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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide Develop high-performance multidimensional analytic OLAP solutions with Oracle Essbase Sarma Anantapantula Joseph Sydney Gomez... Oracle Essbase 9 I

Oracle Essbase 9

Implementation Guide

Develop high-performance multidimensional analytic

OLAP solutions with Oracle Essbase

Sarma Anantapantula

Joseph Sydney Gomez

Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide

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Authors

Sarma Anantapantula

Joseph Sydney Gomez

Reviewers

Shekar Kadur

Venkatakrishnan J.

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About the Authors

Sarma Anantapantula currently works as an Essbase Consultant in the OLAP

Center of Excellence at the Ford Motor Company He has over 11 years of experience

in the Software industry as a developer, designer, and administrator and has worked

in various technologies involving client-server architecture, and Data Warehousing projects (tools like HOLOS and Essbase) Sarma also has expertise in web interface

development (with both Microsoft and J2EE)

Sarma is a board member of the Hyperion User Group (http://www.hug-mi.org),

and has presented on how Essbase is implemented at the Ford Motor Company

He has also published an article on "Executing DTS Packages from ASP" in ASP Today Sarma is well known for his magic fixes He has a fix for any kind of issue in any

technology In his free time, Sarma likes to spend time answering new technology

questions in user forums If he is not in front of computer, he will be playing ping

pong or chess with family and friends He also likes listening to The Beatles, and

reading English novels Sarma is known for being ever smiling and friendly, and

can be reached at sarmaa@gmail.com

Joseph Sydney Gomez has been an Essbase developer, designer, and

administrator for almost 10 years Originally educated as a Graphic Designer in the field of Computer Graphics Technology, Joe took a job as a mainframe Y2K bug fixer and the rest is history

Joe currently works as an Essbase technical specialist and is his company's OLAP

Center of Excellence lead Not a complete computer geek, Joe also enjoys basketball, fishing, bicycle riding, and photography To fill out the picture, Joe does volunteer

work at a senior citizen apartment and occasionally takes free-lance design jobs

Oh yes, Joe has a special interest in collecting antique glass telegraph insulators

About the Reviewer

Shekar Kadur has over 23 years experience in Information Systems specifically

managing complete system development life cycle of projects involving Databases,

Data warehousing, Business Intelligence, OLAP, SAP, and Enterprise Management

Reporting applications in the automotive, finance, utility, retail, and health

care industries

He is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional), a certified Hyperion

instructor and a consultant proficient with all Oracle and Hyperion toolsets

(Essbase, Planning) He is extremely proficient in project/program management of

applications using Oracle, Hyperion, SAP, SAPBW, Business Objects, and Web-based technologies He has consulted, deployed, and managed IT projects in Ford Motor

Company, Ford Motor Credit Corporation (Ford Credit), General Motors, Daimler

Chrysler Financial Corporation, Daimler Chrysler, Consumers Energy, Guardian

Industries, Oakwood Health Systems, General Dynamics, Management Technologies Inc, TRW, Constellation Brands Inc, Johnson Controls Inc, Deloitte Consulting, and

Capgemini Inc

He has delivered lectures on Data Warehousing, Datamarts, Oracle, and Hyperion

toolset in Michigan, USA, and London, UK

Venkatakrishnan J is a well-known Oracle Business Intelligence expert who has

diverse customer implementation experience He has contributed over 350 technical articles through his blog http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com He is well known for his custom integration techniques across different toolsets He has over 7 years

of Oracle Business Intelligence experience