OBIEE - Essbase / HFM

Hi All,
This might be a very basic question. We are looking at purchasing OBIEE for our Oracle ERP reporting needs and we also want to eventually have Essbase and HFM data within OBIEE.
I am a bit confused on whether or not I need to import my Essbase cubes into OBIEE in order to use it or if it can remain outside of OBIEE and still be a datasource. And if you can do both, what are the pros and cons of storing it within OBIEE as opposed to having it sit outside. My understanding was that I had to physically build the Essbase cubes within OBIEE in order to use that data so, in essence, I would have Essbase stored twice; once in its regular cubes and once as another set of tables within OBIEE. But I have heard otherwise as well. Some clarification would be great.
Does the same go for HFM? Stored twice?
Much Appreciated,
Mike

Hi Mike,
You will not need to import your Essbase cubes into OBIEE. OBIEE does not store data anywhere, it only acts as a query engine based on the metadata information you provide. This means that when OBIEE needs to show data from your Essbase cubes, it will connect to Essbase and directly query the cube.
The only data stored in OBIEE is when it caches results, but this is done internally in OBIEE.
Regarding HFM, OBIEE can also connect to HFM as a data source.
Regards,
Henrik

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