So, just what is this EIS thing?  You’ve heard about it, you know it has something to do with outlines, but you haven’t used it and you just don’t know where to start.  I understand.  I’ve been there.  I couldn’t really see an immediate payoff to using it, which kind of made getting all setup [...]

The Old In many companies, there is a lot of code laying around that is, for lack of better word, “old.” In the case of Essbase-related functionality, this may mean that there are some automation systems with several ESSCMD scripts laying around.  You could rewrite them in MaxL, but where’s the payoff?  There is nothing [...]

Generally I don’t load data through EIS because quite honestly, I fudged some of the EIS models when I first made them and now I’m pretty much married to them.  They are perfect for loading the outlines, but not data.  Earlier this week I was playing around with one of my newer models, trying to [...]