
Essbase Currency Conversion
Essbase Currency Conversion translates, analyzes, and reports on foreign financial data. Any
exchange rate scenario can be modeled, and you can even perform ad hoc currency conversions
of data, directly from the spreadsheet. The Currency Conversion product is compliant with
Financial Accounting Standards Board 52 (FASB52). For more information on conversions, see
“Working with Currency Conversions” on page 155.
Integration Services
Oracle's Essbase® Integration Services works with Essbase and Microsoft Excel. This product is
a suite of tools and data integration services that serve as a bridge between relational, flat file,
and SAP BW data sources and Essbase Server. Integration Server drill-through is one of the tools
of Integration Services. Using Integration Server drill-through, you can view and customize
spreadsheet reports that display data retrieved from relational databases. For more information
on the drill-through tool, see Chapter 5, “Using Drill-Through.”
Developer Products
Essbase developer products enable the rapid creation, management and deployment of tailored
enterprise analytic applications—with or without programming knowledge.
The products (for example, Application Builder, and Oracle's Hyperion® Application
Builder.NET) provide a comprehensive set of application programming interfaces, drag and
drop components and services.
Data Mining
Data Mining—an optional product component of Essbase—shows you hidden relationships
and patterns in your data, enabling you to make better business decisions. Using Data Mining
you can plug in various data mining algorithms, build models, and then apply them to existing
Essbase applications and databases.
The Multidimensional Database
The Essbase multidimensional database stores and organizes data. It is optimized to handle
applications that contain large amounts of numeric data and that are consolidation-intensive
or computation-intensive. In addition, the database organizes data in a way that reflects how
the user wants to view the data.
Definition of Multidimensional
A dimension is a perspective or view of a specific dataset. A different view of the same data is
an alternate dimension. A system that supports simultaneous, alternate views of datasets is
multidimensional. Dimensions are typically categories such as time, accounts, product lines,
The Multidimensional Database
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