Hi all,
Yesterday there was the Oracle’s Webcast “Introducing Version 12c for Oracle Data Integration”. Since our first impression was not so good, we decided to participate in this webcast to see if we could find some new information that would change our minds. Everything was fine as Oracle representatives were talking about the nice new cool features, in especially for Oracle Golden Gate that is more integrated with ODI then never and it actually looks really nice. But then there was one question from someone in the audience that caught our eyes:
Can I integrate this with Hyperion and Discoverer?
“ODI 12c is integrated with OBIEE at the metadata level, we provide capabilities such as report to source data lineage. Hyperion connectivity to applications such as Planning or Financial Management will come in future versions of ODI 12c”
ODI 12c does not support Hyperion. What? What do you mean? At first I thought that something was wrong. Maybe the guy who answered the question did not get it or misunderstood it, so I asked a question:
In one of the answers, you said the following: “Hyperion connectivity to applications such as Planning or Financial Management will come in future versions of ODI 12c.” Does it mean that ODI 12c does not have any more Hyperion Planning KMs for example?
“We are planning on adding support for Hyperion applications in a future release of ODI 12c.”
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. They have done great enhancements on ODI to better support Golden Gate, Big Data, parallel executions, debugger, security stuff BUT they removed Hyperion support from ODI 12c. They just removed. In my last attempt to see if they were not misunderstanding me, I asked again almost the same question:
We work with ODI 11g integrating several Hyperion products, such as Essbase, Planning and HFM. Does it mean that we are not able to migrate to ODI 12c for now?
“We will be adding support for Hyperion applications in future releases of ODI 12c. For now you can still continue to work with ODI 11g when Hyperion connectivity is a requirement.”
Well, that was it. Oracle has stated for all presents there that ODI 12c does not fit to EPM users. They have removed a key functionality from its main ETL product. Do you work with Hyperion? Please, just sit on the corner and wait for some next release. There is no more to say about it. Uninstalling it right now and pretend that Oracle did not launch ODI 12c.
DEV EPM 