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Essbase System 9
Components
Here we are at the last chapter of this outstanding topic. It has taken ten, occasionally
long, chapters to get you to a point where you are proficient and capable in the
exciting world of Oracle Essbase.
A lot has changed with Essbase since the early days back in the 1990's. Essbase itself
has grown and flourished into the world's leading OLAP analytic software and now
includes all of the bells and whistles you'd expect and more.
The purpose of this chapter is to go over some exciting new additions to the Essbase
family. No longer is it just Essbase, the multidimensional OLAP database. The future
of Essbase, beginning with Essbase version 9.x, is now Essbase System 9.
Essbase System 9 is now a suite of analytical applications or components of which
Essbase is the cornerstone. Some of the components enhance the overall abilities of
the suite and some are targeted more to specific computing purposes.
Overview of System 9 components
When Oracle purchased Hyperion and several other companies, they set out to
organize their product catalog and bring together a standardized naming convention
as well as standardized software versioning. The Essbase suite of tools and
applications is no exception as Essbase version 9.x has become Essbase System 9,
and there never really was a commercially released Essbase version 8.x. Oracle now
has plans to further integrate the Essbase suite of tools and components into their
product catalog and we'll just need to wait and see how this plays out with version
11 and beyond.
