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    I am a senior development manager working for Oracle BI Applications development. My job involves the common area, including data warehouse modeling and dimension conformance. I was involved in Oracle E-Business Suite Financial Architecture, Oracle Customer Hub, and Oracle Fusion Projects product development in the past. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own and do not reflect the position of Oracle.

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Archive for December, 2007

Essbase and IBM DB2

Posted by Dylan Wan on December 27, 2007

I read an interesting article, “IBM DB2–Minus OLAP” from the SQL Server magazine. Essbase used to be OEM-ed and re-branded by IBM as IBM DB2 OLAP server for ten years. The relationship stopped two yeas ago.
Many DB2 customers actually built their custom analytics applications on the top of Essbase.

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BI Applications and Embedded BI, Part 2

Posted by Dylan Wan on December 5, 2007

This is a topic I wrote in six month ago. In the Part I of this series of articles, I mentioned that a warehouse like architecture is required in a heterogeneous environment. I want to elaborate more about this. In the future posts, I will also describe the integration technology I learned for supporting the embedded BI.

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