See how customers and product experts use Dodeca.

Tim TowSeptember 25, 2026

AI seems to be part of every conversation in the software world these days, and quite a few conversations outside of it. The technology is moving fast, and companies everywhere are trying to figure out what it means for their business and how they can put it to work. We have been asking those same questions about Dodeca.

September 17, 2026

Tim Tow demonstrates the AI chat component within Dodeca.

September 16, 2026

Too many projects, too many asks, and not enough visibility — sound familiar? Kroger's financial systems team was juggling 40–50 projects across spreadsheets, decks, and documents, with no audit trail, no standard documentation, and no way to tell executives where anything stood. The obvious answer was another enterprise project management tool. They chose a different path: they used what they already had.

Tim FaitschAugust 26, 2026

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 lot to talk about. We barely scratched the surface but I want to cover what stood out to me.

August 19, 2026

AI is everywhere—but where is it truly making a difference in Enterprise Performance Management? Join Peter Nitschke from Pivot2 Solutions, Kyle Goodfriend from Oracle, and Tim Faitsch from Dodeca, for a candid panel discussion as they separate hype from reality and explore how AI is shaping the future of EPM.

Tim TowAugust 6, 2026

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.

Tim TowJuly 28, 2026

How trusted data transforms AI from interesting to indispensable.

July 16, 2026

Kscope 2026 brought together Oracle users, experts, and technology leaders to explore what's next for AI, Oracle EPM, and Essbase. If you couldn't attend—or simply want to hear the highlights—we'd love to have you join us.

April 21, 2026

Most organizations rely on spreadsheets, but struggle with control, scalability, and trust in the numbers.

March 13, 2026

Join Tim Faitsch, Technical Solutions Director, as he discusses and demonstrates the spreadsheet dilemma and how source data, including Oracle EMP Cloud, can be used within Dodeca to give the control to your organization needs and desires.

January 23, 2026

Spreadsheets remain the most versatile and widely used interface for accessing and analyzing data from Oracle Cloud EPM - including Planning, Freeform Planning, Consolidation, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting, and Essbase. Whether you utilize Oracle Smart View or Dodeca, this session will provide actionable insights into how spreadsheets interact with underlying databases and how to design workbooks that are faster, more efficient, easier to maintain, and fully auditable. Uncover strategies and techniques that elevate your spreadsheet-based processes, driving greater accuracy, efficiency, and scalability in Oracle EPM and Essbase workflows.

Tim FaitschJanuary 7, 2026

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.

Tim TowDecember 29, 2025

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 data. It is the metadata behind it.

Tim TowOctober 9, 2025

I thought about calling this post, “The Meaning of Life: Excel Edition”, as Excel has played such an important part of my life.

Tim FaitschJuly 11, 2025

I just returned, wonderfully exhausted, from an incredible experience at Kscope25. What an amazing week in Grapevine, TX!

Tim FaitschJune 16, 2025

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.

Tim FaitschJune 16, 2025

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 was previously an issue for ASO MDX exports. If you previously had to break up MDX exports to get around this limit, this should fix that. Apparently it also adds support for duplicate member outlines. The example the documentation gives is super interesting because it includes a property, STORED_FLAG, that I don’t recall ever seeing before. This property allows you to filter on stored members. The property isn’t listed in the documented MDX Properties. I tried using it in some older Essbase versions and it did work so it’s probably been available for a while. Below is the example given in the documentation:

Tim FaitschJune 16, 2025

Shared members are an amazing feature of Essbase but they seem to always present challenges and many of those are not easy to spot.

Jason JonesJune 16, 2025

I will presenting at Kscope25 this year. Usually I present on an established technology or feature, such as how to use the Essbase REST API, advanced drill-through techniques, or containerizing Essbase with Docker. But this year I really wanted to look forward, not back, and what better way than to talk about the intersection of Essbase with AI? The full title of my presentation is From Cubes to Cognition: The Fusion of Essbase and AI.

Tim FaitschMay 27, 2025

During a recent collaboration session with a customer, our team demonstrated how Dodeca can be leveraged to create a highly flexible and user-friendly solution for managing account-level supporting detail, tailored specifically to customer requirements. The discussion and walkthrough provided a great example of how Dodeca enables business users to work efficiently with Essbase data, integrating it with SQL data.

May 15, 2025

Victor Turner, Senior Director of Financial Systems Administration from LexisNexis explains how they found even more reporting efficiency using Dodeca. They initially had 280 days in savings that has grown to 1,682 days savings a Quarter with Dodeca. Join Victor and be inspired!

Jason JonesApril 4, 2025

The latest release notes for the connector can be found on the Dodeca PBCS/EPM Connector section of the Applied OLAP documentation site. This bug fix release resolves some issues with ad hoc operations such as when zooming in and using suppress missing, and when the navigate without data option is turned on. Overall retrieve performance was significantly improved in the 1.7 line due to being able to use the suppress missing option when making the “export data slice” call to the Oracle EPM Cloud REST API, resulting generally in smaller retrieves.

February 13, 2025

Join Tim Faitsch to learn about Dodeca Software (formerly Applied Olap) and leveraging you EPM cloud investment with Dodeca and Drillbridge.

September 26, 2023

Kroger is utilizing a suite of Dodeca reports to track various Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) across several teams. Dodeca allows for easy updating of Team, Manager and Controller information as well as individual KPI metrics and thresholds. Additional output reports graph individual and team results and allow for user comments to explain deviations. This collection of reports effectively replaced approximately 50 individual linked Excel workbooks and considerably reduced maintenance requirements. Presented in 2023.

September 26, 2023

This presentation delves into LexisNexis' best practices for input forms, offering insights and strategies to enhance your Dodeca implementation. The following key topics will be explored: deleting rows, controlling security, data validations, sorting, filtering, pushing consolidated data to the base level and handling protected sheets. Presented in 2023.

September 26, 2023

See how Deckers Brands found insights and efficiencies in the roll out of Dodeca,

September 26, 2023

Kroger is using a new Dodeca tool to help automate the Budget & Forecast process for our Manufacturing team. By creating a new user friendly tool we have allowed users to expand the scope of their budget process. We have completely eliminated any manual input and work on our end that users relied on, we now have given the power back to them. Presented in 2023.

September 23, 2021

74% of GE Dodeca applications are Essbase based. The opportunity for performance improvement made us excited for the version 8 release of Dodeca. In general, a better user experience was also part of the features we were eager to have. We also wanted additional functionality to help our DevOps operations in developing, testing, and maintaining our code. During this session, Alberto Rodriguez will share details of the testing and deployment plan for Dodeca 8. Presented in 2021.

September 23, 2021

Join Noah Saxton for a walkthrough of Kroger’s efforts to rewrite their financial and accounting support reporting. See how Kroger leveraged Dodeca toolbars and drill through with Essbase and SQL to improve the user experience for senior executives. Presented in 2021.

September 22, 2021

Every company needs to present to upper management about the reasons for variances in forecasts and year over year changes. With the help of Dodeca, Belcan is able to put together a ”Walks Report” that explains variances while providing an intuitive data entry process and centralized environment for all walks commentary. This has all been made possible with the event driven scripting inside of Dodeca and the ability to have multiple data connections on a report. If you would like to be able to run with your walks, then join us as we present our process and share the details of capturing all the different inputs that come from users. Presented in 2021.

September 22, 2021

Over the last several years, the Gas Power FP&A team at GE has focused on process transformation, standardization and optimization. A major milestone in our journey has been the digitization of the daily and weekly forecasting cycles using Dodeca. This session will showcase how GE sunset spreadsheet-based processes by blending relational and OLAP solutions. This provides users with the ability to go from aggregated data to detailed transactions while collecting variance commentary across the organization. Over time, the application has continued to evolve and we have recently implemented several exciting self-service functionalities. These allow users to perform roll-forwards, open/close of periods, and more without any IT support. Join us to learn how Dodeca has provided a central platform for harnessing transactional data, capturing user inputs and delivering consistent reporting to improve visibility, accuracy and efficiencies across the Gas Power landscape. Presented in 2021.

September 22, 2021

This session will showcase how the GE team is building a library of reusable components. These enable engineers across the team to save time getting up-to-speed and assist in delivering a polished, finished product that functions as intended! Presented in 2021.

September 22, 2021

In Q1 of 2021 LexisNexis conservatively estimated a 280-day savings as a result of their implementation of over 185 Dodeca standard tools and reports. See how they are using Dodeca with SQL Server and on-prem versions of Hyperion Essbase, Planning, PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials to provide more data, faster and with a higher quality, allowing their Finance Function to be a better partner to the business. Presented in 2021. Be sure to watch their presentation their follow up presentation - Enhancing Reporting Efficiency from 280 Days in Savings to 1682 Days a Quarter with Dodeca!