Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Oracle Reports
Oracle Reports is a powerful new tool for creating reports that presents complex
financial analytic data in an easy to read, professional looking, graphical format.
The reports you create can contain many elements such as colorful charts, graphs,
and even text box objects.
Creating reports is quick and easy and objects embedded in one report can be
linked to appear in another report.
Essbase Shared Services
Essbase Shared Services or Shared Services is a component of Oracle's Essbase
Foundation Services. Shared Services is a standardized infrastructure framework
that facilitates the deployment of other Essbase System 9 components and also
simplifies the ongoing system maintenance of those components.
Shared Services provides a central framework for creating and maintaining users.
It can also be used for managing user security across all Oracle Essbase modules,
including external authentication.
One nice feature of Shared Services is that you can build your applications for easy
user ID set up and maintenance. If you are able to use external authentication or
network authentication, where Essbase allows the network to authenticate the user
ID, your password maintenance is all but eliminated and a user who has access to
the network can also access any Essbase application that you have given him or her
access to. If you plan to use Essbase authentication, the user ID is authenticated by
the Essbase analytic server at login time.
Finally, Essbase Shared Services provides the capability of managing the migration
of components from your test environments to your production environments.
You perform the development and testing in the Dev environment and then use
the Shared Services tool to copy the objects to the Prod environment.
