What Two EPM Veterans Think About AI August 25, 2026 by Tim Faitsch I recently sat down with Kyle Goodfriend, Principal Solutions Engineer at Oracle, and Peter Nitschke, Founding Director of Pivot2 Solutions in Australia, to talk about where AI is really landing in the EPM world. The conversation ran long because there was a […]
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At the recent Kscope26 conference, Oracle showed the next generation of Essbase in several different sessions. I came away from the conference more excited about the future of Essbase than I have been in a long time. For several years, I have heard people suggest that Essbase is dead or that Oracle is no longer
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How trusted data transforms AI from interesting to indispensable. AI has quickly become part of how finance and operations teams work. It’s helping users summarize information, answer questions, identify trends, and accelerate decision-making. But one challenge remains: Can you trust the answer? Anyone using AI has likely experienced a response that sounds completely reasonable but
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I had the chance to attend the Next Generation Essbase 21.8 webinar a couple of weeks ago. Ekrem Soylemez and Ashish Jain from Oracle gave a preview of Essbase 21.8 and what the future will bring. Many forward-looking statements were made which are covered by Oracle’s standard Safe Harbor disclaimer. Essbase 21.8 is a cross-channel release and
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If you have spent any time around enterprise reporting, you know exactly where things tend to break. The numbers are fine, but the hierarchies are off. Two teams run the same report and get two different structures. A spreadsheet works beautifully in Finance and behaves mysteriously in Operations. Many times, the issue is not the
I thought about calling this post, “The Meaning of Life: Excel Edition”, as Excel has played such an important part of my life. My lifelong journey with spreadsheets began in college. Back then, I assigned portions of assignments to different members of my group and asked them to give me their work in SuperCalc format.
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I just returned, wonderfully exhausted, from an incredible experience at Kscope25. What an amazing week in Grapevine, TX! Sunday Symposiums I kicked off my conference early on Sunday morning at the Essbase symposium. I was glad for the opportunity to meet Ekrem Soylemez in person after he gave his presentation. I’m excited that Essbase is
Shared members are an amazing feature of Essbase but they seem to always present challenges and many of those are not easy to spot. A question arose on the Planning Cloud Customer Connect recently where the issue the poster was having was related to a shared member/alternate hierarchy. For some reason, it’s never immediately apparent that this
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The notion that one cannot write complex procedural calculations in ASO was disproved about 10 years ago. I spoke on the topic for the first time at Kscope15. Now that I’m getting more involved in PBCS, I wanted to see if my old tricks worked. I’m going to attempt to use an MDX function in
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Essbase 21.6 was released in August. One of the enhancements was improved performance of ASO MDX Exports. In order to use this capability, add the DATAFORMATEXPORT directive to your Export statement. It’s worth noting that this only works for exporting stored data: only Level 0 members and no calculated or formula members. This enhancement removes the limitation of 232 cells that
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