Advanced  Essbase Solutions

How  US-­Analytics  implemented  sophisticated  Essbase solutions  to  solve  complex  customer  

Analytical   requirements

PROFESSIONAL  SERVICES

“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

Utilities

• Large  Data  Volume•Complex  Modeling  with  Input.

ADVANCED  ESSBASE  SOLUTIONS

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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

Manufacturing

•Complex  Dimension  Structure•Allocation  Needs

ADVANCED  ESSBASE  SOLUTIONS

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

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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

Retail

• Very  Large  Data  Volume•Short  Data  Windows

ADVANCED  ESSBASE  SOLUTIONS

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

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Q&A

PROFESSIONAL  SERVICES