ABSTRACT
A recent major change is a hardware appliance featuring Essbase called Exalytics, which Oracle announced at OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco. e product is so new there is little hands-on experience. Exalytics is an integrated soware and hardware platform featuring in-memory Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (of which Essbase is one component). e product brief reads like a piece of dream hardware for any infrastructure geek. A side benet is that an appliance like this is as close to “plug it in and go” as you can get. It is built such that it can deal with extremely rich data sets and/ or thousands of users. Due to the anticipated price, only large corporations have deep enough pockets to purchase the equipment. As time goes on, perhaps they will turn this into a scalable (lowering entry cost) solution rather than the one size ts all appliance it is today.
