What this book covers
Chapter 1 guides you through a typical Essbase installation which includes the Essbase Agent on an analytic server, the Essbase API on the server, the Essbase Administration Services, and the Essbase Add-in for Microsoft Excel.
Chapter 2 covers Essbase database design considerations and how to apply them to a multidimensional database as opposed to the traditional row and column relational database.
Chapter 3 we begin to build in Essbase (hooray!). Using the information learned in the previous chapter we build the Essbase outline which is the foundation of the Essbase database. Instead of rows and columns an Essbase database contains dimensions and members in a hierarchical parent-child structure.
Chapter 4 dives right into ...
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