You can easily deploy Essbase and associated tools when installing Oracle Business Intelligence and benefit from using shared administration, user management, installation, and configuration support functionality that is also available to Oracle Business Intelligence users.
When you deploy Essbase with Oracle Business Intelligence, you can access Essbase multidimensional databases that provide multidimensional analysis, enabling rapid development of custom analytic applications. Essbase enables you to develop and manage analytic applications that model complex scenarios, forecast business trends, and perform "what-if" analyses. Essbase supports fast query response times using pre-aggregated dimensions, for large numbers of users, for large data sets, and for complex business models. Essbase can be configured to use with a range of data sources.
Essbase Studio and EAS can be deployed by the 11g EPM installer in a separate domain, and can be used with the 12c Essbase server installed through Oracle Business Intelligence.
This chapter includes information about installing, configuring, managing and securing Essbase installed through Oracle Business Intelligence as well as creating, securing, and accessing Essbase databases using Oracle Business Intelligencee.
This chapter does not describe using Essbase when installed with the EPM System Installer. For information about using Essbase and associated tools when installed with the EPM System Installer, see the EPM System deployment documentation, located on the Deployment and Installation tab in the EPM System Documentation Library.
For information on which guide to refer to for information about Essbase and associated tools, when installed with Oracle Business Intelligence, see Performing Tasks When Essbase Is Installed with Oracle BI EE Compared to Performing the Same Tasks in EPM and Information on Which Guides to Consult.
Any other use of Essbase in the context of being used as a data source for Oracle Business Intelligence should leverage an EPM deployment of Essbase and related tools from 11g (see the EPM deployment guides). In future releases the role of Essbase deployed through Oracle Business Intelligence will expand. Therefore Oracle recommends installing the Essbase software to avoid future challenges with expanding the BI Domain. For more information, see Understanding Essbase Deployed in BI 12.2.1 in Oracle Essbase Database Administrator's Guide.