Archive for February, 2008

Normalize a fact table for a better EIS model

Posted by jason on February 1st, 2008 under eis, essbase, sql Tags: ,  •  No Comments

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 [...]

Making order out of chaos with Essbase Integration Server – part 2

Posted by jason on February 1st, 2008 under essbase Tags: ,  •  No Comments

Last time I gave sort of a high-level look at pounding the rigid financial page definitions from the corporate overlords upstream folks, and generating the outlines based on this information. So now I have some nice fresh outlines, but I don’t have any processes for data just yet. I have a couple of issues I [...]