Just a quick post. Like the subject says, a new point release of Drillbridge is now available in the normal downloads location. Drillbridge continues to receive polish and fixes. Nothing too earth shattering this time around, just more DRILL-THROUGH AWESOMENESS:
- Queries can now be 8000 characters instead of 4000
- Custom connection settings to issue ALTER or SET commands on your database if needed
- Workflow around connections and reports improved
- Drill-through deployment improved for Planning and Financial Reporting
- Duration of report execution now logged! (Check out how long those SQL queries are taking)
- Various bugs fixed
- Polish, polish, polish
I’m really happy with this release. The codebase is looking really solid, things are working great, feedback from users has been ROCKIN (thank you Peter, Sebastien, Julien, and many others). Drillbridge is being used in French, German, Russian, and English-speaking countries, much to my amazement. I haven’t spent too much time on internationalization (making software work well in different languages and locales) but Drillbridge has some cursory support for formatting numbers and dates in a nice way, so that’s a good start. Down the road I’d like to offer Drillbridge in various languages – all in good time.
Version 1.3.2 is officially underway. As with this release, it will offer improvements, fixes, and enhancements. I have a list of about 20 things to improve that I will slowly be working through. I’ll talk about the improvements in future posts but in general they will center around enhancements to make creating drill-through reports easier, improvements to performance, aesthetics, and a couple of other tricks I have up my sleeve…
Thanks again to the literally DOZENS of people out there offering suggestions, offers to help, feedback, kind words, compliments, and more. Much to my amazement this tool has gone from a proof of concept to a labor of love to an actual bonafide deployable tool that plugs a little or not so little gap in the current Hyperion ecosystem.
Keep calm and… drill on.
I’m brand new to Hyperion and essbase, but my organization has just purchased PBCS (Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service.) Do you know if drillbridge will work with a cloud product?
Thanks
Hi Tim,
At this time it doesn’t look like Drillbridge can work with PBCS. This is largely (if not totally) to do with the fact that at present, there is no way to setup the drill definitions on PBCS. In an on-premise Essbase/Planning installation, you could use either EAS, MaxL, or the Java API to setup the drill-through definitions to point back to your relational database server. None of those options is currently available to PBCS customers. I suspect that some facility for setting these up will be available in the near to medium future, and then drill-through with Drillbridge would work just fine.