Last night we decided to patch our OAC instance to the awaited 106 release for Essbase Cloud. There were actually 2 patches made available, one for Essbase Cloud and one for BI Cloud. I installed them consecutively (although you can run all patches at once since they hit different VM's - we haven't tried this … Continue reading OAC Series: Patching OAC
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OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
Access rules are a feature new to administrators in the world of PaaS. But what are they and why do you need to know about them? Are these new "rules files" for Essbase Cloud? (Nope.) Regardless of which area of OAC you're managing, you'll need to become familiar with access rules. If you are having … Continue reading OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
Please note that the following blog post contains temporary information. In patch 106 (released in mid-August 2017), Oracle added a feature to Essbase Cloud that allows customers to download their Essbase log files directly from the web interface. While troubleshooting the issue we hit last week (read the first part of that blog post here), … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
Yesterday, our team encountered an unfortunate situation. Our OAC - Essbase Cloud environment started acting "funny." We were unable to create new applications nor start existing applications. Here is what some of those error messages looked like: This was the first time we've encountered this situation in our public GA environment, so a group of … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
OAC Series: Essbase vs. EssCS
Now that Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) has been released, the Oracle EPM/BI community is eagerly trying to get up to speed on this shiny new toy. There are videos to watch (or promises of?), the Oracle formal website, and now a series of blog posts from the release day blog hop. In addition, Oracle published … Continue reading OAC Series: Essbase vs. EssCS
OAC Series: Finally released!
And today it's finally happened! Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), which includes Essbase Cloud (EssCS), Business Intelligence Cloud (BICS), and Data Visualization Cloud (DVCS) has finally been released! What is OAC? This is a bundled product suite, with different software options based on customer need. BICS and DVCS have been out for some time already, but … Continue reading OAC Series: Finally released!
OOW16: Day 5 – Conclusion & Summary
Thursday was the last day of the conference. In some ways I was sad to part from my friends and in other ways I was glad to return home. This week felt longer than your usual conference week and it seems like I've been away from home for at least a month. Today was a … Continue reading OOW16: Day 5 – Conclusion & Summary
OOW16: Day 4 – Concert Night
Breakfast + Kscope17 Planning Meetings It was a very quick sleep the night before, so I was up only a handful of hours after the previous late night. Luckily, the day started at Mel's Diner with back-to-back Kscope17 planning meetings. Mel's was the perfect breakfast joint after a night of heavy partying. Yum. Booth Duty … Continue reading OOW16: Day 4 – Concert Night
OOW16: Day 3 – Adventures in Conferencing
2MTT Video This day started off with a 2 Minute Tech Tip ("2MTT") video for OTN. This was my first one and I chose to give tips about best practices for logging Oracle EPM Cloud support cases. The video should be released after OOW. If you've never heard of them before, these 2MTT videos are … Continue reading OOW16: Day 3 – Adventures in Conferencing
OOW16: Day 2 – The Education Continues
Yikes! It's starting to get really difficult to catch up on blog posts...I find myself blogging during sessions and hoping for the best! Swim in the Bay This morning I continued my social exercise activities with the #SQLDev community. As the last part of their "OOW Triathlon" we all went and swam in the ocean. … Continue reading OOW16: Day 2 – The Education Continues
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