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Advanced Essbase Solutions
How US-Analytics implemented sophisticated Essbase solutions to solve complex customer
Analytical requirements
“Focused and Committed”• Focused on Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing, and Analytical applications
• Texas-based for over 11 years• 50+ Professionals• Oracle Platinum Partner• Seasoned, Professional, former Oracle / Siebel / Hyperion consultants with market leading OBIEE, BI Applications, Hyperion Applications, and Essbase (BSO & ASO) knowledge and experience
• Internal Infrastructure practice • Strong Project leadership & proactive Account management• Full Service Solution provider with extensive post-implementation support capabilities and offerings
Performance Applications– Design and development of BI & DWH solutions– Design and development of EPM solutions
Operational Infrastructure– Infrastructure design and installation services
• Change management, disaster recovery, load balancing, fail-over
Continuity Services– Specialized Placement Services– Managed Service Programs
• Application Support/Outsourcing• Technical Support/Outsourcing
– Education/Mentoring/”Expert-on-site”– Software re-sell
Utilities
• Large Data Volume• Complex Modeling with Input.
Manufacturing
• Complex Dimension Structure• Allocation Needs
Retail
• Very Large Data Volume• Short Data Windows
ADVANCED ESSBASE SOLUTIONS
Title
Large Utilities Company
• Largest natural-gas-only distributer in the US
• Industry: Gas Utilities
• Employees: ~5,000
• Revenue: US$4.65 billion
• Customers: 3.2 million
• Operations: 1,600 Communities in 12 States
Title
Large Utilities Company – The Problem
Regulatory Lag – is defined as the time a regulatory commission requires to rule on a utility's request for a rate increase
The longer the length of time between capital outlay by a utility, and the time they can start to recover / recoup that capital outlay, the more of the capital cost they have to absorb. Therefore, the ability to adjust and prepare their capital cost structure for regulatory rate review directly impacts profitability.
Title
Large Utilities Company – The Problem
• Operating in 12 different States presents a challenge
• Minimizing regulatory lag demands responsiveness to 12 different State regulatory bodies with different rules on capital cost
• Changing regulations requires ability to be flexible in the definition of, allocation of, various capital costs
• The process to modify capital cost data was manually intensive and a time-consuming maintenance hassle
Title
Large Utilities Company – The Solution
• Huge Excel spreadsheets connected to a 36-hour to re-calculate, read-only Essbase database
• US-Analytics developed a hybrid BSO/ASO Essbasesolution with full read/write, down to less than 3 minutes calculation time
• US-Analytics converted 7 BSO models that consumed hundreds of GB of disk and took over 100 hours to process… End result 1 hour to process all 7 models, less than 5GB of disk space
Title
Manufacturing Company
• Leading manufacturer of pet products
• Oracle EBS shop with lots of Discoverer reports and Excel reports
• 10+ years of sales and cost data in “data warehouse”
• Need for Margin reporting and analysis
• Lots of dimensions, complex calculations
Title
Manufacturing Company – The Solution
• ASO cube for operational analysis
• 11 dimensions
• 6 attribute demensions
• 10 years of data
• Customer, sku, and day granularity
Title
Manufacturing Company
• Custom allocations in 11.1.1.3 with just report scripts and MDX
• Use of the new System 11 clear region functions for incremental loads
• Quick query response
• Reduction of reporting process from days to minutes
Title
Retail Company
• Leading specialty retailer
• Early ASO customer (7.x!)
• Attributes not being leveraged
• Terabytes of detailed data
• Critically tight production windows
Title
Retail Company – The Solution
• New 64-bit server with 32 cores and 256gb of RAM
• Upgrade to 11.1.2 from 9.2.x
• Tuning of aggregation processes to increase default configuration performance by 40%
• Prototype of new cube design leveraging more dimensions and attribute dimensions
• Daily processes reduced from over an hour to 15 minutes