shop.oracle.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for four unlimited CPUs for one year the price is…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That almost $200,000 (this number is a bit high because the first year’s support is a one-time charge that differs from the 22% yearly maintenance fee but still) doesn’t include any of the infrastructure or internal support: servers, relational databases, installs, OS license fees, etc. without mentioning Data Visualizer. OAC beats Essbase Plus when comparing list to discounted cost </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> it includes all of the things that PaaS brings to the table.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Analytics Cloud isn’t just a good deal, it’s a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fantastic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> deal. Perhaps you should talk to your Oracle sales rep? Probably.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t think there’s anyone afraid of that. Fire away and I’ll correct accordingly, especially around metered products.</span></div>
Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-90801291121497082812017-05-05T01:08:00.001-04:002017-05-05T01:08:45.126-04:00The Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS No. 21 -- Change is the only constant<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-461ec333-d6ff-f5db-b0e8-d8d94f98d9c7" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I use a lot of Oracle EPM products: Essbase (all the time), Planning (some of the time), Essbase Cloud (more and more of the time), PBCS (some of the time), FDMEE (never of the time but I need to do more (some?) of it), HFM (even looking at the export file gives me the hives) etc., etc., etc. Does this make me an expert? A generalist? A dilettante? Jack of all trades, master of none? You decide as I certainly can’t.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s a lot of products, regardless. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do I need to relearn them every six months? Nope. EAS is EAS is EAS </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Patri" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">world without end</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or at least since 2005-ish. Good, bad, or indifferent (although you’d have to be willfully deaf not to know about the direction Oracle is taking wrt on-premises EPM), the UI has stayed the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In light of </span><a href="http://ashbrook.org/publications/oped-owens-03-warplan/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle’s channeling of Patton channeling</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georges_Danton" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">(mistakenly apparently)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_II_of_Prussia" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Frederick The Great</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (What, you come to this blog for just EPM geekiness?) when it comes to Cloud, Cloud, Cloud, Oracle’s motto is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20l%27audace,%20encore%20de%20l%27audace,%20et%20toujours%20de%20l%27audace" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> And what </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">means is that the UI (and quite a bit of the rest of the toolset) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">changes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. In the example I’m going to give below, I hadn’t seriously looked at PBCS’ UI in about seven months and upon return was…confused.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first set of screenshots are from approximately a year ago (so early 2016) that I used for a </span><a href="http://www.kscope17.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> presentation. There’s no other way (well, I guess if you work at Oracle and can get someone to cough up an old VM) to see what PBCS used to look like other than someone else’s screenshots. And no, I won’t be able to (and don’t want to) examine each and every change. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As noted, there was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> way to do this in the Simplified User Interface or as </span><a href="http://www.jasonwjones.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jason Jones</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> noted, the Candy Crush UI. What do we like: SUI or CCUI? You decide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is typical Workspace design: it looks like Windows Explorer and there’s an awful lot of information that way. I actually prefer this approach as busy as it looks. It’s a PC/Mac paradigm, not an iPhone/iPad interface.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, it’s hard to read.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But, given that I like to keep my Windows 7 looking as close as I can to Windows NT 4.0 that shouldn’t be all that surprising.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And yes, a screenshot of my desktop while writing this post is a bit of an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_mirror" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Infinity Mirror</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFdFdcXKb4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Things Change</span></a></h3>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTA2buWlNyM" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember Workspace</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? Note that Workspace is </span><a href="http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud/pbcs/1612-pbcs-wn.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">gone</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and it ain’t never coming back.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now go either to the pretty buttons to get to Migration:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or use the navigator. Yes, it’s back. That unnamed and unknown product manager has had his revenge. What’s nice (I am capable of a very small amount of grace) about the new navigator is that I can access </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">everything</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from anywhere. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I like the concept of a navigator. I still don’t miss the graphic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once into Migration aka used-to-be-Application Management-aka-used-to-be-LCM the UI is a lot easier to read but has way less information per screen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But oh yeah, prettier.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.in-n-out.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">In-N-Out</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with the old inbox</span></h2>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNqTStUDYk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">What a difference a year makes</span></a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What about changes between versions of the SUI? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note again how this version of the Navigator (which doesn’t have a link to Application Management):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Differs from today’s Navigator:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to 2016: Navigator? Wassthat? Nope, we go to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Console</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get at the Inbox via the Application screen. NB – Today PBCS doesn’t have a Console.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now we’re at the Inbox/Outbox Explorer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upload that file from your local box. Yes, I’d script the whole thing but I am reviewing the UI.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJQ6G7Z_II" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">New Explorer Revue</span></a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That was then, but as noted there is no longer a Console. How then do we get to the Inbox/Outbox Explorer? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Either through the front page’s Overview…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or via Navigator’s Application/Overview link. Choice is good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It isn’t much of a change, but the Overview, Cubes, Dimensions, and Activity Reports are no longer on the side but are now tabs on the top of the Application pane are written out instead of icons. These are minor differences but can be a bit confusing after a long absence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Explorer looks much the same as before.</span></div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/0RRxqg4G-G4?t=123" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The UI of the past</span></a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here we back to the beginning of 2016. Schedule the job with a run-it-right-now property via the sadly-no-longer-with-us Console. Click on the calendar icon (second from the top) on the left hand side and then “Schedule Jobs”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Confirm that it’s to be run.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And here it is a-runnin’.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting into the Scheduler is a bit of a different path.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But once in, the scheduler looks and acts the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So no real change for the rest of the process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yup, it’s the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whew, so at least one bit that’s the same. For now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planned obsolescence</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk about perishable goods. I’ve documented the change between a fraction of PBCS’s administrative UI in 2016 and 2017. I like to pretend that while I’m not writing for the ages, at least my posts are good for a year or two. Given what I’ve shown you, that isn’t likely.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My whining aside, why belabor all of this? Simply that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">your</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> skills, skills that could once be mastered and then left on the figurative shelf, are going to go stale. Stale means obsolescent, and obsolescence means unemployment. It’s always been this way but we’ve had time to adjust during that gap from 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.2.4. No longer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And there are a lot of changes across far more than the UI. A </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lot </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and something that you’re not all that likely to keep up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So what to do? RTM. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle and their documentation team very kindly (perhaps they take pity upon us?) </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/saas/readiness?offering=planning-and-budgeting&version=2016#EnterprisePerformanceManagementReadiness-4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">provide a complete (compleat?) list of all of the changes from 2015 through the present</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> month by month. A feature changes? It’s there. But wait, you get more: readmes, documentation links, and even videos. I know I write a lot about Oracle’s documentation (eh, I write this blog, such as it is, books, presentations, etc. so why wouldn’t I be in favor of documentation?) but my point here is that they spend lots of $,¥, €, and £ to make this all happen. And they need to ‘cos the product changes all the time; the UI is a minor component of the constant change of the Cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PBCS and EPM are but a subset of the other cloud products Oracle has on offer. Gentle Reader, I encourage you in the strongest terms to explore. It’s the only way we can survive.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-34962138738684502162017-04-13T13:31:00.000-04:002017-04-14T17:13:51.988-04:00Miami, Florida ODTUG BI-EPM Oracle Cloud Stack User Event live blog<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-bd7598f2-6e3a-08a8-5918-f8b751ccc843" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where are you? Probably not at the </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/p/bl/et/blogaid=677" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG BI-EPM Cloud Stack User Event</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But I digress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m going </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">to try to live blog </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> totally suck when I try to live blog this meetup (Correction – I have been informed that this is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">summit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Fancy.) as well as do as much live video as I can on Periscope. You can watch that if you are a </span><a href="https://www.periscope.tv/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Periscope</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> user or also watch it via my Twitter feed </span><a href="https://twitter.com/cameronlackpour?lang=en" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">@CameronLackpour</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Your choice as I aim to please. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To be a little fair to myself (eh, still lazy to the core), my laptop was being used for the presentations and my phone was being used for recording so apparently I’d either need to buy another laptop (nope) or phone (double nope) to be able to blog and present and record all at the same time. Whew. Given that the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Chancellor of the Exchequer</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – me – isn’t going to allow that kind of capital expenditure I think I’m going to have to give up the notion of live blogging in future and settle for doing it after the fact.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I know it’s a lot (thank you, wireless carrier, for your “unlimited” data plan as I’m going to do my best to stretch that definition to the limit) to watch but there’s awfully good content if you ignore my presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t know if I’d suggest that you come to a meetup (sorry, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">summit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) because of the food but it’s a thought.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Networking and Lunch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:45 PM - 12:55 PM Welcome and Introductions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Oracle Keynote Speaker: Jacques Vigeant, Senior Director Product Strategy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:00 PM - 2:40 PM Doug Hahn, Enterprise Technology Officer at Invesco, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How Do I Decide What Cloud is Best for Me?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:40 PM - 2:55 PM Break</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 PM - 3:40 PM Phil Bernhardt, Finance Director of Strategic Planning at Scholastic Book Fairs, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scholastic Book Fairs Transitions to Oracle PBCS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:40 PM - 4:20 PM Cameron Lackpour, Oracle ACE Director, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Making the Administrative Transition: On Premises Planning to PBCS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Journey to HCM Cloud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5:15 PM - 5:25 PM Closing Announcements: ODTUG Volunteer Opportunities and ODTUG Kscope17</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; 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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of things that was interesting was that the audience at this meetup (sorry again, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">summit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) was a real mix of attendees:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It actually was almost completely customers – a good thing as otherwise it is a consultant fest presenting to other consultants. Boring.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It actually was a real mix of levels – yes, it is an Executive </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but there were both directors, real honest-to-goodness executives, and Hyperion admins, so again, a good thing and not the norm for meetups which trend towards the geek.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on the snapshot or here: </span><a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OyKAoZdvQMJb" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OyKAoZdvQMJb</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.oracle.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.arcepm.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ARC EPM Consulting</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://skybridgeglobal.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Skybridge Global</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.keyperformanceideas.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Key Performance Ideas</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and of course </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-4622292784396595662017-04-06T23:41:00.002-04:002017-04-06T23:41:41.713-04:00EPM 12c: Read 'em and weep <h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c30c4b24-4680-137c-f769-ed06a9e361eb" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As that saying goes, </span><a href="http://www.knowyourphrase.com/phrase-meanings/Read-Em-and-Weep.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">read 'em and weep</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-epm-12-on-prem-news-flash-john-booth" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-epm-12-on-prem-news-flash-john-booth</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you on-premises people still here? Good. You have a strong will and constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially I (like you I suspect) was stunned by this. After promising and promising and promising us Planning functionality equivalent to PBCS (the release I heard was October 2016's) at Kscope after Kscope Oracle have now for all intents and purposes pulled the plug. Yes, there will likely be PSUs in future, but I cannot see how that will encompass what Planning in particular (but Essbase Cloud as well) offers in functionality . In essence, what you have today in on-premises is what you'll get – bar bug fixes and minor enhancements – for now and for the future. Will this be what the audience come Kscope17's Sunday's symposium look like? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before you lose your minds -- and I am not playing the role of apologist for Oracle -- think very carefully about what you're trying to accomplish with your current install. As John noted (and I'll add on), you have choices in the immediate future:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make like the mildly upset (ahem) villagers and threaten to burn Redwood City (or Palo Alto or Sunnyvale or wherever Oracle EPM is) to the ground. This ought to be good visceral fun. <--John may not have suggested this approach.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dump Oracle like a ton of bricks and switch to some other company. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Move to the cloud whether you want to or not. Even if you think it's not for you, it is now. Enjoy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't do anything at all for the short to medium term. Be like the force of inertia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All of these choices incur cost. Only you can decide if that cost is worthwhile</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In short:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> do the "When in danger when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." routine. Fun to watch; painful to be part of. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> think about how you can (if you want it) put pressure on Oracle to change their mind. Don't be subtle. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> think about what your alternatives are: switch vendors, switch to the cloud, or stay put. (There's always that fourth way of mob violence but I only recommend that as an exercise for the mind no matter how enjoyable it may be.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Consider something else: a major upgrade to 12c was going to be (as EPM on-premises major upgrades </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">are</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> were) expensive, painful, full of bugs, and yet a chance to reconsider what your system does and why and how. Those precepts (and I suspect the pain) hold true no matter what your change in direction may be, only now the direction is something other than on-premises. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On-premises customers would have faced that transition regardless of EPM 12c or no EPM 12c. Would have this conversion been easier if 12c was released? Undoubtedly yes. But is this sort of break potentially good for you and your company to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">really </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">think about what you'll be doing two or so years down the road? Undoubtedly yet painfully yes again so there's some good mixed in with the pain and the rage.</span></div>
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<a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/emily_dickinson/poems/6794" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">That it will never come again, Is what makes on-premises EPM so sweet</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think you'll do once the shock wears off? Dance with mad abandon whether that be with joy or with grief? Head for the nearest bar to see how many </span><a href="javascript:void(0)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">boilermakers</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> you can drink (bonus points if you are teetotal)? Something else?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment care of this blog (or do it to me privately because you don't want to be identified). Oracle read it. I'm not sure they care about it, but they read it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regardless, I'm going to take every single one of your comments and forward them directly to Matt Bradley, Mike Casey, Al Marciante, Shankar Viswanathan, and Rich Wilkie and anyone else I can think of in the EPM product management space. </span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-49259601417405260582017-03-28T21:55:00.000-04:002017-03-28T21:55:20.608-04:00Head in the Essbase Cloud No. 2 -- Up the down staircase<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-0930e813-17be-cc1a-80f3-1937fc91d48c" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the more interesting aspects of Essbase Cloud is that dimension management within Excel is possible. Yes, there’s a web UI that allows this as well but for most things I find it difficult at best to work with. It’s interesting, but it simply doesn’t do a good job in managing a dimension more complex than Sample.Basic’s Period dimension because it doesn’t support any kind of treeview. Don’t believe me? Wait for another blog post where I cover it in detail (this is assuming, of course, that I continue to have access to a pod. Fingers crossed on my part. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, I am – hypocritically of course – going to use Sample.Basic, but in Hybrid mode, to create a member formula and load data]. Some of this (much?) is documented. </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/analytics-cloud/analytics-cloud-docs.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I recommend you Read The Whole Thing as well as commend the documentation team for their valiant effort.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I of course, am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> going to read the documentation because…because </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080377/quotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I eat pain like candy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Instead, I shall follow the path I usually take: blind stumbling about while I try to do something, anything, of use. It’s just how I roll. Later, after frustration overtakes me, I’ll do the manly thing and pretend that I didn’t read said documentation. J/k, I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">do</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> read documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s start off in the web UI. While I reviewed this in my last post, it bears repeating that the hierarchical nature of EAS is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> reflected here and one must pay attention to the context of the page. In the page below, I’m at the server level.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6-szDFhuM" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I read the latest news, No buttons on my shoes</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s the list. While I see good old Sample.Basic (</span><a href="https://www.jasonwjones.com/2016/09/tbc-files-bankruptcy/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jason, honestly, did you think that SdotB would ever die? Really? </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When Essbase is dead and buried, sure. But Oracle and I have kept the faith.), my heart beats a little faster but I’m really interested in the Hybrid version of this. “Pure” BSO is so 1992.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Inconsequential rants aside, I’m going to download the Cube Designer manifestation of MVFEDITWWW to my local drive (oooh, I’ve finally sort of joined the Win 10 world albeit on my own terms and on a VM).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Application, database, and dimension sheets aside, it’s worth noting the last three: Data.Basic, Calc.calcall, and Query.Sample. It looks as though more than just dimensionality is possible within a Cube Designer workbook.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a bit odd. This is a Hybrid-enabled (actually, everything’s Hybrid-enabled as it all goes through the Hybrid query processor – this is true in on-premises as well) database with all aggregations tagged as dynamic so there isn’t really much point in running a CALC ALL. In any case, it’s illustrative of how calc scripts are written. As I haven’t (and won’t for this blog post) tested writing one, I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">think</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that each calc script gets its own Calc.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">calcname</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s even a sample query sheet to help you (someone else?) see what the data ought to look like on load. I’m not sure I understand why this is better than a simple Smart View ad hoc retrieve from scratch but it’s a nice touch regardless.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Editing dimension metadata is as simple as typing into a sheet or using the functionality of offline Cube Designer. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simply click on Cube Designer in the Cube Designer Excel ribbon and then the From Sheet button in the lower right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ta da, you now have a fully disconnected (for now) Essbase database editor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dimensions tab controls metadata columns. In the case of the Measures dimension, I see that Solve Order isn’t visible. By selecting Solve Order and then To Sheet, this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Becomes this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And yes, I could have simply inserted a column, assigned a header row value and have achieved the same goal. But, as has been explained to me, I am lazy, hence the use of Cube Designer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adding a dimension member and assigning properties is an odd mix of CD functions and you-better-know-your-Essbase-Load-Rule properties.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To add a member to a dimension, I must:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Define the child (not hard) and its parent (could be a bit tricky in a large dimension)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Know Essbase Load Rule properties for storage, consolidation, Two Pass, variance reporting (financial intelligence), time balance, formula syntax, solve order, etc. as well as which properties are valid with what, e.g. setting Skip Missing when Time Balance isn’t defined will end up with a FOOM! To be fair, this is all true in an on-premises Load Rule but at least there’s the option of a fully-functional UI in the form of EAS. In Cube Designer, no one can hear you scream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, since I in theory know all this already I’ll get this right the first time round. Actually, I did. I must grasp the small moments as I may.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All I want to do is create a Measure called “Cameron’s test”, make it dynamic calc, do not aggregate, and have a formula of Sales less COGS. Easy peasy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here it is without the formula. Again, I could simply it directly into the cell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or, because I am the fancy sort of chap who revels in his sartorial splendor (if you can call </span><a href="http://www.fjallraven.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Fjällräven</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> fancy) that you have seen at </span><a href="http://www.kscope17.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> over the years, you’ll know I go 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> class and pick the formula editor. Btw, that’s me in the center with the cocktail glass and the smug look at last year’s EPM Monday Night Event. Yes, correct dress is required in ODTUG, cf. the ladies’ frocks. While board dinners are strictly </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tie" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">white tie</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, this was an informal affair. Did I mention that, as per tradition, it ended with the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpKLlV0esbM" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lambeth Walk</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAzF6CoXo8&feature=youtu.be&t=34" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oi!</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although it is quite possible that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">most</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the above paragraph is not true, I did in fact use the formula editor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And what does </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpWBMNyC0w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Port Out, Starboard Home</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> buy me?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh dear, that’s a bit more like steerage. There is: no syntax checking, no choice of a monospaced typeface (that’s not as petty as it sounds), no autoexpand, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no tabbing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, etc. It’s just a textbox. This bit of functionality has a way to go.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whining aside, I enter my formula, click on Save, and the formula is written back to the sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the same vein of this is a 1.0 release, when I click on View Hierarchy I get the beginnings of what will one day (let us pray that it be soon because this has real potential) a highly functional dimension editor in Excel. Seriously, this will be great but it’s early days still.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the meantime, hierarchy move (Go To), rename, edit some parent properties (everything to stored or dynamic – a nice trick to “Hybridize” a dimension), and find is pretty much it. As noted, a good start.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now that I’ve modified the Measures dimension, it’s time to manifest this as a database in the cloud by clicking on Build Cube and then logging in. Note that after the initial download of the template, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> work has been dynamic. Why, you could pull down a database and work on it in your unbelievably-cramped aeroplane seat in what has to be a class </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">below</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Steerage ‘cos that’s how your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hmbl., Fthl., & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> wrote this post. No connexion to the network required until this loading step.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DoublePlus</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> sure? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes? Then let’s begin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And how is everything going?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s not possible to tell without going into the Details:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLMx9MZ24sY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Just when I think you're mine, You try a different line</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closing this dialog box, refreshing the main job list, and then viewing progress via the Details button will, eventually, tell you if your process succeeded or not. However, there’s an easier way and it’s spelt b-r-o-w-s-e-r.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s the autorefresh option in the web job console. I’m not sure why the below screen shows a job in progress and also says that there are 0 active jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ta da, it’s done:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can see this Cube Designer’s job console as well:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there data there? Let’s start up an ad hoc query:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yup, it sure is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So that was Sample.Basic (dynamic) from server template downlaoded to a Windows client manifested as a cloud Essbase database.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqCtWQiYLY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">You get me in a spin, Oh what a stew I'm in</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What about pulling an existing Essbase cloud database down to client </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">without</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a predetermiend template. Does everything come across? It better. Or does it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Export the database:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here it all seems to be. When I ticked the “Show Advanced” box I can then see the dimensions and even pick the dimension build type.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I now have a new file named Sample_Dynamic_Basic.xlsx”. How many ways can Oracle combine those three words? Watch and find out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It mostly looks the same:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But there is no data in the data sheet. That’s odd as I selected the “Add data sheet” option. Perhaps that means create the sheet but do not populate with data? Why? I guess I sort of see and that is after all exactly what the option states. It’s still odd.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, there is a calc up there, but no corresponding calculation sheet:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But what is there is this zip file:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What oh what oh what is inside it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> looks like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IOW, Sample.Basic (dynamic)’s level 0 data.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIccsyra0c" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">But baby, I'm confused about you</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A promising start:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It works a few moments (okay, like 60 or so seconds) later:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What ho! More of the same but this time no data sheet </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">or</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> calc sheet. This isn’t a big deal, just a bit perplexing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DBX? Whatever that is it’ll have to wait for another post. In any case, we now have three possible names:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The naming convention isn’t really important but it’s interesting/odd how Oracle came up with three (really just the latter two but still) naming conventions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if I want to load data? It’s easy enough to create a new (or, because I am lazy, copy) data sheet and then copy and paste text file data into the sheet:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – Make sure you format the cells as text and the paste puts everything into the right columns most licketysplit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Okeydokey, there is now data in a data sheet that looks just like the one used to populate the workbook. I have changed it by multiplying 100-10, New York, Sales and COGS, Actual, and Jan by a factor of 100 to prove that I can load the data.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Surely it will just go in without a load rule as there was none the first time round.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It failed. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unpossible</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Yet there it is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What happened is that the original upload of the application created a load rule for data, just as it did for all of the dimensions. And when that happened, the ability to send data from Cube Designer seems to have gone walkies. But there <i>is </i>a load rule called “Data”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trying that gives me:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, indeedy, I want to see the results:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And that does </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> show me my new numbers:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIccsyra0c" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm so sure that you'd be good for me, If you'd only play my game</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s going on? When I created the database the load sheet worked. Why not now?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember those file objects? Could it be that there’s also a data file? Could be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If I go back to the web, select Sample.Basic (dynamic) and navigate to the Files button, I spy with my little eye a data file called Data_Basic.txt. Note that this a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">different</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> name than the Basic.txt file I downloaded via the database export a while back. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note also that it does not export as a zip file but instead as plain text.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It turns out that the file itself is a bit different in that it only has line feeds as an EOL, not line feeds and carriage returns. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Notepad sucks, but Notepad++ most definitely does not and shows me the file in columnar format:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I see it there in the Uploaded Files dialog box. All I need do is Upload it directly to the database folder:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And there it is:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlike in EAS, there is no right click on a database or navigate through a menu to load data. Instead, navigate to the Jobs button and then select New Job:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a data load. Why the load rules are called “Scripts” is a mystery to me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Execute it and it seems to have worked. Let’s check:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everything seems tickety-boo:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And there it is:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yummy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But that’s a drag. What happens if I want to go through Excel? We know that Load Data doesn’t work and that on initial create, data loads do happen. Can it be done again via Build Cube?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes it can. Why the dialog box says “Retain All Data” when in fact I’m trying to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">replace</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> data is Yet Another Essbase Cloud Mystery. ‘Cos it works:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0jNhFezP8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I guess I’d better get out the encyclopedia, And fresh up on from "shmer" to "shmoo"</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This was quite the journey, wasn’t it. I thought about breaking this up into multiple posts but if I did that I’d likely chicken out from showing you each and every step. I’m weird (and lazy) that way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What really have we uncovered?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m nuts for writing a 44 page post (in MS Word). I really should have split this up but oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are multiple ways to do things in EssCS such as extracting a metadata set. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cube Designer’s Cube Designer is a really cool concept but it has quite a long way to go before it’s ready to replace EAS’ dimension editor. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metadata extracts don’t work exactly the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Loading data </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">once</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on database creation works from Excel. After that, nope, because that process uploaded a data file to the database.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once in Essbase, downloading the text file that was created from the create database process, modifying it, uploading it, and then creating a job to load the data works.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> running the Build Cube process again and selecting “Retain all Data” while </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">changing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the data works.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are many, many, many Essbase Cloud Mysteries. Some if it’s ignorance on my part, some of it has got to be weirdness on the part of a 1.0 release.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The process of creating a database from an Excel metadata workbook uploads both load rules </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> dimension and data files.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seriously, there’s much to learn here and there are many quirks that have to get fixed and soon. Regardless, this is Essbase’s future. We just have to be a bit patient getting there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P.S. In order, </span><a href="https://www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/_templates/TCPA/mffoundation.aspx?aliaspath=%2fGreat-American-Songbook-Inititative%2fAbout-the-Great-American-Songbook&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">the Great American Songbook’s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, “</span><a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/peggylee/idontknowenoughaboutyou.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I Don’t Know Enough About You</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Hmbl., Fthl., & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has not suddenly changed sex and really and truly had one of life’s miracles bestowed upon him but instead something almost as great has happened: Essbase Cloud has launched. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And nine months isn’t really the date from conception to birth but instead is roughly the time from Kscope16 where Tim German and I first gave the first non-Oracle demo of the product to today’s GA launch. We (and a host of others*) have been diligently poking and prodding at the product. And now the happy day is here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I should note that Essbase Cloud is sort of the world’s worst kept secret: you’ve seen it at Kscope and OOW, I’ve blogged about it as have others, Oracle sales reps have been showing it to customers, and partners have had limited previews. So, a surprise it is not but regardless for the wider world, this is new stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And of course it’s now Generally Available aka you, oh Oracle customer or partner, can actually go out and buy this thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you want to learn more about OAC, check out the blog hop participant posts below! What is a blog hop? A blog hop is a group of bloggers who all get together to blog on a particular topic. We share each others blog posts in an attempt to share a lot of great information in one place. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<a href="https://womaninepm.com/2017/03/17/oac-series-finally-released" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Opal Alapat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, interRel Consulting</span></div>
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<a href="http://redpillanalytics.com/introducing-oracle-analytics-cloud/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Stewart Bryson</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, RedPill Analytics</span></div>
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<a href="http://integrationmadesimple.blogspot.com/2017/03/oac-metadata-management.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Dandeneau</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, interRel Consulting</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cubecoder.com/essbase-cloud-for-the-on-prem-crowd/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim German</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Qubix</span></div>
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<a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/03/head-in-essbase-cloud-no-1-blessed-event.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Cameron Lackpour</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, ARC EPM Consulting</span></div>
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<a href="http://bimobilelabs.com/post/158484477555/OACMobileOptions" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Milella</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Oracle</span></div>
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<a href="https://epmsxsw.com/2017/03/17/you-down-with-oac-yeah-you-know-me" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Summer Watson</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, interRel Consulting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Special thanks must go to Opal – she conceived, organized, and cajoled us all – although I don’t that that last bit was all that hard – into contributing to today’s Essbase Cloud very first birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The web gui screenshots are from the day (night really) before GA. That means that what you’ll see is what Essbase Cloud looked like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">before</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> GA. It’s going to change from the writing of this post or at least that’s what I’ve been told. Maybe. Maybe it already has. Maybe. Look for an additional post when (if) that happens and when (if) I get access to the real thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Think of this as my version of that Oracle Safe Harbor statement you see at the beginning of every one of their conference presentations. While I do my best to give you the latest and greatest information, it isn’t fair if you come to me with statements like, “It isn’t what I thought it would be” or “The details keep shifting” or “You know </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bugger%20all" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">bugger all</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> about Essbase Cloud”. The first two complaints should be directed at Oracle although the latter one is all mine. In any case, yelling never solved problems although Essbase databases can.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase Cloud (are you digging the new, slightly longer name? EssCS is so 2015. And 2016. And part of 2017. Well, at least that’s what I’ve seen it called till quite recently.) is part of a package called Oracle Analytic Cloud Service (OAC). It’s even there in the front screen:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OAC Standard = </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/data_visualization" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Data Visualizer Cloud Service (DVCS)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> + Essbase Standard</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In case you didn’t notice, Essbase Cloud is quite firmly part of the BI world. Yes, it’s still there in EPM but there is a difference in ownership and platform.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To use Essbase Cloud in addition to buying DVCS and BICS, for a full implementation you’re going to need: </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/database" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Database Cloud Service (DbaaS)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as well as </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/compute" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Compute Cloud Service (OCCS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) as well as </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/storage" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Storage Cloud Service (OSCS)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as well as </span><a href="https://cloud.oracle.com/database_backup" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Database Backup Service (ODBS)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I think I have all of those names right. This isn’t all that surprising as if you think about how an on-premises Essbase environment works, CPUs, disk storage, a relational database, and some kind (we hope) Essbase backup process are all part and parcel of an Essbase environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note that these tools are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Software as a Service (SaaS) tools like the </span><a href="https://www.oracle.com/applications/performance-management/solutions/enterprise-performance-mangement-cloud.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EPM cloud</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> suite but run the gamut from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS). PBCS, for example, is SaaS and as such is a neatly contained application. Essbase Cloud is more flexible but is a bit more complicated. Of course Essbase Cloud isn’t a single application as PBCS is but instead is just like your on-premises Essbase environment of many applications and databases.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase is part the Oracle Analytics Cloud Suite along with Data Visualization Cloud as well as Analytics Cloud. I simply don’t have the time to review what those products do because I have neither the time (I am writing this the night before the launch) nor the experience. There is no cure for the former except for maybe a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">TARDIS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. For the latter, I suggest you read the other blogs in this blog hop. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In many ways, not all that different from what I first showed world+dog at </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2015/10/oow-2015-day-1-its-here-its-here-its.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">2015’s OOW product launch</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or what Tim German and I presented at Kscope16.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are two paths: the cloud GUI (This is the cloud – did you expect something else?) and, intriguingly, Excel. Excel means SmartView and something more that I’m going to force you to wait on till later in the post (You jumped down find it, didn’t you. Perhaps the previous sentence was self-defeating or perhaps it was part of a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsXKS8Nyu8Q" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Cunning Plan</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Given the possibly-but-maybe-not changing UI, I’m going to take the 30,000 foot view (9,144 meters for those of you from countries that have not been to the moon) and list what I see as the high points. Look to the other blogs and (hopefully) many more posts from me as each function is examined in detail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Logging in gives us the (I daresay soon to be changed – maybe) home page. There’s nothing too surprising here – all of the things (and a bit more) are there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yup, it’s an outline editor, nope, it isn’t anything really like EAS.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are some </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">very</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> intriguing things here. Solve order in BSO? </span><a href="http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes Essbase geek, there is solve order in BSO.</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We can now break the dense/sparse/dimension type/TWOPASS paradigm. Huzzah!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the server level, this is usernames and cloud service (this is different than traditional Essbase) roles. EPMers, remember that there is no longer Shared Services. Rejoice or weep as is your wont.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s not yet possible (and maybe never – remember, this is all pre GA) to get to the OS. This is the next best thing and actually not half bad.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scenario management, e.g. I own a member set combination, I give you access to it, you submit data, I approve or disapprove it. It’s very Planning like. This example database doesn’t have it enabled but it’s just a button to turn it on. I’ll write more about this in another post.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These are the binaries you download to your desktop/server.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, this is a subject I’ll cover later but briefly:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SmartView – Need I elaborate?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Command Line Tool – This is sort of, kind of Essbase Cloud’s version of EPM’s epmautomate. Again, I’ll cover this in another post.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Predefined databases from Oracle. At some point (actually, it may be now), you’ll be able to upload your own Excel workbooks (that is how the databases are defined) to the Templates section. I think.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Documentation with a twist. I’d show you what this looks like but again, as of prerelease, there’s nothing to see but a 404 error.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus far, I’ve reviewed what’s in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pre GA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> release of Essbase Cloud’s web ui. If you attended Kscope16, you saw Tim and I demo a cruder but fundamentally the same product. What about Excel? This is where the developer effort has been spent over the last nine months.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cube Designer is a SmartView extension. Once downloaded (you will need to be connected via SmartView to an Essbase Cloud server to get this, at least as of the writing of this post), it appears as another ribbon in Excel. It’s here in Excel 2016 but I’ve used it in 2010 without issue, just like SmartView itself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, let’s take a lightning tour and then do a wee bit of a use case before I call it a night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Man oh man oh man I’m going to blow through here. Check out the other blogs in the blog hop or stay tuned to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Hmbl., Fthl., & Obt. Svt.’s</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> blog next week and quite a bit hereafter for more information.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The connections you make in ad hoc SmartView query sheets don’t apply here. To do Cube Designer actions, connect in through the ribbon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actually, I take that back. If you are connected to an Essbase Cloud instance through a valid SmartView query, logging in through Connections is not required. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you remember the Templates feature in the web UI, it’s roughly analogous to Gallery. I’m going to have to poke around a bit more to understand why they contain different content as logically they should be the same. Stay tuned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I find this to be oddly named. Would it be better to call it “File” or “Object” or something like that? It’s essentially Windows (no Mac OS as no Mac SmartView) file open and save as well as extracting an existing database to an Excel metadata (and data) workbook.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Open and Save I will leave for your fertile imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Briefly, instead of using the web ui, developers can create, manage, and deploy Essbase databases from within Excel. Modification of the Essbase database itself (dimensions, members, formulas, even data) can all be done offline. Shades of Arbor’s Application Manager for those who have been around for a while. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having said that, because it is Excel, it’s without rules, i.e. there is no syntax checker, no guarantee that you’ve built a dimension build file correctly, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once complete, a completion message box appears. This can take a while given the size of the database as metadata for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> dimensions, calcs, etc. are downloaded.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alas and alack, I don’t have time or space to dive into this but it’s a brilliant manifestation of all of those dialog boxes in EAS that we know and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">hate</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">love in Excel. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That gives us appname/dbname, dimensions, dimension type, outline order, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dimensions are parent/child views. This is both data </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a load rule all at the same time. Want to modify metadata with all sorts of functions, may I daresay Excel formulas (surely some kind of Essbase geek Holy Grail)? It’s all there and supported on the upload.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Load Rules support formulas as shown below. Formulas can be typed in by hand or via the Formula Editor. There is no check that forces a formula into a given cell or column – that’s up to you to get right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This pushes the database Excel workbook up to Essbase Cloud. I’m going to add BegBalance to Year because I am a long time Planning developer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I pop over to the View Jobs button and see the jobs that have been submitted through Cube Designer. Again, the web ui provides more information. I expect this function to improve in Cube Designer quite quickly or at least I fervently hope so.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Load tabular data to Essbase without load rules, dimension definitions (sort of as they’re in the column headers), etc. For the umpteenth time, more later, but not now. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve been hiding connection information all along for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">OPSEC</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> purposes. Here’s a redacted view of my connection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Putting aside the incompleteness of this review and the rush job (I only learnt of this blog hop on Wednesday which was a day ago), I think the promise and power of Cube Designer is evident.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it perfect? Nope. There are things like syntax checking, less wonky connections of Cube Designer’s Cube Designer (how can it be so hard?), and inconsistent to the web ui application extracts that I really wish Oracle had fixed before shipping.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However, I’ve also been wishing that Oracle would release Esbsase Cloud and they have. We have in our metaphorical hands a 1.0 release. Be patient (not the easiest thing in the world for me) and it will get better.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The product is in its early days. More people will kick the tires, more customers will buy it, inevitably more bugs will be found, more “Can it do X” enhancement requests will follow, more buzz about the tool at the various conferences and in blogs and in the Twittersphere will follow.</span></div>
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<br />Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-38744761664233982122017-03-16T01:01:00.000-04:002017-03-16T01:01:11.644-04:00Miami, Florida ODTUG BI-EPM Oracle Cloud Stack User Event<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-ca585d95-d57b-b48f-7c16-2cc88f7a8d9d" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Come this 13 April 2017, from noon to7 o’clock, a mere 29 days from the writing of this blog post (don’t get excited as this is written on Pacific time so it’s still 15 March), the </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executive-summit-choosing-oracle-products-that-fit-your-business-needs-tickets-31350872303?utm_campaign=new_attendee&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=event_name#listing-organizer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG EPM-BI Oracle Stack User event</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> will come, like a whirlwind of </span><a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Cloud</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, to the </span><a href="http://www.east-miami.com/en" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EAST Miami Hotel</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in, not all that surprisingly, Miami, Florida. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is more than a meetup. Super meetup? Superduper meetup? How about an Executive Summit? Yup, that sounds about right. Wait, no, it’s a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cloud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Executive Summit. Could it be any more </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/au-courant" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">au courant</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? I think not.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why oh why oh why would you attend? Simply because you want to understand why and how your peers (be they customer or consultant) live, work, and succeed in the Oracle Cloud. It’s also a great opportunity to meet said peers and make that personal connection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you attend? Merely click here: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executive-summit-choosing-oracle-products-that-fit-your-business-needs-tickets-31350872303?utm_campaign=new_attendee&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=event_name#listing-organizer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Miami ODTUG EPM-BI Oracle Stack User Event </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:00 PM - 2:40 PM </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughahn" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Doug Hahn</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, CTO at </span><a href="http://www.invesco.com/corporate" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Invesco</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How Do I Decide What Cloud is Best for Me?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:40 PM - 2:55 PM Break</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:00 PM - 3:40 PM </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipbernhardt32814" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Phil Bernhardt</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Finance Director of Strategic Planning at </span><a href="http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Scholastic Book Fairs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scholastic Book Fairs Transitions to Oracle PBCS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:40 PM - 4:20 PM </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Fthl., Hmbl., & Obt. Svt.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Oracle ACE Director, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Making the Administrative Transition: On Premises Planning to PBCS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4:35 PM - 5:15 PM </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-balusu-4a2b0215" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lakshmi Balusu</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, VP of Financial Systems at </span><a href="http://www.perryellis.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Perry Ellis</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Journey to HCM Cloud</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5:15 PM - 5:25 PM Closing Announcements: </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Volunteer Opportunities and ODTUG </span><a href="http://www.kscope17.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope17</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An event like this doesn’t happen by mere happenstance or without an awful lot of effort. Many enthusiastic, talented, and hardworking people came together to make this happen. Let’s give them their due:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholescott" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Nichole Scott</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="http://www.oracle.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/epmconsultant" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jessica Cordova</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="http://www.arcepm.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ARC EPM</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-coate-7a35491/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Nate Coate</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="http://www.keyperformanceideas.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Key Performance Ideas</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patti-kittiko-42859a19/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Patty Kittiko</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="http://skybridgeglobal.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SkyBridge Global</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannybooher/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Danny Boher</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="https://www.topdownconsulting.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">TopDown Consulting</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-cruttenden-28173b65/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jessica Cruttenden</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The what</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, what’s this all about? Nothing but the future of Oracle (and by extension, you) in the Cloud (and thus extension, you) from true customer executive to true consultant geek.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Good grief, I haven’t convinced you yet? No? Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You’re an Oracle customer (or maybe you’re thinking of becoming one)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You understand the Cloud is the future</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where else can you go to meet your peers (both of the executive and geek persuasion) and learn all about Oracle Cloud? </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gK2fOq4MY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">This must be the place</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’re in Southern Florida, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t attend. Seriously Gentle Reader, it behooves you to attend if you care about Oracle in the Cloud even a eensy-weensy bit,.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where do the elite Oracle Cloud geeks meet? Yup, that’s right: at the </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executive-summit-choosing-oracle-products-that-fit-your-business-needs-tickets-31350872303?utm_campaign=new_attendee&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=event_name#listing-organizer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Miami ODTUG EPM-BI Oracle Stack User Event</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, ‘natch. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s easy peasy, no big deasy. Simply go </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executive-summit-choosing-oracle-products-that-fit-your-business-needs-tickets-31350872303?utm_campaign=new_attendee&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=event_name" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/executive-summit-choosing-oracle-products-that-fit-your-business-needs-tickets-31350872303?utm_campaign=new_attendee&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=event_name" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">sign up</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It’s a mere $20 if you’re an Oracle customer, and a not-all-that-bad-considering-everything $125 if you’re a partner.</span></div>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-51889535234491332022017-02-28T20:54:00.001-05:002017-03-01T14:58:08.606-05:00The Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS No. 20 -- A lightweight and even better EPM cloud backup<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-51cf11d4-8791-ac3c-2c8f-0e014d44bced" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Fthl., Hmbl., & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has written how to back up </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">on-premises</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2012/02/lightweight-modular-and-better-essbase_5219.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lightweight-modular-and-even-better.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EPM</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> systems. But what about the cloud? There is no MaxL to be found in PBCS or nor is there really any LCM utility. Yes, Application Management does that in the cloud via the UI and yes, there is a single generation nightly backup via the maintenance window, but what about beyond then? What if you want backups to go to your data center? Or have multiple backups in the cloud itself?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Rothermel has again come to the rescue with an approach that is – like just about everything in the cloud – better than what’s on offer in on-premises. Yes, it’s sad that advance after advance seems to pass on-premises by but we must all adapt or perish as must Oracle. Although I have not one single bit of proof, I think (I hope) that when the Big Release comes to on-premises EPM some time before </span><a href="http://www.kscope17.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kscope17</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> it will bring </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">some</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the automation advances the EPM cloud has today. Watch this space to see how right or wrong I am on that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Edited to add that alas, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, probably </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c00000; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> based on a conversation from yesterday.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bummer but let’s hope my source is wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As for this backup itself, it’s better or even best because its foundation is both simple and sophisticated. What I mean by that is that Chris’ approach uses PBCS’ (EPBCS applies equally as does I think every other Oracle EPM cloud product) own Application Management functionality (for Luddite on-premises, think LCM) tools to define and create the backup and PBCS’ single utility, epmautomate, to do the EPM work (again, hidebound on-premises types, think the LCM utility as well as OS script commands to pull files onto an on-premises target). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I really, really, really like Chris’ approach – better maybe than my own – and encourage you to take a good hard look at it and think about, if you’re an on-premises customer, how to meld it with my approach or </span><a href="http://essbasedownunder.com/2015/04/lcm-backups-for-fun-and-profit/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter Nitchke’s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky%27s_the_Limit_(1943_film)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">The sky’s the limit</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Enough of my blather, enjoy his excellent work below and again Chris, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The current cloud solution backs up your application nightly. It archives everything created for the application including the data stored in the application into an LCM file called “Artifact Snapshot” and you get to set what time of day this job runs. I happened to delete this “Artifact Snapshot” file one day and it re-appeared the next day. From this I’ve determined that “Artifact Snapshot” is defined and controlled by Oracle when running the daily maintenance. Every day at the same set time this job runs and creates a complete snapshot of your application. The complete backup of your application is stored in a file called “Artifact Snapshot.” There is only one file called “Artifact Snapshot” and there is only one recent copy of this file stored in the cloud. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if you want the Snapshot as of right </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">now</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> instead of getting what was run at the scheduled daily maintenance time?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This solution is easily modified for your environment. Provide the appropriate epmautomate login credentials for URL, USER, PASSWORD, and DOMAIN. These must be valid parameters that you’d use when using epmautomate login. Similarly the SnapshotName must be a snapshot that can be found in PBCS. For simplicity we’ll leave ‘Artifact Snapshot’ in place because that is the default snapshot used by the maintenance window and all cloud instances have this snapshot name. The other variables for appname and env are ideally the name of your application and environment but you can name them whatever you like. They are used in the script to help identify the backup files. Finally the NumberOfBackups variable is a number which identifies how many backups for your application you wish to retain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Run the configured script with an additional parameter to invoke the epmautomate exportsnapshot command. The newly generated file is then downloaded, renamed, and uploaded back to the cloud. The file uploaded back to the cloud has the extra parameter it was called with to differentiate it from a timed backup. The timestamp reflected on this backup represents the time of the snapshot, not just the time the snapshot was downloaded. In the example below I use the german word “jetzt” meaning now (at the present) to know that the timestamp of this file matches when the file was generated and not just when the file was downloaded. Running the script with the extra parameter runs the extra EPMAutomate export command followed by the downloadfile command. The word ‘jetzt’ was just used as an example. You can use any word you like and know it will be appended to the zip filename.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> How can I enforce the number of copies retained and avoid storing a bunch of obsolete files?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> For files downloaded renamed and stored on the Windows server this is very easy. Cleaning up files stored in the cloud this is much trickier for several reasons. The cloud does not have a rename feature, the cloud listfiles command does not show the date timestamp, and finally LCM files (zip files) are handled differently in the cloud and effectively disappear from view. Other zip files will show just fine using the listfiles command but LCM files are not shown. Since epmautomate listfiles command does not show you the list of LCM zip files we have to maintain a list separately. For this reason a separate list of LCM files is kept to record what known LCM files are in the cloud. The parameter NumberOfBackups is used to check this list of LCM files on the cloud. If the number of files exceeds the threshold the oldest file(s) are deleted so only the desired number of most recent backups is kept.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> What if I want to retain copies for a Snapshot other than “Artifact Snapshot”?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create that snapshot definition in the Migration section of the cloud. Then update your batch file accordingly. If for example I created a LCM export called “Rothermel Special” in the cloud and then I can update batch file with this new snapshot name. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create separate batch files for each and just update the necessary parameters. I recommend putting each application in its own folder to avoid a potential for mixing files. Since the default snapshot which is downloaded is called “Application Snapshot” and it creates “Application Snapshot.zip” in your directory you could run into trouble with two parallel executions. So either ensure the batch files are run in serial or put them in separate directories and invoke them in separate session windows. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> See the </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/scheduling_the_script.htm#CEPMA-pbcs_epm_control_utility_50" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Automating Script Execution</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> section of the </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/toc.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">EPM Automate Utility documentation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> My first solution for this backup process only stored the timestamp copies on the local machine. The limitation of that is you had to have access to the machine to find the backups. We realized it would be better to store the backup on the Cloud. Since the epmautomate commands do not have the copy or rename capability this solution forces us to download the file from the cloud rename it locally and then upload the named file. There’s no extra work in keeping the archive files on both the local machine and the cloud. To enforce the number of backups limit we run a single command to delete excess files on the local machine. I realize keeping files on both the local machine and the cloud is a bit like wearing both a belt and suspenders. Either one will keep your pants up. This solution is storing the files in both locations and you can modify it to only keep the files in the cloud or just keep the files on the local machine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The solution calls for additional scripts which are provided and also uses a Microsoft operating commands. Once the behavior of these scripts or commands are understood on their own you can better understand how they are used in the larger solution. The complete list of scripts called by the solution is provided. Links referencing the documentation on native Microsoft OS commands are also provided below.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.winnetmag.com/windowsscripting/article/articleid/9177/windowsscripting_9177.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">timestamp.bat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – A DOS script that stores timestamp data to variables</span></div>
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<a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/01/delete-multiple-files-with-epm-automate.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ea_deletefiles.bat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – A DOS script that recursively calls epmautomate for a list of files</span></div>
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<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130116/windows-batch-commands-to-read-first-line-from-text-file" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">head.bat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – A DOS script that acts like the Unix/Linux command with the same name used to show the first X number of non-blank records in a file</span></div>
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491004.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">sort</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – A native DOS command used to sort the contents of a file in either ascending or descending order (aka reverse order </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/r</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></div>
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490933.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">more</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> – A native DOS command that can be used like the Unix tail function to when supplied with a number (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/redirection.mspx?mfr=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">command redirection operators</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (>) and (>>) to either create/overwrite (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) or append to a file (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">>></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> set dow=%%i</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> )</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Let's see the result.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">echo %dow% %yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%:%min%:%ss%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM We'll use these %variables% in other scripts for timestamp purposes</span></div>
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<a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/01/delete-multiple-files-with-epm-automate.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ea_deletefiles.bat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@echo off</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Author: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Rothermel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Purpose: This script recursively calls the deletefile command for each</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM record in the file provided. There are other checks on the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM whitespace. The record delimiter is a new row (<CR> <LF>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Check if the file exists</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Check if the file is empty</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for %%A in ("%1") do if %%~zA==0 goto EmptyFile</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Recursively call deletefile for each record in the file</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call echo Deleting "%%a%%"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:EmptyFile</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:Usage</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Usage: %~n0 FILENAME</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exit /b %errorlevel%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:InvalidFile</span></div>
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<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130116/windows-batch-commands-to-read-first-line-from-text-file" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">head.bat</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@echo off</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call :print_head %1 %2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Prints the first non-blank %1 lines in the file %2.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:print_head</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set /a counter=0</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">goto :eof</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:usage</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">echo Usage: head.bat COUNT FILENAME</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cloud_Backup_App_Env.bat</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@echo off</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM This process keeps a local file identifying the existing snapshots.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM -> maximus_prd_Artifact Snapshot_Fri 2017-01-06 @ 1016.zip</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM -> maximus_prd_Artifact Snapshot_Fri 2017-01-06 @ 1016 <name>.zip</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Repeats a previously performed export operation to create a snapshot of Migration</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Generating snapshot: %SnapshotName% %1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call epmautomate exportsnapshot "%SnapshotName%"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Download the newly generated file</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call epmautomate downloadfile "%SnapshotName%"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Rename the downloaded artifact and append the timestamp to identify this as a NEW snapshot</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">echo .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Renaming "%SnapshotName%.zip" to "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rename "%SnapshotName%.zip" "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Uploading the renamed file to the cloud</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">echo Uploading "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call epmautomate uploadfile "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Sete the filename of this newly uploaded file to a variable for later use</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Exclude the ".zip" extension for downloading and deleting these special EPM files.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO SETTING tmp_filename to %appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set tmp_filename=%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow% %1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">goto :KeepOnly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:GetExisting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Getting existing snapshot: %SnapshotName%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM This code block gets the existing SnapshotName and appends the timestamp.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM The actual date the snapshot was taken could be different than the current date. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call epmautomate downloadfile "%SnapshotName%"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Rename the downloaded artifact</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Renaming "%SnapshotName%.zip" to "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow%.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rename "%SnapshotName%.zip" "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow%.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Uploading the renamed file to the cloud</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">echo Uploading "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow%.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">call epmautomate uploadfile "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow%.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Set the filename of this newly uploaded file to a variable for later use</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set tmp_filename=%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_%yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%%min% %dow%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:KeepOnly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - Trim trailing white space</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for /l %%a in (1,1,99) do if "!tmp_filename:~-1!"==" " set tmp_filename=!tmp_filename:~0,-1!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Get the file that has the list of known snapshots for %appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Downloading the known list of snapshots "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL epmautomate downloadfile "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - Add the new Snapshot filename to a managed list of files. The file list must have each record on a separate row </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM and no quotes may be used.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Adding "%tmp_filename%" to "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO %tmp_filename%>>"%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - 1. Sort the list of files assuming the alphanumeric list of files is the same as the chronological list of files.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - It is very important for the date format to be in YYYY-MM-DD HHMM. We do not know for certain if the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - lisfiles command lists the files by system date.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM - 2. Create a list of records exceeding %NumberOfBackups%</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM call sort "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%.txt" /O "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_srt.txt" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM This command does both</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Sorting "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt" and placing records in excess of %NumberOfBackups% into "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.del.tmp"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL sort /R "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt" | more +%NumberOfBackups% > "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.del.tmp"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Delete any excess files by sending the .del.tmp files to ea_deletefiles.bat script for processing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Calling ea_deletefiles "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.del.tmp"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Keeping only the most recent %NumberOfBackups% versions on the local machine</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for /f "skip=%NumberOfBackups% eol=: delims=" %%F in ('dir /b /o-d /a-d "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%*.*"') do @del "%%F"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Sort "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt" from newest to oldest because we'll only keep the top newer files</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL sort /r "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt" > "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.tmp" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Keep only %NumberOfBackups% records in the file. Use a separate batch script called head to do this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL head %NumberOfBackups% "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.tmp" > "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO Uploading the updated list known list of snapshots "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL epmautomate deletefile "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL epmautomate uploadfile "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%_filelist.txt"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Optionally Clean up excess files such as "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%*.zip" and "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%*.tmp"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Delete the deletefile.log files</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #76923c; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM del "%appname%_%env%_%SnapshotName%*.zip"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:logout</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ECHO .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto :ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:EOF</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:ERROR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not enough? Just what do you want out of life, anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You now have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">four</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> different approaches to EPM backup. Three are on-premises: </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2012/02/lightweight-modular-and-better-essbase_5219.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://essbasedownunder.com/2015/04/lcm-backups-for-fun-and-profit/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Pete’s LCM way</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lightweight-modular-and-even-better.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">my LCM way</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This one is cloud-only and is thus doubly (cloud so ‘natch awesome and the code is awesome too) awesome. Awesomeness aside, I think this subject has been covered more than adequately. OTOH, I thought that about five years ago as well so only time will tell if it’s revisited. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris, again, thank you so much for your work with the EPM community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-68644074300423129312017-02-16T17:11:00.000-05:002017-02-16T18:09:09.180-05:00A lightweight, modular, and even better EPM on-premises backup<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c01a0ad1-48f6-4cd1-9c74-5409b1ca8209" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIYvcUkiFuI" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Time waits for no one</span></a></h1>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vhjZ6J3kvw&feature=youtu.be&t=18" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Time and tide waits for no man</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A while ago, like five years ago, I wrote about a </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2012/02/lightweight-modular-and-better-essbase_5219.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">lightweight, modular, and better Essbase backup</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Funny, it doesn’t seem all that long ago and yet time passes swiftly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That code works (and in fact I just put it in at a client) but it only covers the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> side of things. As reluctant (Actually not as paying bills, funding retirement, and having some money left over for fun things all come from mostly Planning and doing assessments so alas not nearly as much Essbase as I’d like.) as I am to admit this, there is more to on-premises life than Essbase. How then, does the rest of the world get backed up? The answer is LCM.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More than just on-premises</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While this post is going to only cover on-premises, there will be a second post on how to do this in PBCS/EPBCS. Chris Rothermel contributed (again – the guy is generous) to that one (Yes, I have it, yes he gave it to me weeks ago, no I haven’t finished my part of it, yes I suck.) and while it is conceptually the same it has a few twists. </span><a href="https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/god-willing-and-the-creek-dont-rise/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">God willing and the Creek don’t rise</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I’ll have it out next week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A note about length</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Er ma gawd this post is long – 38 pages in MS Word – and hence you might think that this process belies its title. The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">actual</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> code to perform this backup process is 41 lines of code including blank lines and comments. Take that out and you’re down to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> lines of script code. That’s right: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>11</b></span>. Is that lightweight enough for you? I certainly hope so. The unfortunate post length revolves around the one-time setup. There are a few fair steps to do that but never fear, Gentle Reader, I lay it all out step by step as simply as I can.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The concept</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As with my post from as near as can be five years ago, the gimmick in this backup process is to:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Limit the number of on disk backups to 7 (one for each day of the week, natch)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the number of the day of the week, e.g. 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, 3=Tuesday, etc. as that day’s rolling backup target</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use seven scheduled processes, one for each day of the week</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parameterize everything everywhere so it’s one snippet of code for all seven days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The only real differences in this post vs. the Essbase-only post is that:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The backup can include </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">each and every</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> object for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">each and every</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> product in your LCM universe. Want to backup HFM? FDMEE? Financial Reports? The world is your oyster.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The backup definition is defined through Shared Services once and only once. Modifications to the process require modifying the LCM xmls (export and import).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Restoring objects requires working through the LCM utility or via a manual import to Shared Services.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The backup needs to run on the Shared Services server or wherever you can get the LCM backup utility to run. I’ve never seen that anywhere other on the Shared Services server but I don’t get out much.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BSO Essbase restructuring does </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> take place; you’ll have to figure out another way to handle this. It would be easy to modify my old post to solely do restructures or you could simply run them on an ad-hoc basis. For performance, I suggest that you run it every day, particularly within the context of a Planning application.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That looks like a lot of differences but you’ll see as we dive into the code that it’s really quite similar and in some instances easier and more flexible than an Essbase-only backup.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One more time through the folder/day of the week relationship. Yes, Gentle Reader, you’re familiar with the days of the week and the number of each day of the week. I include this just in case you get a bit wobbly on the relationship of one with the other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy peasy no big deasy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wait, you say. Do you? Hopefully, else you aren’t paying attention. Wait, why is a manually driven Shared Services export required? Actually, the export itself is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> needed but what is needed is the LCM export and import xml migration definition files. This is a one time task. The </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E57185_01/EPMLU/ch07s04s04.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">layout is documented</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but I think it’s far easier to do this manually. Remember, except for export.xml and import.xml the results are disposable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For this example I created an export of ASOSamp.Sample, Sample.Basic, and the </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-compleat-idiots-guide-to-pbcs-no-5_24.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Vision Planning application I migrated </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">from</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> PBCS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">to</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> on-premises</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I boldface the latter because some people think it’s a Plain Jane migration to the cloud. Nope, as ever your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Most Hmbl. & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has gone against the grain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t believe </span><a href="http://www.jasonwjones.com/2016/09/tbc-files-bankruptcy/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jason Jones’ comment about TBC going tits up</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It is alive and well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note that for this database I am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> exporting data. It is being excluded for demonstration purposes. Also, if you do keep the </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2012/02/lightweight-modular-and-better-essbase_5219.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase export process</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> it’s redundant. You’re going to have to think about whether you want all Essbase restores to go through Shared Services or if you prefer to do simple restores of Essbase file objects. Also, I’d note that the exports in Shared Services are single threaded whereas Essbase’s MaxL command can and should be multithreaded. Lastly, as previously noted Shared Services exports do not support restructures. Choose wisely.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or simply go to the Shared Services import_export folder. Your choice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow, nine pages of instructions to get to the two files needed for this backup. Ugh. There’s worse (or better) to come.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – I named the target folder (and the the name of the backup to be restored in Shared Services if required) as LCM_FPCMPSSSFR to stand for FP = Financial Planning, CM = Calculation Manager, PS = Product Sales, SS = Shared Services, FR = Financial Reports. Name this folder however you like; it will need to be modified in the LCMBackup.cmd file.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ll be promted to update the file at the end of the backup process. Don’t as that will erase the updated username/password. Btw, the fact that the tool does this is insanity but there it is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – Import.xml won’t be required for interactive import of objects via Shared Services but is required if you are a daring sort of chap and want to run the import from the command line.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here it is in the backup folder with each technology type (Calculation Manager) or database/app (Essbase & Planning) folder all </span><a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/28000.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">present and correct</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note that data is exported to the root Sample database folder. This is interesting in light of the fact that the exported data is not in the tablespace folders.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ol-Charlie-Brown-Peanuts/dp/1782761586" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Good ol’ Sample.Basic</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is with us, this time with calc scripts on offer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you bored yet with the seemingly regularity and comprehensiveness of the export? Hopefully so else this process isn’t fit for purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note that Planning data location differs from Essbase. Of course Planning != Essbase so it’s not surprising that data exports are in a different location.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, no error handling. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhFQXLTY_TY&feature=youtu.be&t=19" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">So sue me</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This is a blog, not the tool I’m putting in at your site. Also, this stripped down code sample keeps everything easy to see.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Purpose:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily LCM processing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Written by:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cameron Lackpour</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Notes:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Run the LCM backup for the current day</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">--</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The encrypted username and password must exist in a copy of Export.xml</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SET Gen=%1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SET Drive=%2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">del %Drive%\automation\lcmbackup\%Gen% /F /S /Q</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rd /S /Q %Drive%\automation\lcmbackup\%Gen%\LCM_FPCMPSSSFR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">md %Drive%\automation\lcmbackup\%Gen%\LCM_FPCMPSSSFR </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note the switches for </span><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771049(v=ws.11).aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">del</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490990.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It’s import to get rid of the files in the subfolders first before removing said subfolders. Ain’t DOS grand? This is necessary to make sure that deleted objects, e.g. calc script that was directly removed from Sample.Basic doesn’t persist. I like to remove the folders as well just in case the export.xml files are modified.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, easy peasy no big deasey. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The syntax is: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> lcmbackup.cmd </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">generation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">drivename</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s all a bit difficult to follow as there are many objects to get deleted. Happily there’s a log file that captures everything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t tell me </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, tell me </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This is what I consider to be the bare minimum header. Also, for the love of Mike, when you inevitably modify this code, please, please, please put your name alongside the modify date. I’ve had people ask me, “Did you really do X?”. Maybe but who can tell. I like to take the blame when I deserve it but only then.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set parameters and get rid of all of the files below all of the subfolders. Note again the high level of comments. Some people live in “DOS” and so this is all well known. I know the functions are there but I’ll be damned if I can recall them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember that nonsense about the passwords? Here’s where that oh-so-annoying deletion is overlaid. Stupid but there it is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s all well and good, but what about that relationship between days of the week and their ordinal order? Remember that parameterization that drive the generation number? This is where it comes into play.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What I’m going to show is Windows but this could just as easily done in Linux’s chron.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s my Windows 2008 server (soon to be 2012 but only for the next VM install) Task Scheduler. Huh, I seem to have Flash installed on a server OS. Gee thanks, Calculation Manager, for making me have one of the most hacked products ever on my server. Get rid of that abomination Oracle EPM team. Please.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihS8wYnQeo&list=PLwXQJJQL0FMDHjUpUiflUghUCCu74rD2k" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven days for seven backups</span></a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rant aside, to make this code a rolling create seven backup tasks tied to each day of the week with that parameterized backup code and that magical seven day rolling backup is good to go.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a new process</span></h5>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You’ll be logged off so provide a password</span></h5>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There we go</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s not do that manually six more times and instead export to xml, modify, and import right back in. Believe you me, it’s less tedious this way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if you want to expand the scope of the export? You could go through the process in Shared Services if you like or could simply perform a copy and paste. In this case I’m going to show how to also backup Demo.Basic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paste and modify to reference Demo.Basic. Don’t forget to point to the right filePath.</span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lather,_rinse,_repeat" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lather, rinse, repeat</span></a></h5>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ta da, seven days of bliss after you’ve imported each xml definition. This does seem to be the blog post all about </span><a href="http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/xml/xmlnut/ch01_04.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">XML</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but it is such a good idea and oh so useful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This backup process is like life insurance: you hope you’ll never need to use it. Of course that term life policy has the note of finality where this does not. No matter, the analogy sort of holds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, we’re at 35 pages and 2,500 words. Let’s let the pictures tell the story of restoring Saturday’s backup. What’s that you say? No one in your firm works on Saturday? </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsq0TcEMmk4&index=9&list=PLvV50vO_Tq9RhRA0DC66IXIApskUiJFC5" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">You’re in luck</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I suppose I don’t need to show you how to copy and paste but in the spirit of completeness…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paste within the import_export folder</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, you could upload this as well through Shared Services. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There it is.</span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%26R_(military)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">R&R</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yep, it’s time to </span><a href="http://shulinkou.tripod.com/dawg10a.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">relax</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It’s done. Follow these lightweight, modular, and better EPM on-premises backup and never worry about backups ever again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One other note – your IT department is of course backing up all file objects so when you need to walk things back a month or three it’ll be a moderately simple task to restore that business rule of rare genius. Right? Right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-22539757618270532562017-02-10T17:09:00.003-05:002017-02-10T17:09:59.842-05:00Stupid Programming Tips No. 31 -- Installing just Excel 2016 and nothing else<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f7a321ba-2a09-e2e7-c738-d83ea2d9ed71" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Excel, just Excel, and nothing else</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although I’ve known Oracle EPM (and Hyperion and before that Arbor all the way back to Comshare) for far longer than I care to think about, my installation skills have not improved with time or practice. I am not a fan of installing Hyperion client software on my PC. Actually, I’m not a fan of installing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">any</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> kind of infrastructure as many if not all of you know. I am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">especially</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> not a fan of installing Hyperion client software aka </span><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/smart-view-for-office/overview/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Smart View</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E57185_01/ESBTR/maxl_chap.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MaxL</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/using_epmctl.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">epmautomate</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or anything else that has the words “Oracle EPM” as a prefix. Why is that, Cameron? </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">No sir, I don’t like it</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t like installing (I really don’t like installing server software, cf. my appreciation of the Cloud) software of any kind unless I absolutely must because of </span><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2515936/enterprise-applications/clean-the-crud-from-your-pc.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">crud</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I have many other things to do with my life such as work, write this blog and other gloriously unpaid community activities, and try to have some form of a life. Given that I often only get two out of the three at the same time, taking on another “hobby” that consists of diagnosing why my super-duper laptop no long works as it did before is not high on my list of things to do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows crud isn’t the only downside to installing a given EPM client suite and then uninstalling it when the next upgrade comes along and then installing that next release and then it doesn’t work and then reverting back to the original release and then maybe in despair uninstalling that again and then installing the latest release </span><a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/ad-infinitum" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ad infinitum</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. As the preceding run on sentence suggests, moving across releases can be tricky. Painful. Frustrating. Gawdawful. You get the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember, your PC (laptop nowadays but desktop too) is where you earn your crust. If it’s </span><a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hors_de_combat" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">hors de combat</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> because you buggered up an install you will spend a painful and inordinate amount of time trying to fix it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you test new releases of Windows and Office and Oracle EPM? Your IT department (or, if you’re a consultant at a boutique consulting company then most likely you, Gentle Consultant Reader) in theory does this testing but they do it on their own time and don’t really understand all of the nuances involved. Do they give you multiple laptops so you can do the testing without interruption to your other work? No? If they do dispense that kind of largesse, they undoubtedly do so in other ways and if so would you please contact me ‘cos I want to work at a company with those kinds of deep pockets. Alas for all of us, that probably isn’t the case and you’re back at the infinite loop of install/test/uninstall/install/test/uninstall. Ugh.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a way around all of that: virtualization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m a fan of virtualization. No, not virtual reality (</span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FFS" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">FFS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, if you have to retreat to that, perhaps you ought to work on improving the real world?), but computer virtualization. Big deal you say (you do say that, don’t you?), virtualization of servers is old hat. Even Oracle have reluctantly relented in the face of customers virtualizing their entire EPM environment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No, what I’m talking about is virtualizing your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">client</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Merely an environment that you completely control. Want to run Windows 7 (my personal preference on many levels – I think it is as perfect of an OS as Windows can be) on your Win 10 laptop? Or the other way round? Or do all of this on your Mac? Or both Windows 7 and 10? 11.1.2.3.500 and 11.1.2.4 and PBCS? 32-bit vs. 64 bit Office? Office 2010 or 2013 or 2016? And separate multiple client VPN environments (this last one is aimed at consultants)? All at the same time? All you need is a virtualization tool, legitimate licenses, and enough hardware to run it on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am a huge, huge, huge fan of </span><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VMWorkstation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It’s fast, simple to configure (and we all know that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Most Hmbl. & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> needs all the help he can get in that regard), and relatively inexpensive @ $250. Setting up a VM is a doddle and cloning and copying the VMs are simple tasks. There’s also the option of giving away VMs (I am putting aside licensing issues but doing things the right way isn’t impossible) and running them on </span><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/player/playerpro-evaluation.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VM Player</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or even </span><a href="https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002320" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">converting a VMWorkstation image to VMWare Fusion</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are a true blue Oracle user, there is also the </span><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31717/what-do-the-phrases-free-speech-vs.-free-beer-really-mean/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">free</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as in beer </span><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">VirtualBox</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Free is good. I started with VMWorkstation back in the days of Hyperion Software and just haven’t been bothered to switch. I have however used VirtualBox alongside VMWorkstation without issue. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I wanted to run Office 2016 on Windows 10. I have avoided Win 10 as long as I possibly could but as I’m seeing it at more and more of my clients and also because I want to – sort of – keep up to date with my fellow geeks so I have to at least take a look at it. A VM is a marvelous place to do this – I can walk the VM back if I blow things up – I will – and to experiment with setting up my Office 2016 install. When I did this the first time round I think I had to redo it five times. Ugh . </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve run Office 2016 on a Windows 7 VM but I was annoyed that I ended up with the rest of Office on that VM. I want to keep the actual VM size as small as possible (I have two SSDs on my laptop but even at 1 ½ terabytes space is not unlimited and server OS VMs can take a lot of room). Also, I am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> going to run OneNote, don’t need a copy of Outlook on a VM (and besides, I use </span><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Thunderbird</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on my real box), and in general just want what I want as I’ve been able to do with older releases of Office. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keeping in mind my lack of interest in infrastructure even at a client OS level, I needed to find a version of Windows 10 that does not update itself seemingly every other week. Seriously, I don’t have time for that and all of the features that Windows 10 has like Cortana, Edge, the Store, etc. don’t do anything for me. What to do? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – I understand that there are advantages to doing things Microsoft’s way but it simply isn’t for me which, if you think about it, is sort of the unifying theme of this blog post. I am a bit </span><a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bolshy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">bolshie</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows Long Term Servicing Branch is akin to the measured upgrades that the Windows world saw before Windows 10. Longing for the good old days? Here are two </span><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">good</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://windowsitpro.com/windows-10/understanding-long-term-servicing-branch-and-current-branch-windows-10" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">explanations</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of what it means. Windows LTSB is part of Windows Enterprise so you’re not going to be able to buy this at your local office supply store. As I noted before, it’s not that difficult to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">legitimately</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> get a license for this. I am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> encouraging you to go to some dodgy website and download a key. Beyond the moral and legal ramifications of that, consider that you have likely just infected your computer with a who-knows-what virus, trojan, etc., etc., etc. You Have Been Warned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – You do </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> have to use Windows LTSB to do what I’m about to show. That’s what I used and hence I’ve explained the not terribly common release to remove as much confusion as possible ‘cos when I explain things I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">add</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> confusion. You’re welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking of confusion, as with Windows 10, Office 2016 comes in a </span><a href="https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Compare-Office-suites/categoryID.68155000" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">bewildering variety of versions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. If you include Macintosh there are nine different releases of the product although there is overlap in their title organization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I daresay you will not be surprised when I tell you that I don’t have any of those releases but instead Office Professional Plus Volume License. Fear not, Gentle Reader, as I believe what I am going to show you now applies to everything but the </span><a href="https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.69404500" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Macintosh</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (and you’re alas not running Smart View there) and </span><a href="https://products.office.com/en-US/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Office Online</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlike older versions of Office (per my comments above about changing as little as possible on my “real” laptop I am quite happily running Office 2010), Office 2016 does not have an MSI installer and instead has an </span><a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Can-I-do-a-custom-install-of-individual-Office-suite-applications-1EEDE13D-3426-40CC-B30B-9AA40226BB9E" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">all-or-nothing Click-To-Run (C2R) installer</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The problem with C2R is that it does </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> allow a single application install out of the entire Office suite. That’s right, it’s all or nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having said that, there are advantages to C2R, namely monthly updates to not just patches but </span><a href="http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/definition/Microsoft-Click-To-Run" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">core functionality</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as well as a way to </span><a href="http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/definition/Microsoft-Click-To-Run" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">install Office from the web or a network location</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. To me this sounds like a enthusiast’s dream and an Oracle EPM geek’s worst nightmare.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t have this version (again because of my recalcitrant and stubborn personality) but the technique I am to illustrate is actually based on Office365.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeBAo-08c0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">All or nothing at all</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This blog has the word “hacker” in it. I think for IT staff that install Office as a matter of course the below is old hat. For those of us who aren’t in that category, this is a hack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No, this probably doesn’t look like your Windows 10 install. But it’s awfully close.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Btw, in addition to Windows 10 LTSB, I am also using </span><a href="http://www.classicshell.net/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ClassicShell</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I cannot recommend it highly enough and use it on both this install and on Window Server 2012. I’m not sure what genius at Microsoft thought a tablet interface was a good fit for a server OS but “genius” is not the word that comes to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That rant completed, here’s my very pre-Windows 7 style Start Menu. Note that there is no install of Office.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a snapshot</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I had a bad feeling about this working the first time so before I went </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wide%20open%20throttle" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WOT</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on the install I thought I would take a VMWorkstation snapshot. Good thing I did.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Surely an option will pop up allowing me to pick just Excel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although, “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Want-Doesnt-Get-Rony-Robinson/dp/0571169406" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I want, doesn’t get</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”, it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> possible to </span><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn745895.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">install just what is needed in Office</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with a modest amount of pain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a nutshell, you can use an XML configuration file along with a special install setup.exe to exclude unwanted components. It works but as noted is painful to suss out, a sentiment you may share as you’re now on page nine of this guide.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Office 2016 Deployment Tool</span></a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NB – This works for Office 2013 as well but requires a different version.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Download the tool as per the above section link and then launch officedeploymenttool_7614-3602.exe. On doing so you’ll see setup.exe (this is the replacement for the default Office 2016 setup.exe as well as the file configuration.xml.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Per the file comments, the above configuration file is for downloading and installing Office 365 Pro Plus (retail) as well as Visio Pro (retail). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However, what I want to do is: exclude everything but Excel and do it for it for the non-365 version of Office.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although the XML isn’t hard to read, it is difficult to know what tags to use. Microsoft very nicely provide a tool to create that file. It’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">almost</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> perfect but then what in this life is? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Office 365 ProPlus Configuration XML Editor</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go to the </span><a href="https://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">web page</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and pick your options.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exclude the tools you don’t want.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click on Save to write the XML in the righthand pane and then export to disk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ta da, here’s the configuration file, </span><a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100502429" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">shipshape and Bristol fashion</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Almost.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately the tool doesn’t support the version of Office that I have; it likely does for your version. Just in case, here’s the list of supported Product IDs:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ProfessionalRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HomeStudentRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O365ProPlusRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O365HomePremRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O365BusinessRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O365SmallBusPremRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VisioProRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ProjectProRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SPDRetail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In my case I ended up using ProPlusRetail on my first go round. That was a guess on my part although I suppose a lucky one as it was a one in nine chance on getting it right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In any case, here’s what my configuration.xml file looks like once the Product ID is manually modified:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hard work is done. Now it’s just a question of running the configuration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I noted above, I extracted the install media to a local folder – this could easily be a network share. The key thing to remember is that you’ll need to replace the default setup.exe with the one that will allow customization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Copied across the new setup.exe as well as configuration.xml files:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> acknowledgement that Excel is being installed on its own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And when I launch Excel</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here it is. And with Smart View too! Just kidding; I installed that afterwards:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’re done, finally done</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There we are, after just a short 20 pages in Word. If you think it took a long time to read to the bottom consider that I spent over a day figuring this out and then another half day writing it up. Some would just </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=embrace%20the%20suck" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">embrace the suck</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and install the whole shooting match. Stubbornness manifested as tenacity can sometimes be a positive thing. I’ll never get the time back but now I have exactly what I want. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes it’s worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More than one way to deploy Office 2016</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I encourage you to read the links I’ve provided and search on your own. There are all kinds of cool(ish) things you can do with the tool. It’s probably outside the purview of EPM geeks but interesting(ish) to read about. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do I now have a VM that I can clone (VMWorkstation does an excellent job of that: creating both fully-independent images as well as linked ones that take less room – I created the VM for this post as a linked one that I will now blow away) for each and every client keeping work, files, versions, etc. separate? </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/355221489340646086/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Yup</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t be put off by the length of what I wrote. Once I figured this out the whole process from beginning to end took about 45 minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-47607156541973539742017-02-07T10:23:00.001-05:002017-02-07T12:51:07.588-05:00Smart View Survey Results<h1 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e462a5b2-192a-e122-f326-1624b1bf437e" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If someone asks you to, “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Name an animal with three letters in its name.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">” you must answer, “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Frog</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”. Or “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY&feature=youtu.be&t=100" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Alligator</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alas, in my laziness I could not find a good clip of Richard Dawson (surely at his best as The Scrounger in that laff-a-minute gag fest aka Hogan's Heroes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">*</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) saying, “Survey says…” so you’re going to have to be satisfied with possibly-not-very-bright contestants in the section title link above. Never worry, Gentle Reader, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">your</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> answers are valuable to us all. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Way back when, seemingly forever ago but merely just before </span><a href="https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle Open World</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2016, <a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: blue;">Gary Adashek</span></u></a>, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnabooth" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">John Booth</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliedelemar" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Natalie Delemar</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yr. Hmbl. & Obt. Svt.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-smart-view-survey-oh-yes-or-no-you.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">asked you</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to comment on what you think of that oft-maligned but oh-so-necessary Excel (and other Office tools but they rarely seem to be used elsewhere) add-in, Smart View.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the survey was </span><a href="http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/1473338144" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on the Network54 Essbase board, we also said that sooner or later we’d release the results of the survey as shown below. Sooner was quite a while ago; later is right now. Sorry but I’ve been busy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And the survey says</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course Read The Whole Thing below but for those of you almost as lazy as I, here’s my take on the results.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">396 people responded to the survey. That’s an awful lot of uptake for an on-line survey and proof if proof be needed that Smart View is important to all of us. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s an interesting (or depressing depending on your age and boredom with your career) note: more than half of the respondents have used Smart View for more than 10 years. Oracle EPM users are long time users.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, the results confound me. Do you really think that Smart View’s performance is acceptable? There are times when Excel goes into “white out mode” on a large retrieve that makes me want to </span><a href="http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/A_Danger_to_Myself_and_Others" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Be a Danger to Others, Be a Danger to Myself.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ain’t nothing like explaining to a customer that yes, that Essbase database I created is really fast but Smart View blows its brains out when it retrieves 20,000 rows so no, this system isn’t any good. Fun times, fun times but apparently I am alone in this. Lucky you.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5cHJx43i0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I like it, I really like it</span></a></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As someone who whines incessantly about Smart View’s shortcomings, I am somewhat discomfited to share that more people love it or at least like it than are fair to middling on Smart View. That one was a surprise to me but as noted, I Am A Whiner. Or a perfectionist. Or both.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On this one I am in accord with the general public (so that’s at least one thing in my life where I barely line up with my peers – </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s Not Easy Being Green</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) in that Essbase and Planning are the top use cases for Smart View. I note with interest that there are users of Oracle GL out there. Given that Oracle GL analysis sits on Essbase (yes, it does – there’s a headless ASO database under the covers), I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised but this blog isn’t exactly aimed at ERP users. I can only surmise that there are some who use Smart View for the more traditional EPM/BI data sources. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can tell you that of the two users of the Oracle GL they also use Essbase, Planning, FR, and HSF. So yes, a comprehensive suite of Oracle products. Somewhere there’s a happy Oracle sales rep or two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As might be imagined, ad-hoc and forms are the primary use cases for Smart View. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of note, Smart Queries and Smart Slices are used far more than I would have guessed. I have never, and I mean never, seen either feature in use at my clients. I can only attribute that to: me completely not seeing what’s in use (likely), working with net new clients and so they haven’t gotten to the more advanced features yet (also quite likely), or blind prejudice on my part (they’re both intriguing but incomplete functions) makes me not see them (also quite likely). Regardless, they are in use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the comments and see if they jibe with yours. The more critical (and funny) ones seem to be from those who have issues with the tool. For your amusement, here are some of the best.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's clunky, it's slow, it's buggy. It isn't as good as a 20 year old product. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whenever I am validating, I use the Excel add-in. whenever I demo in front of clients, i force myself to use Smart View. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Documentatino for SV is terrible, dull, boring and hard to understand. Whey cant Oracle do a better job of communicating how to use SV and provide some examples. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a bag of hurt in almost every production scenario.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">extra hop through APS causes pain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning needs to be 1 to 1 to web or SUI</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, there are pure Essbase/Planning only shops where Smart View is really a sledge hammer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning connection performance, particularly with ASO cubes, is horrific.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I just want to kill myself when I see folks look at HSGET as "The Secret Weapon" because SV is a freaking nightmare at screwing-up layouts as compared to the Classic Ad-In and the easy of layout therein.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don't use any of Smartview features because I don't like it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It keeps checking this box. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(ed. Is this some kind of existential angst or is the survey just not working? I prefer the former as it speaks to the futility of man. And surveys.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On with the numbers</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presented without further comment, below are the numbers as reported by SurveyMonkey. Read ‘em and weep. Oops, that was a comment. Sawry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it is buggy </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nice for Excel, but Not good enough for other Office Products.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bug bug bug bug. Slow. APS. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's clunky, it's slow, it's buggy. It isn't as good as a 20 year old product. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With Office 2013, it crashes consistently when we have multiple files open.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smart View was and remains the stupidest name for this "thing"... Calling if Stupid View would be more accurate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Very much appreciate Planning forms in Excel format. Like the ability to toggle between products.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have some trouble with the send data feature at times. 1. when I connect and lose the data I want to send. 2. thinking the worksheet is connected but it really isn't. 3. not being able to send #missing or 0s and sending data at the same time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the essbase addin look and feel, navigation, # of clicks to get to your destination is better</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like it, still using both the add-in and smartview</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smartview has had stability issues and I would like more VBA support for R&A</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Definitely do not like the POV concept. I like the old add-in where you could have actual "page" dimensions and didn't have to repeat every member at the top of the column, or put it in a POV. Also the fact that you can't copy sheets and have the "connection" information automatically come with it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am not a fan and I want the add in back. I do not use HFM because of Smartview</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">quirky with rows disappearing, connection set up is clumsy. I do like refresh all. No one I knows uses Smart View in Power Point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Used to preform better, but now it freezes and I often have POV issues</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">could be better</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Has came along way but needs to close some gaps.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Great idea in concept being the all in one tool and allowing users to directly access forms within Excel (many of our users like to extract Planning forms into Excel so this skips that). Also found that having the Excel add-in was helpful when our EPM was down (different boxes for each in our enviornment), while Smartview goes down with EPM which means users can't access essbase even though it's still running.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whenever I am validating, I use the Excel add-in. whenever I demo in front of clients, i force myself to use Smart View. Smart View still has challenges. It also obviously has capabilities that the Excel add-in does not have, namely connect to planning for forms. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">essbase excel add-in is the best to retrieve data from essbase</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My customers LOVE it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Love it for simple web forms; please support composite forms on one Excel worksheet</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish the cascade feature for Essbase would cascade based on your sheet options, not your default options.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ONLY if it does not time out and have the HSF entities in a stall state, otherwise i like the product.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase adhoc needs option for ancester at top or bottom when zooming</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">would also like access to the dimension properties</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">want to see better member search not having to be so precise</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Version control of the many different versions of SV is problematic as a System Admin. Documentatino for SV is terrible, dull, boring and hard to understand. Whey cant Oracle do a better job of communicating how to use SV and provide some examples. Our Essbase Excel Add-in users hate SV and I am having a difficult time getting them to move to SV.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a piece of junk. Terrible. I will refuse to use it as long as the old add-in still works.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Love it for Essbase and for some Planning (forms, outline)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have learned to work within the limitations </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compared to SAP BPC addin, Smartview lacks may features that could make SV even more useful (formatting, member names pick lists, auto complete member names, etc)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smart View needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, and possibly split up into multiple products. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Excel crashes too often due to Smart View</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But have a lot of problems with VBA API in Excel, not all spreadsheet add-in functions were created in SmartView VBA (es. EsbCalc)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Really love it. But would be nice to use old school ie AddIn</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If direct connections could be established to Essbase from SmartView the same as you could in the classic add-in and achieve comparable speed I would be happy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some days I love it, other days it is a pain b/c it just doesn't perform the way that I think it just should</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Except for large pulls of data - too slow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At times it is slow, but most of the time it is fast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Especially on large retrieves, even though we have the latest version.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a bag of hurt in almost every production scenario.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Between acceptable and slow...Many crashes cause users to not like tool, and retrieval time is much slower than older Essbase add-in.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is good as long as template is small and clean, SV is very slow on client side if template is large or other large Excel files are open.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is definitely overhead compared to the old add-in. However, the advantages that SV brings counterbalance this drop-off in performance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for large retrievals the snmartview addin requires pc setup the essbase addin doesn't.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The R&A refresh has a memory leak which can drive Excel memory past 1GB</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">extra hop through APS causes pain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the interface is poor and it is difficult to maintain connections and copy ad hoc sheets to continue working</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not as fast as the add-in, but since we moved to Office 2016 the performance is awful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It still buggy sometimes where you have to tinker with it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning needs to be 1 to 1 to web or SUI</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is relied on Excel, we find some issue when Excel at VM desktop which negatively impact SmartView performance</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lots of odd errors...lose the add in on occasion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It depends, the larged dimensions are slow to retrieve.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">multiple work sheets impact performance considerably if not careful (refresh all).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hard to connect to, throws errors and will disable itself so you have to go back to Options an reenable it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times out</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fast in Excel 2010; acceptable to poor in Excel 2013-16</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Does not work with any of my spreadsheets that use the old add-in.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Formulas seem to be slow in newer release. Ad Hoc very fast</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning Ad-hoc is not acceptable. Far too slow. Essbase is great though</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When compared to the addin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A properly designed application will perform bad no matter the tool</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, there are pure Essbase/Planning only shops where Smart View is really a sledge hammer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The last version is not as good as the one before </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">too many bugs for a much to long period of time still open</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">with HFM 11.1.2.4.xxx</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I miss the easy access to hot keys. With the move to Excel 2013 and beyond we lost the ability to do a "alt-e-r" for instance. Now the hotkeys aren't as easy to use.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Underlying cube more of factor with speed </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">comparing with Spreadsheet addin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MDX queries executed with SV are abnormally slow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New version is very buggy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essbase Excel Add-in blows Smart View away in speed and dataset size.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some days I love it, other days it is a pain b/c it just doesn't perform the way that it just should</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning connection performance, particularly with ASO cubes, is horrific.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">None</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Should have functionality to broadcast messages, highlight incompatible POVs, confirm data loads</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Formula-based workbooks with HFM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I just want to kill myself when I see folks look at HSGET as "The Secret Weapon" because SV is a freaking nightmare at screwing-up layouts as compared to the Classic Ad-In and the easy of layout therein.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">essbase addin allowed for easier use of vba with essbase features than smartview.Smartview hardcodes in...with formulas...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* One might argue that Richard Dawson was at his best in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Heroes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Hogan’s Heroes</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> but that’s only in comparison to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Feud" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Family Feud</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. If you want to watch a good war movie about the not so fun life of a PW, watch Billy Wilder’s </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_17" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Stalag 17</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Any movie with Otto Preminger, William Holden, and Peter Graves has to be brilliant. I love the </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/quotes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">line about the curtains</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One might argue that documentation is boring (although this is sort of unlikely from someone who maintains an active blog, writes books (I have another one percolating, sort of), does white papers, etc.) and only a boring geek cares about docs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If mastery (well, sort of) of these EPM tools we know and love is needed to build good-no-great systems and stay employed, and we cannot absorb the functionality, nuances, and procedures through proximity, then surely we’ve got to figure out how to use the damn things. And </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is what we learn from documentation. See, it ain’t boring? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle’s EPM cloud documentation marches apace. The impact of Cloud funding and thus development is a dizzying sight to behold. Those $, £, and € have given the documentation team wings and it shows. Will on-premises documentation ever catch up? A geek can dream but the direction is pretty firmly set. #onpremisesmatters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EPM Cloud documentation is part of a broad movement. Yes, you could go directly to the </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SAAS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> section of the documentation but you owe it to yourself to poke around other bits to see what’s on offer. Interested in </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">PAAS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? PAAS’ </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/data-visualization-cloud/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DVSS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/reportingcs_use/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">BICS</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">? It’s all there for the reading.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since I </span><a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/earn+my+crust" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">earn my crust</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in Planning in its on-premises and Cloud manifestations, let’s dive right in. Having taken a look at a few of the other EPM Cloud products I can say their approach is similar. As I’m not a CPA, I’ll focus on the products I’m most familiar with but I </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">encourage you to explore</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the key advantages of PBCS or any other Cloud offering is that the “wonderful” world of infrastructure is Oracle’s problem. Huzzah! How to begin? At the </span><a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-year-dot.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Year Dot</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with a guide on how to </span><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-cloud/csgsg/overview-buying-nonmetered-oracle-cloud-service.html#CSGSG486" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">buy Oracle cloud</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This sounds silly for those of us without the corporate credit card but even we geeks need to understand how Oracle packages and sells its Cloud offerings.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFChichBoPI" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">As you like it</span></a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep at it</span></h1>
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Cameron Lackpourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701786303677521318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650953985627040991.post-7780112863416201652017-01-17T13:57:00.002-05:002017-01-17T16:02:51.435-05:00The Compleat Idiot's Guide to PBCS, No. 19 -- Delete Multiple Files with EPM Automate<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or perhaps he fell under the hypnotic gesture of </span><a href="http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2016/08/mandrake-magician.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">Cameron</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mandrake The Magician</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and just wrote it ‘cos he was compelled to as shown below:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alas, I have neither the snazzy convertible (actually I do have a blue 1993 Miata MX-5 not altogether unlike Mandrake's) or the tophat (I do have one of </span><a href="http://www.dropzonetactical.com/headwear/stubby-boonie-hat/stubby-boonie-hat.php" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">these</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> which are fantastic for keeping the deer ticks off in the woods along with </span><a href="https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-premium-insect-repellent/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">this</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) or the cape or alas the trimmed moustache (or any moustache at all) or the power of the supernatural and hence the ability to make bad guys drop rifles on their heads which, given the CRACK, had to really hurt as evinced by the “OU!” grunts of the two goons. I do however have this blog so there’s that; I’ll bet Mandrake doesn’t have one of those. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Delete multiple files with EPM Automate</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of this document is to share a solution which allows for the deletion of multiple files using EPM Automate. This solution simply extends the functionality of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">deletefile</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> command from deleting a single file to deleting multiple files with the assistance of a file list and recursive calls to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">deletefile</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> command. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The heart of the solution is found in lines 36 through 49 below where the deletefile command called for each record in the file. Additional echo commands are used to display the activity of the job.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Execution and Testing</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris’ conclusion</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use this batch script to delete a list of files from the cloud. Remember to first have an active session with the cloud server and to provide a file to the batch command. Enjoy using this script and I hope it saves you time managing the files in your cloud environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ea_deletefiles.bat</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Check if the file exists</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Check if the file is empty</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for %%A in ("%1") do if %%~zA==0 goto EmptyFile</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Recursively call deletefile for each record in the file</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM Trim trim any left whitespace; beware whitespace on the right</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #92d050; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REM One filename per row</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0070c0; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for /F "tokens=* usebackq delims= " %%a in (%1) do (</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365f91; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My conclusion</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet again another excellent post from Chris. We owe him a debt of gratitude for giving his knowledge away for free. Yes, yes, that’s the point of this blog and others but you (we) ought to reflect on the community the EPM world has. It is possible for people to be altruistic. You see that in </span><a href="http://www.odtug.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ODTUG</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and you see it here. Thanks again, Chris.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be seeing you.</span></div>
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