I freely submit that I am a complete geek.  But it’s okay, because I have come to accept and embrace that inner geek.  Anyway… Many organizations run jobs to perform a task as certain intervals.  Your job as a good Essbase/Hyperion administrator is to be lazy — that is, make the computers do the boring [...]

Due to various business requirements, some organizations end up archiving many of their cubes each year.  For example, if you have a huge Measures dimension that is constantly changing (even in subtle ways), but you need to be able to go back at some point in the future and see what some numbers looked like [...]

I received an email today from someone looking to speed up their data loads, specifically their ASO data loads that seem to be taking too long.  This is, of course, an important topic for many Essbase cube wranglers.  I would be willing to bet that many people spend more time optimizing calcs and may even [...]

Last year in New Orleans, the Hyperion track at ODTUG was an unqualified success.  It was such a success, in fact, that hundreds of abstracts were submitted for next years conference in Monterey.  I submitted two of those, so wish me luck.  I’d like to talk about an end-to-end Essbase automation system profiling/performance/optimization effort which [...]

This one is a bit of a blast from the past.  And I mean that — the timestamp on this file is over five years ago.  You may have heard people refer to this method.  If you’ve ever found yourself getting confused over what-job-runs-when-and-on-what, then this might be a technique that works for you.  Obviously, [...]