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A Free Form Planning aka Essbase SaaS Journey — part 4, Gonna Build An Outline

Gonna build an outline, from a little file

I’ve shown how easy it is to build an Essbase SaaS database from an existing outline .otl file. Read about my glorious experiences doing just that (and using LCM as well) here.

That’s all well and good but what if I want to do something other than migrating an outline? I thought at first that I’d have to create the smallest Essbase outline in the world ever and then import that, adding dimensions as required. Ugh. Regardless of the ugh, the ick, and the yuck, I wrote about just that approach.

I should have been more patient, because now Essbase SaaS (Have you noted that I call this product what it is – Essbase as a Service? You should.) can load from dimension files. Patience is a virtue but he who hesitates (or wants to write about something most ricky tick) is lost. I suppose that means that I am without virtue because I don’t hesitate to act before knowledge mysteriously comes my way. It was ever thus with Yr. Obt. Svt. But no matter, onwards.

Gonna build an outline, at least I hope I will

I have a

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cameronl Dodeca, Essbase, Oracle, Planning 2 Comments 28 April, 202028 April, 2020 7 Minutes

RSS The bright shiny new episode of EPM Conversations

  • EPM Conversations — Episode No. 8, A Conversation with Tom Shea, CEO of OneStream Software 6 April, 2021 Cameron Lackpour
  • EPM Conversations – Episode No. 7, A Conversation With Kevin Lawrence, Marketing Analytics, Corporate to Guerilla 16 March, 2021 Cameron Lackpour
  • EPM Conversations — Episode No. 6, A Conversation With Mike Nader, EPM’s Very Own Data Analytics Polymath 4 February, 2021 Cameron Lackpour
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  • EPM Conversations – Episode No. 4, a conversation with John Booth 8 December, 2020 Cameron Lackpour
  • EPM Conversation – A Conversation With Abhi Nerurkar, Co-Founder of EPMware 17 November, 2020 Cameron Lackpour
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