The I.T. Side

My Favorite Version 11 Infrastructure related features:

• Planning data source creation moved to workspace
  • No longer do you have to launch the config tool on the server to create a planning data source.
• Essbase Archive Logging
  • It’s about time.  With version 11, you can replay and undo transactions with archive logging.  The best part:  point-in-time recovery of Essbase.
• Integrated Installer with diagnostics
  • It’s nice to see more attention to the installation process.  We no longer need to be concerned with installation order.
• Life Cycle Management.
  • Finally a working tool to promote objects from Dev->Test-> Production.  It even has a command line interface so you can script a data refresh processes.
• Free Stuff!
  • Oracle is not offering Weblogic and Oracle Clusterware for free if you use it exclusively with the EPM product.  Saves a ton of cash and you get an enterprise class web application server.
• Linux and 64-bit support
  • I’m excited to see Oracle become more Linux aware. We are now seeing many more products supporting Linux, making EPM an affordable solution for even the smallest of shops.
• Better OBIEE integration.
  • It’s clear that this is the strategic direction.

Things that still bother me:

• Not all products have been ported to Linux / Unix
  • We still have the need to use windows for some things.
• 64-bit not really 64-bit?
  • installation can be problematic on some products.  Even though the docs say 64-bit is supported, many of the compiled binaries are still 32-bit.
• Oracle Support
  • Support is still quite challenging.

~ by Eric Helmer on July 5, 2009.

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