[From OTN]
This article provides an introduction to Hyperion Essbase, describing its architecture and explaining how it fits in with Oracle’s middleware and business intelligence technology stacks. Later on, you will see how easy it is to build a Hyperion Essbase multidimensional database and then connect it to Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, taking data from the Sales History sample schema that comes with most recent versions of Oracle Database.
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