I got a call the other day from one of my fellow Essbase developers. One of the cubes in their budgeting system was taking a long time to finish calculations, whereas just days before the calculation time was just fine.  I have an almost unhealthy obsession with cube performance and optimization, so I jumped in [...]

Here’s a quick post that is a bit of a precursor to some of my more in-depth performance analysis articles that will be coming out in the future.  One of my automation systems takes a bit over an hour to run.  There are a lot of people I know that need to squeeze performance out [...]

There are numerous ASO cubes among my flock.  Usually the choice to use ASO was not arrived at lightly — it was/is for very specific technical reasons.  Typically, the main reason I have for using ASO is to get the fast data loads and the ability to load oodles of noodles… I mean data.  Yes, [...]