Components and Terminology

Oracle Essbase incorporates powerful architectural features to handle a wide range of analytic applications across large multi-user environments. This offering of Essbase is available as part of independent deployments as a powerful platform with robust new features.

Architecture — Essbase architecture includes a middle-tier platform that runs on WebLogic. This Fusion Middleware architecture enables fast performance, optimized memory usage, high concurrency, flexible deployment options, and failover. The Essbase utilizes Oracle Database and/or your choice of supported relational database to store Essbase schemas.

Security — In Essbase On-Premise installations, all data can be encrypted in transit layer using Transport Layer Security (TLS). For user authentication, you can choose WebLogic Embedded LDAP in conjunction with your choice of external authentication provider, or if you use EPM Shared Services security, you can continue to use it.

Connectivity — With Essbase APIs, you can use TLS for secure connectivity both internally between components and externally with other applications. You can connect from any software using Essbase Runtime Client (RTC) over secure HTTP without needing to open additional TCP/IP ports to enable client connectivity.

Failover — In Essbase 11g On-Premise, Provider Services enabled failover leasing managed through OPMN. Now, failover is integrated with WebLogic to support a central request leasing system that determines which node is active and which are on standby.

Configuration — Most configuration parameters you need for application tuning should be set per application. You also have control of the system-wide configuration defaults in authentication file, if needed.

Essbase Administration Services Lite — Although Essbase has a modern administration interface and platform features, you can use Essbase Administration Services (EAS) lite as an option for continued management of your applications. It offers the same EAS functionality that you had in Essbase 11g, and is available for a limited time, to assist with your adoption of the new administration interface.

Logging — Logs are in Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) format. You can download log files from Essbase, and use Performance Analyzer to analyze Essbase logs to generate usage and performance statistics.