Essbase Cloud Service Released!

March 17, 2017
Posted by Jun on

 

March 17th, 2017, Oracle finally released Essbase Cloud Service (EssCS). EssCS is part of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). I do remember the first time I heard of EssCS that was during Oracle Open World 2015. After such a long time waiting, EssCS is finally here. It is a very exciting moment!

 

 

Oracle Analytics Cloud

If you are coming from the on-premises Hyperion world, you may not very familiar about Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). It is a bundled product suite, a comprehensive analytics platform that powers your analytics strategy at any scale, in every environment – cloud, premises, desktop, and data center. OAC provides everything you need to ask any question of any data, on any device, at any time – so you can get the value you expect from analytics.

 

 

Currently, OAC includes the following services:

Essbase Cloud Service is a new service. Other services have been already released for a while.

Oracle Analytics Cloud has the following properties:

  • Standard version and Enterprise version, Enterprise version has cross environment partitions and drill-through
  • Offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Unlimited applications and users
  • User admin controls updates and backups
  • Subscription based
  • Users can choose how many CPUs they want
  • Increase or decrease capacity on the fly

 

Essbase Cloud Service

EssCS is not just the cloud version of the on-premises Essbase. There is no Essbase Administration Services (EAS) coming with EssCS. The administration process will be managed in the web interface and in the new excel add-in, Cube Designer.

 

Analytics Cloud – Essbase:

 

Excel add-in – Cube Designer:

 

Essbase Cloud Service has the following properties:

  • Based on Essbase 12c
  • Supports ASO, BSO, and fully functional advanced analytic Engine (Hybrid) cubes
  • New LCM utility for migrating on-premises cubes to the cloud
  • Ability to create lightweight sandboxes, which only store changes, can run calculations against them
  • RESTful APIs are available for process automation

 

In general, the EssCS is in its early days.  I am a huge fan of this service and I believe there will be more enhancement functions added into EssCS in the near future. The future for EPM and database belong to Cloud. Essbase Cloud Service is the future. I will publish more detail functions about EssCS in the future blogs.

 

 

 

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