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Oracle Essbase 9
Implementation Guide
Develop high-performance multidimensional analytic
OLAP solutions with Oracle Essbase
Sarma Anantapantula
Joseph Sydney Gomez
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Oracle Essbase 9 Implementation Guide
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Authors
Sarma Anantapantula
Joseph Sydney Gomez
Reviewers
Shekar Kadur
Venkatakrishnan J.
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Development Editor
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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 (
),
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 xes. He has a x 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

Joseph Sydney Gomez has been an Essbase developer, designer, and
administrator for almost 10 years. Originally educated as a Graphic Designer in the
eld of Computer Graphics Technology, Joe took a job as a mainframe Y2K bug xer
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,
shing, bicycle riding, and photography. To ll 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.
Joe can be reached at

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About the Reviewer
Shekar Kadur has over 23 years experience in Information Systems specically
managing complete system development life cycle of projects involving Databases,
Data warehousing, Business Intelligence, OLAP, SAP, and Enterprise Management
Reporting applications in the automotive, nance, utility, retail, and health
care industries.
He is a certied PMP (Project Management Professional), a certied Hyperion
instructor and a consultant procient with all Oracle and Hyperion toolsets
(Essbase, Planning). He is extremely procient 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 . He is well known
for his custom integration techniques across different toolsets. He has over 7 years
of Oracle Business Intelligence experience.

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