long time out of pocket...

I can't believe it's been 2 years since my last posting. I've been busy with 1 large Planning implementation 11.1.2.2 project for 2 years in my home city of St. Louis. So that's 2 years without getting on an airplane. While looking for my resume to update, I was kind of shocked to see how many years I've been doing hyperion. I believe I'm approaching 20. Who would have thought that this 1 multidimensional tool, essbase, would survive the pairing down from over 50 tools to less than 10.

What kinds of questions would you like addressed?

 I'll be posting about system 11.1.2.2 and some of the new or different way of doing things. We implemented in classic mode with odi. I've been burned by epma 3 years ago and I still have the scars to prove it. I have some buddies that say epma is good but I'm a little skeptical. 11.1.2.2 was the first version of planning where I couldn't find any bugs with the core functionality (I'm wondering how much a part of this was classic mode versus epma).

 hj


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books to read...

I have received a few comments asking about what books to read. Sorry to say but I cannot recommend any books because I have not handled any of them personally to recommend a book. That doesn't mean that what's out there is not good.
What makes Hyperion a bit overwhelming in the beginning is that you really need to learn 2 parts, Essbase and Hyperion Planning. To be able to build Hyperion Planning systems that will actually work you really need to have an understanding of Essbase. Once you learn Essbase, Planning will come easy. In either case, the Oracle administrator and developer documentation is available online. Before buying anything, I'd digest what's available online. Online content consists of:
-Oracle documentation
-news groups
-blogs
-web sites that google takes you to

-official Oracle documentation. There are different features depending on the version of the software you are looking at. The 2 most relevant versions now are:
Oracle (Hyperion) system 11.1.1.3 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/index.htm">

Oracle (Hyperion) system 11.1.2
-news groups
Public technical Hyperion: http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/
Public Oracle discussion for Oracle business intelligence:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=145

-web sites


-free online web sessions to discuss Hyperion topics

What is the best version of Hyperion EPM System 11 right now? 11.1.2 patched

Now that a patch has been released for 11.1.2, this would be a good time to avaluate starting your project with 11.1.2. There are some nice planning features like being able to add validation of web form submissions without performing any custom java.

I have worked on 11.1.2 on 2 projects now and have had some serious issues with the unpatched version.

As far as upgrading to 11.1.2, I would think of this as a capability of a .0 release software. Meaning, yes it says it does it but this has not been patched yet so you should not expect a perfectly seamless upgrade.

hj