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ASO Planning: Don’t Do That; Do This
Topic: Planning
Owner: Cameron Lackpour
Date: 2014-06-29
Subtopic: Best Practices

Making the switch, or not
_Will ASO Planning solve your Big BSO Planning app’s problems?
_What do you need to know about ASO Planning to make that switch?
What is ASO Planning?
_Not an ASO reporting database, although you can still do that
_An optional direct engine for Planning
Why ASO?
__When is ASO a good fit?
__When is BSO a good fit?
_Differences between BSO and ASO
__BSO vs. ASO
___Kernel
___Storage
___Calculations
____BSO calc scripts vs. MDX
____ASO calc scripts – can they be executed via Calc Mgr?
_Outer Limits
__Dimensions
__Forms
__Calcs
_ASO Planning limitations
__EPMA vs. Classic
What do you need to know about ASO Essbase to make ASO Planning work?
_Bitmap vs. blocks
_Stored calcs vs. dynamic formulas
_Designing for the bitmap
_The irrelevancy of interdimensional irrelevancy
_Designing for dynamic calcs
__Philosophy and why it will set you free
__Making the move to MDX
__Solve order
Common Planning calculations in ASO
_Aggregations
_Allocations
_Currency conversion
_Rate calculations
Maintaining ASO Planning
_Backups
_Slices
_Outline compaction
Coexisting and exploiting BSO Plan Types
_Do X in BSO, Y in ASO
_The best ASO reporting cube there ever was
Making the switch, or not
_With all we now know, is your app a good fit?
__Common characteristics
__When is this a Bad Idea?


Download File   CLackpour.ASOPlanning.pdf
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