Groovy
Configure Financials Automatically
To all you EPM administrators out there, here’s one job you can automate, the monthly Configuration of the open periods on the Scenario dimension and setting of the “OEP_” substitution variables. One less thing to do each month end…. Save a bit of time. Basically I’ve got two scripts, the first to set the variables,…
Read MoreView Double Entry Transactions
Ever done an intercompany recharge of costs? The calculation creates the other side of the transaction and you want to see it, but the security set up prohibits you from viewing what you’ve just done. I was confronted with this paradox problem, I had a web form to input intracompany cross charges, but all I…
Read MoreCopy Version Snapshot in ASO model
Something that comes up regularly is creating a snapshot of Scenario & Version, often a copy of “Budget” “Working” into “Budget” “Final” and locking the data as read only. Data Copy in BSO In a BSO or Hybrid model it’s pretty straight forward and you’d do something as simple as this: It’s quick, simple and…
Read MoreData Extract with Ancestor Meta Data
From time to time requirements to publish meta data along with an extract come up. I recently had a requirement to produce an extract with column headers a bit like this: This was two dimensions, the bottom row is just level 0 members, the second row up is level 0 members with parents, grandparents &…
Read MoreOptimising Cost Allocations in Hybrid Essbase
How good is the Oracle EPM Hybrid Essbase for doing cost allocations? Surely it would be hampered by having to keep recalculating the total cost dynamically every time the allocation formula ran, i.e. 1000’s times to the members that you want to allocate to.
In this post I look at using an ARRAY and other options within a calculation script, leverage the power of Groovy in a combined Calculation/Groovy script and evaluate a total Groovy option in Hybrid and ASO. I uncover what doesn’t really work at all, how a basic allocation performs, and how to optimise the allocation to take the calculation time from minutes down to a few seconds, all with working code examples from my test application.
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