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3. Oracle Essbase New Features and Roadmap Update Gabby Rubin Senior Director, Product Management John Baker Director, Analytics

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5. Program Agenda • Introduction • Essbase Product Strategy • New Essbase Features • Upcoming and Future Features

6. Complete Enterprise Business Intelligence Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Enterprise Business Intelligence Centralize semantic layer and definitions of all metrics, calculations, and measures for data-driven visualizations Increase operational effectiveness from reports to planning that eliminates cost redundancy PAST PRESENT FUTURE COMMON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MODEL

7. Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Single Enterprise-Scale Business Analytics Platform • Unique Features • Common Enterprise Information Model with physical, semantic and presentation layers • Market-leading OLAP server for forward-looking analysis • Single set of metrics across the enterprise • Benefits • Improve business performance by linking insight to action • Consistent enterprise metrics for improved productivity • Single analytic view across all data sources

8. Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Oracle Essbase OBIEE EPM Microsoft Office • Essbase provides a platform to build analytic applications which allows users to model, analyze, and interpret complex business scenarios • Benefits • Enables ‘speed of thought’ modeling of alternative scenarios • Simplifies the forecasting and variance analysis processes • Secure, shared, single version of the truth • Centralized functions, calculations, aggregations • Unique Features • Ease of use for model creation and analysis • Users use familiar tools to analyze – mainly Excel • A centralized enterprise-scale solution • Financial & time intelligence • High performance for complex analysis • Oracle Essbase Server • Enterprise scale • Optimized multidimensional storage • Over 350 analytic functions • Financial, time and calendar intelligence • Multi user write-back • Trickle feed

9. New Essbase Features

10. Oracle Essbase Roadmap Subject to Change • Calclanguage enhancements • Calc run-time parameters – sub-variable improvements • New calc functions • @ISMBRUDA, @MEMBERAT, @RANGEHASVAL, @RANGEFIRSTVAL, @RANGELASTVAL, @INTERSECT, @CREATEBLOCK • Performance • JAPI performance for outline editing • Dim Build performance improvements • ASO with multiple attributes • XREF performance enhancements (1/2) • BI Specific (BI Server, OBIEE, Infra) • BI – MDX performance improvements • BI PS – new Essbase related features • Parent last, null suppression control, enhanced member selection • FMW security, BI Shiphome delivery • Resolve naming restrictions • Security filter callback • Dimension member properties • APS/Essbase custom aggregates and lists • Calc language enhancements • Adding @XRANGE support for 30 functions • Parallel Fix • Performance • MDX performance • Sub Select • Aggregate function • JAPI performance for batch outline editing • XREF performance enhancements (2/2) • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (1/2) • BI Related • Cube Deployment Services v1 • Null dimension members (via CDS) • Renegade members • MOLAP Aggregation • Cube Deployment Services v2 • Enhanced Financial Logic • Aggregation Weight • Java Agent • Sandboxing • BSO Solve Order • Hot Backup • Active-Active • Essbase ADF controls • Calc language enhancements • New functions • For Loop • Performance • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (2/2) • Dim Build performance improvements (BSO) Essbase 11.1.2.3/BI 11.1.1.7 April-June 2013 What’s Next 0-12 month planning cycle Future DirectionsPost 12 month planning cycle For information purposes only, not a commitment to the development, release, and timing of any features or functionality.

11. Increased Integration with BI BI 11.1.1.7 (Essbase 11.1.2.2.200) • Essbase as part of the BISHIPHOME • Essbase related features in Presentation Services • Null Suppression control • Parent-Last drill down • Support for FMW security • Improvements to MDX generation and performance

12. @MEMBERAT ( mbrList, mbrIndex) Returns the specified member in a list of members based on an index @MEMBERAT(@CHILDREN(“Colas”), 1) @ISRANGENOTEMPTY (SKIPMISSING | SKIPZERO | SKIPBOTH, mbrlist) Returns TRUE is the specific member list contains at list one data item @ISRANGENOTEMPTY (SKIPMISSING, Sales->Cola) @RANGEFIRSTVAL (SKIPMISSING | SKIPZERO | SKIPBOTH | SKIPNONE, mbrlist) Returns the first data value in a range @RANGEFIRSTVAL (SKIPBOTH, @CHILDREN(“Qtr1”)) @RANGELASTVAL (SKIPMISSING | SKIPZERO | SKIPBOTH | SKIPNONE, mbrlist) Returns the last data value in a range @RANGELASTVAL (SKIPMISSING, @CHILDREN(“Qtr4”)) @ISMBRUDA (mbrName, UDAstr) Checks if a UDA is defined for a specific member (similar to @ISUDA which works on the current member) @ISUDA ( “New York”, “Major Market”) @INTERSECT ( list1, list2 ) Returns the list of members that appear in both specified lists @INTERSECT (@CHILDREN(“Colas”),@ATTRIBUTE(can)) @CREATEBLOCK ( mbrName) Creates a block with a sparse member name or a sparse member combination @CREATEBLOCK ( “100-10”->”New York”) New Essbase Calc Functions EPM 11.1.2.3 (Essbase 11.1.2.3) Have you tried any of the new functions?

13. Run Time Substitution Variables EPM 11.1.2.3 (Essbase 11.1.2.3) • Run time sub-variables that can be initialized at the calc script level and changed at run time • Opens up Essbase for new analytics use cases • Allow concurrent users to perform custom advanced analytics using different parameters • EXECUTE CALCULATION Sample.Basic.Calc3 WITH RUNTIMESUBVARS ‘salesNum=100;Discount=50’; • SET RUNTIMESUBVARS{myMarket = “California”;myCity = “Sunnyvale”, “Santa Clara”, “San Jose”;salesNum = 100;startDate = @TODATE(“DD/MM/YY”,”10/11/12”);pointD = “Actual”->”Final”;}; Do you have plans to use RTSV?

14. Performance Enhancements EPM 11.1.2.3 (Essbase 11.1.2.3) • XREF Performance Improvements • Up to 40X better than previous releases • Still slower compared to same cube access, but reasonably close • JAPI Outline Functions Enhancements • Improve the resource management of the JAPI outline functions • Allow for higher concurrency in applications that allow outline editing • ASO Dim Build Performance • Specifically with duplicate members

15. XREF Query Test Results are in Seconds

16. What’s Next in Essbase?

17. Essbase Consumers Planning • Standalone • BI • EPM • Exalytics • Essbase • Fusion BI Server HPCM • Standalone • Customers building customer EPM, LOB BI and analytical applications • EPM Portfolio • Hyperion Planning (and related apps) and HPCM are built on top of Essbase • BI and Exalytics • Essbase is part of BI Foundation Suite delivering capabilities around financial and time based analysis, projections and simulation • Specific performance features targeted at Exalytics • Fusion • Currently 3 Fusion apps are using Essbase (GL balances, CRM territory management, Projects performance) • Essbase is completely embedded in the apps BI Apps LOB BI Simulations GL Custom EPM Projects CRM

18. Oracle Essbase Roadmap Subject to Change • Calclanguage enhancements • Calc run-time parameters – sub-variable improvements • New calc functions • @ISMBRUDA, @MEMBERAT, @RANGEHASVAL, @RANGEFIRSTVAL, @RANGELASTVAL, @INTERSECT, @CREATEBLOCK • Performance • JAPI performance for outline editing • Dim Build performance improvements • ASO with multiple attributes • XREF performance enhancements (1/2) • BI Specific (BI Server, OBIEE, Infra) • BI – MDX performance improvements • BI PS – new Essbase related features • Parent last, null suppression control, enhanced member selection • FMW security, BI Shiphome delivery • Resolve naming restrictions • Security filter callback • Dimension member properties • APS/Essbase custom aggregates and lists • Calc language enhancements • Adding @XRANGE support for 30 functions • Parallel Fix • Performance • MDX performance • Sub Select • Aggregate function • JAPI performance for batch outline editing • XREF performance enhancements (2/2) • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (1/2) • BI Related • Cube Deployment Services v1 • Null dimension members (via CDS) • Renegade members • MOLAP Aggregation • Cube Deployment Services v2 • Enhanced Financial Logic • Aggregation Weight • Java Agent • Sandboxing • BSO Solve Order • Hot Backup • Active-Active • Essbase ADF controls • Calc language enhancements • New functions • For Loop • Performance • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (2/2) • Dim Build performance improvements (BSO) Essbase 11.1.2.3/BI 11.1.1.7 April-June 2013 What’s Next 0-12 month planning cycle Future DirectionsPost 12 month planning cycle For information purposes only, not a commitment to the development, release, and timing of any features or functionality.

19. Prefix • Presented features represents our current 12 months plan • Development plans are subject to change, do not make buying decisions based on future features! • When released, some features might be restricted to BI, EPM or Exalytics

20. Make Essbase Better at What Essbase is Best • Improved quality and stability • Enhance the Calc Language • Performance, Performance, Performance • Queries, calc, APIs… • Generic and Exalytics • ASO, BSO and more… • Continue to improve BI Integration • Simplified sophistication

21. FIXPARALLEL Block (1/4) Subject to Change • Eliminate restrictions of CALCPARALLEL • Execute any FIX commands in parallel • Give power of parallelism to the users • Ability to control the task dimensions used for division of work, not dependent on outline order • Extend ESSBASE support for parallelism: • XREF, XWRITE • DATACOPY, DATAEXPORT

22. FIXPARALLEL Block (2/4) Subject to Change • Enable parallel calculation on a block of command using a specific number of threads • FIXPARALLEL (numThreads, mbrList)[ SET TASKSIZE = UNIQUE| ANALYZE | analyze-output ; ]COMMANDS ;[ POSTFIXPARALLEL ( [ varName = ACCUMULATEVAR ( staticParVarName ); ]* ); ]ENDFIXPARALLEL • New types of variables • Initialized for each thread THREADPARVAR varName [= value]; • Initialized for each task within a threadTASKPARVAR varName [= value]; • Supports FIX within FIXPARALLEL and FIXPARALLEL within FIX

23. FIXPARALLEL – Examples (3/4) Subject to Change • Sample.Basic with added dimensions • Tested on Exalytics with RAM Drive • Use DATAEXPORT to write a section of database to files • CALCPARALLEL does not support DATAEXPORT BEFORE FIX ( @CHILDREN(“East”, …) ) DATAEXPORT “File” “ ” “dexp.txt” “#Mi”; ENDFIX AFTER FIXPARALLEL (8, @CHILDREN(“East”, …) ) DATAEXPORT “File” “ ” “dexp.txt” “#Mi”; ENDFIXPARALLEL • Important Disclaimer • Based on a release/platform still under development

24. FIXPARALLEL – Examples (4/4) Subject to Change • Sample.Basic with added dimensions. • Tested on EXALYTICS with RAMDISK. • Use DATACOPY to copy 10,000 blocks with block size of 16K • CALCPARALLEL does not support DATACOPY BEFORE FIX ( @RELATIVE(“Version”, 0)) DATACOPY “100-10” TO “300-10”; … ENDFIX AFTER FIXPARALLEL (4, @RELATIVE(“Version”, 0)) DATACOPY “100-10” TO “300-10”; … ENDFIXPARALLEL • Important Disclaimer • Based on a release/platform still under development

25. Additional CALC Language Enhancements Subject to Change • @XRANGE Support in Functions • Currently @XRANGE is supported by about 14 functions • @AVGRANGE(Sales, @XRANGE(“2012”->Jul,”2012”->Jun)) • @XRANGE will support 30 additional functions that currently supports range lists • E.g. @ALLOCATE, @COUNT, @PTD, @RANK, @IRR, @VARIANCE • String manipulation functions • Support for FOR LOOP

26. Essbase/Exalytics BSO Performance Project B-tree Extended Memory Scalability Queries per Minute Number of vUsers • Important Disclaimer • Based on a release/platform still under development

27. Provider Services SmartView Recorder Subject to Change • OTN based utility – not a product feature! • Useful for workload and data quality testing with SV and Essbase • Post upgrade data quality • Concurrent workload tests • Record user activity in Smartview (capture APS requests) • Replay the activity • Check for differences in returned data • Can simulate concurrent users • TBD: Performance measurements

28. BI MOLAP Based Aggregation Subject to Change • Using Essbase to accelerate queries in OBIEE has been a long standing goal • BI will greatly benefit from Essbase as a query accelerator • To provide a viable solution we need to: • Ensure performance and scale • Resolve modeling issues • Resolve data issues • Simplify integration

29. MDX Improvements Subject to Change • MDX Optimization for Attributes • Optimized Aggregate Command • Significant performance improvements for totals at multi-level hierarchies • Improvement is based on the query and dimension depth • MDX Sub Select • Significant performance improvement for queries against large databases • The bigger the model, the (relatively) better it gets

30. Resolve Member Name Restrictions Subject to Change • Remove many of the naming restrictions for Essbase • Object name length • Reserved words • Restrictions on characters • Initial support will be restricted to JAPI and data loaded from SQL sources • Uniqueness will be address in later releases

31. Data Issues Between RDBMS and Essbase

32. Renegade Members Subject to Change • A selected member which will collect the data from rejected records of the dimension • Every dimension can have one (with one exception) • Renegade records are logged in a similar way to rejected records, but remember to clear the renegade member before reloading them • Best practices • It should be in Generation 2 of the dimension, but there is no validation for it • Cannot have one for the Measure dimension

33. Renegade Members

34. Cube Deployment Services (CDS) Subject to Change • XML based database creation • Complete cube definition is constructed in an XML file • Ease of integration with other tools and platforms • Cloud ready (reduce API chatter) • Competed XMLs are processed by Essbase CDS which creates the Essbase database and load rules • Web Services based API • Initial release will be limited and will be used only for BI MOLAP aggregation

35. The Essbase Engine Dilemma… • Should I use BSO or ASO? Sparse vs. Dense? • Custom consolidation = BSO • Write back = BSO • Dynamic aggregation = ASO • …

36. Putting BSO to the (Unfair) Test

37. Putting BSO to the (Unfair) Test • 14 Dimension • Data loaded only at Level 0 (everything will need to be dynamic) • 10 very nasty queries with combinations of totals at various levels

38. Introducing: BSO/ASO Hybrid Mode • Standard BSO database with BSO capabilities coupled with ASO dynamic performance • Use ASO query processor for BSO dynamic aggregation • It is BSO - supports CALC scripts, write-back, CALC formulas, etc. • Specific optimizations for specific use cases • Might even be faster than ASO in some scenarios

39. Oracle Essbase Roadmap Subject to Change • Calclanguage enhancements • Calc run-time parameters – sub-variable improvements • New calc functions • @ISMBRUDA, @MEMBERAT, @RANGEHASVAL, @RANGEFIRSTVAL, @RANGELASTVAL, @INTERSECT, @CREATEBLOCK • Performance • JAPI performance for outline editing • Dim Build performance improvements • ASO with multiple attributes • XREF performance enhancements (1/2) • BI Specific (BI Server, OBIEE, Infra) • BI – MDX performance improvements • BI PS – new Essbase related features • Parent last, null suppression control, enhanced member selection • FMW security, BI Shiphome delivery • Resolve naming restrictions • Security filter callback • Dimension member properties • APS/Essbase custom aggregates and lists • Calc language enhancements • Adding @XRANGE support for 30 functions • Parallel Fix • Performance • MDX performance • Sub Select • Aggregate function • JAPI performance for batch outline editing • XREF performance enhancements (2/2) • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (1/2) • BI Related • Cube Deployment Services v1 • Null dimension members (via CDS) • Renegade members • BI Java Agent • Cube Deployment Services v2 • Enhanced Financial Logic • Aggregation Weight • Java Agent • Sandboxing • BSO Solve Order • Hot Backup • Active-Active • Essbase ADF controls • Calc language enhancements • New functions • For Loop • Performance • ASO in BSO Hybrid Mode (2/2) • Dim Build performance improvements (BSO) Essbase 11.1.2.3/BI 11.1.1.7 April-June 2013 What’s Next 0-12 month planning cycle Future DirectionsPost 12 month planning cycle For information purposes only, not a commitment to the development, release, and timing of any features or functionality.