To report and analyze on these data sources, many companies are turning to tools like Tableau with rich visualization and trending capabilities. However, the first step to reporting on Oracle PBCS or FCCS data is often the most challenging: getting…
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Tableau and Essbase – A Match Made Perfect By ExoInsight
There is one area that Tableau and almost all other visualization tools have struggled to seamlessly adopt: OLAP data. Data stored in OLAP cubes such as Oracle Essbase is often difficult to work with in a reporting tool built primarily…
Power BI and Essbase
The popularity of Power BI has skyrocketed in the past couple of years. Many companies are now mandating PBI as their corporate data analytics standard. It’s ability to connect to any data source (web service, relational database, analytics platform, flat…
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Casabase is ready
We’ve been working on Casabase for the past 9 months. Based on a relational database, it resolves the issues with Essbase that lead most people to use cubeSavvy Utilities. It also uses free-form Excel retrieves, but supports Excel 2016, unlike…
Casabase: the multidimensional aggregation engine you’ve been looking for
Having worked with Essbase for the past 10 years, I know all of its good and bad points. The Excel add-in is by far its best feature. The ability to perform free-form retrievals provides an unparalleled data analysis experience. Those…
cubeSavvy: relational database grids
Having already added every type of Essbase grid available (MDX, report scripts, ad-hoc, free form), the next grid type was obvious: For now relational grids are read-only, but I’m planning to make them writable in the near future. Currently two “Database…
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Russian installer
Почти половина посетителей этой страницы приходится на Россию. Получается конечно, что они уже умеют читать по-английски. Но кому не удобнее на своем родном языке? Я давно начал переводить cubeSavvy на русский, но далеко не весь текст был переведён. Однако в этой последней версии…
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More about new features in production release
There are several new features that I’d like to call attention to in the production release. One of the most important, even though it’s not visible to end users, is the installer’s ability to create a Windows service. Previously, the…
Announcing the first cubeSavvy production release
I’m proud to announce the official production release of cubeSavvy 6.0.0. Almost four months in beta status has resulted in a battle-hardened, reliable product. I’d like to thank everyone who tested and provided feedback and/or suggestions. It was a tremendous help and…
cubeSavvy web-based Essbase grids: beta 9.7 – Windows service
This beta release contains no changes to core cubeSavvy functionality. Rather, the installer received a major improvement in preparation for the upcoming production release. Now, when installing on Windows, a cubeSavvy service is automatically created. cubeSavvy can then be stopped and started…