Oracle's Hyperion Essbase Visual Explorer

Oracle Business Intelligence BI Software : Enterprise Performance Management Application : Oracle Hyperion Essbase Visual Explorer

Oracle's Hyperion Essbase Visual Explorer (Visual Explorer) software is an innovative performance management interface that is based on five years of research at Stanford University into how to increase user productivity through visual navigation and analysis. This live performance visibility window into Hyperion Essbase can turn a sea of numbers into explicit insight. Visual Explorer helps novice and seasoned users:

• Navigate vast detail across many dimensions
• Quickly identify trends, exceptions and interdependencies
• Understand the relationships that drive business performance

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Oracle Hyperion Essbase

Oracle Business Intelligence BI Software : Enterprise Performance Management Application : Oracle Hyperion Essbase

Oracle's Hyperion Essbase (Essbase) is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server that provides an environment for deploying pre-packaged applications or developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

With a rapid application development environment, Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios. Aside from its high scalability, a key strength of Essbase lies in its ability to allow users to "write back" to an application's data repository under security. This makes it ideal for developing forward looking applications such as forecasting, scenario modeling, and "what if" type analysis.

With Essbase, organizations define a dimensional view of their business—and provide business users with new levels of self-sufficiency to access, navigate, and gain actionable insight into critical business issues. All of this through the various end-user tools for Essbase.
For example, Hyperion Smart View for Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Hyperion Visual Explorer, and several modules of Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, such as Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion Web Analysis, Hyperion Financial Reporting, are some of the various Oracle tools that enable users to interact with an Essbase application.

Essbase provides adaptable data storage mechanisms for specific types of analytic and performance management applications, thereby ensuring sub-second response times regardless of the complexity of the analytics. For example, Block data storage option (BSO) enables driver-based scenario modeling, forecasting, and predictive analytic applications. Aggregate data storage option (ASO) is optimized for massive sparse data sets, supporting thousands of concurrent business users performing sophisticated analyses at the speed of thought.

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Hyperion Essbase—System 9

Oracle Business Intelligence BI Foundation and Tools Software : Oracle Hyperion Essbase—System 9

Oracle's Hyperion Essbase - System 9 is the industry-leading OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server. Essbase provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. With a rapid application development environment that is managed by the business, Essbase enables the business to quickly model complex business scenarios. For example, Essbase makes it easy for line-of-business personnel to develop and manage analytic applications that model complex scenarios, forecast the business and perform "what-if" analyses in order to look into the future. Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, for large data sets, and for complex business models. It is hot-pluggable across any data source.

BENEFITS

• Richest business user experience—Delivers "speed-of-thought" query response time so users can quickly understand the metrics that influence business performance, ask questions, and make informed decisions. With its outstanding Microsoft Office integration, Essbase resonates with business and financial analysts alike. In addition, a suite of reporting tools satisfies the diverse needs of users across the enterprise. Whether inside a spreadsheet, through formatted reports, via a powerful ad hoc graphical interface, or a data visualization paradigm, business users can easily and intuitively understand what drives the business.
• Highly advanced calculation engine—At its core, Essbase is the most advanced, high performance calculation engine on the market. It ships with over 350 pre-built, out-of-the-box functions, accelerating the development of complex business models. A single point of maintenance makes it easy for an administrator to manage business rules. From straightforward aggregations to complex cross-dimensional allocations; from comprehensive time series intelligence to financial sophistication, the Essbase calculator delivers premium performance and breadth of functionality.
• Best custom analytic environment—Essbase enables line-of-business personnel to drive application design and rapid iterations. The highly graphical "outline" technology makes it easy to build dimensions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios. Essbase's unique multi-user read/write technology allows the creation of forward looking applications such as trending, forecasting and scenario analysis. It is the Essbase engine that powers the Hyperion Planning suite of applications. Performance is optimized via a range of data storage and compression methods best suited for the type of application being built. Essbase supports both 32 and 64 bit computing across both Windows and Unix operating environments—capable of massive scalability for enterprise wide deployments.

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