Improve web form performance of Hyperion Planning

Question

Hi all,
I am not sure whether anyone has tried the recommended method from Oracle to compress the web forms used in Hyperion Planning so as to improve the network perfromance?
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12032_01/doc/epm.921/html_hp_admin/frameset.htm?/docs/cd/E12032_01/doc/epm.921/html_hp_admin/hpamin-19-17.htm
Slow Performance When Opening Data Forms Using a Dial-Up Connection
Scenario:
Opening a data form using a slow network connection (for example, with a modem) takes a long time.
Solution:
You can significantly increase the network bandwidth when opening data forms by modifying the web.xml file, as described in this section. This solution compresses by approximately 90% the data stream sent from the Planning server to the client.
Note: If you are using a WebLogic (all supported versions) Web application server, complete the second procedure, which is specific to WebLogic. If you are using any other Web application server, complete the first procedure, which contains general instructions.
To modify the web.xml file to improve performance, for any Web application server except WebLogic:
1 With a text editor, open the web.xml file, located in HyperionPlanning.ear or HyperionPlanning.war.
2 After the tag </description> and before the tag <listener>, insert the following lines:
<filter>
<filter-name>HspCompressionFilter</filter-name> <filter-
class>com.hyperion.planning.HspCompressionFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>compressionThreshold</param-name>
<param-value>2048</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>1</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HspCompressionFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/EnterData.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
3 Save the web.xml file.
If you are using WebLogic, you must manually modify the .ear file and redeploy it for the Web application server.
To improve performance with a WebLogic application server:
1 Unzip the HyperionPlanning.ear file to C\:ear, for example.
2 Unzip Hyperion.war under C:\ear to C:\war.
3 With a text editor, open the C:war\WEB-INF\web.xml file and modify it using the instructions in step 2 in the preceding procedure.
4 Compress the content in C:\war to C:\ear\HyperionPlanning.war.
5 Compress the content in C:\ear into C:ear\HyperionPlanning.ear
6 Deploy the new HyperionPlanning.ear for the WebLogic Web application server.

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes we did this with a bank which had branches connected to the servers via dial-up. They were complaining about the amount of data being transferred in between branches and servers. This has worked well over there and increased the data transfer performance considerably. However, nowadays the performance bottlenecks are not generally due to the amount of data being transferred over the network but the javascript components that should run on client and heavy calculation/data and report creation processes.
Cheers,
Alp