Question on Essbase Licensing?

I have a interview this afternoon with a small mfg company looking to put Essbase as the reporting layer on top of their ERP system.
Does anyone know ballparkwise what a essbase license per user (they have 40 finance professionals) runs along with the software for administration module to create and maintain the essbase database?
Thanks.

You can check out the Oracle price list here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/business-intelligence-price-list-071347.pdf
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
Edited by: CL on Nov 18, 2010 3:22 PM
Whoops, sorry, the Essbase price is here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf
The docs say $2,900/named user. What that costs in the real world only your friendly Oracle sales rep can say.

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I'm sure there will be a new Master license file available then. Oracle has a policy of "lifetime" support. For those who are still on Essbase 7 by then would be able to get a new license. That said, by then your hardware and operating system will be oldand probably no longer supported.

Error message #1051287. "WARNING - 1051287 - Essbase license will expire "

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Would you happen to know if its possible for this message to be supressed? I have 130 users that access the database and I do not need this message popping up each time they log in.
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I'm assuming its a server configuration that I need to change?
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Hi,
I take it the users are not administrators, only administrators should see that message.
Another way to turn it off is in the add in option, global > Display messages > errors.
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Hi All -
I'll need some help understanding the Essbase licensing for system 9.3 & 11. I'll talk to an oracle rep on this soon, but before that I want to make sure that I understand it correctly. Any input on this would be highly appreciated.
fyi, I am not a typical infrastructure guy. I was recently invited to a client team & am trying to find out the existing licenses on the essbase server.
They are running 9.3.1, and I don't see any licensing information (nothing like .lic file, nothing in essbase.cfg folder, nothing like license directory under hyperion). When I looked at one of the xcp files in that server, I see that:
Serial Number: bbbbbb
License Expiry Date:
Port Count: 0
Ports In Use Count: 0
1. Does it mean that 9.3.1 doesn't require license file anymore? Any busniess org can use essbase 9.3 without having licenses?
2. Also, I know there is master license file in oracle website for essbase, do we need to download it in case there is no license file in server?
Now, if we want to upgrade the same v9 system to v11, I believe we must purchase licenses for every server.
3. If our server 2 CPUs X 6 cores = 12 VCPUs & 128 GB RAM; that means we need to buy essbase licenses for 6 CPUS. Is that correct?
4. If we have 200 users, how many ports or licenses we need to buy? Is the essbase license based on number of users or number of CPUs?

I hope this is the information you are looking for. I have responded based on my experience, but your situation may be different. Please check and verify with your Oracle sales rep before you do anything.
1. Does it mean that 9.3.1 doesn't require license file anymore? Any busniess org can use essbase 9.3 without having licenses?
There is no license file anymore in V9.3.1. All business organizations need license to use Essbase. I think Oracle software is free to download and learn for individuals or students on a non-commercial basis. Please read the Oracle agreement when you download software. All commercial use will have to be licensed.
2. Also, I know there is master license file in oracle website for essbase, do we need to download it in case there is no license file in server?
You do not need license file.
Now, if we want to upgrade the same v9 system to v11, I believe we must purchase licenses for every server.
3. If our server 2 CPUs X 6 cores = 12 VCPUs & 128 GB RAM; that means we need to buy essbase licenses for 6 CPUS. Is that correct?
Please use the Oracle core conversion factor table to decide if you need to buy licenses
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf
for example if your current licensing is on Intel Xeon Series 56XX with 8 CPU's (2 CPU x 4 cores) then you are effectively licensed for 8*0.5 = 4 core licenses. I dervied the 0.5 value from the core factor table.
The upgrade is part of Oracle on going maintenance so the licensing rules are still the same irrespective of the version you are in.
When you upgrade if you install on a Intel Itanium Series 95XX with 12 CPU's (2 CPU x 6 cores) then you have to buy additional 8 core licenses.
Licenses Needed = 12 * 1(core factor for Itanium) = 12
Licenses you already have = 4
Additional core Licenses you need to get = 12 - 4 = 8
We had an external third party licensing company help us understand all of this. You may want to hire somebody.
4. If we have 200 users, how many ports or licenses we need to buy? Is the essbase license based on number of users or number of CPUs?
It depends - licenses can either be by server cores or by users. If your licensing is by server core licenses then number of users does not matter. Please check with your Oracle rep or your vendor management on what type of licensing you have. For example one of our regions the licensing is by users and other regions it is by Server Cores.

Few Questions about Essbase Features

I have a few questions about Essbase. Does it support the following features-------
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http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/essbase.html
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http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/hyperion-financial-performance-management/docs/hyperion-planning-datasheet.pdf
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Richard
You have some interesting questions here - and since I do not work for Cisco my answers reflect my experience but are certainly not authoritative.
If the device is at end of sales I would guess that additional licenses are no longer available for purchase.
When devices get to end of sales it is certainly not the situation that features requiring special licensing just open up for you. If a feature required a special license and you do not have that license then the feature is just not available to you.
If you attempt to perform something that would require a license that you do not have there will be some error message. I am not sure what it would be - and may very well depend on what you are trying to do. I would suspect that many of the errors would be more like "invalid input" than a message that specifies licensing issues.
Officially the license was issued to the original purchaser and officially the purchaser can not transfer the license. But the practicality is that once installed the license is available to who ever is running the device. I am pretty sure that for PIX 501 there were not any licenses that were time based. On more recent products some licenses are permanent and some may be time based.
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Hi - I'm an Essbase and Planning developer so I don't get involved in licensing too much
I have been asked to find out about how many licenses we have for our Essbase system (how many users) - is there anywhere in the installation that I can find out ? (Essbase 11.1.2.1)
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You can check out the Oracle price list here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/business-intelligence-price-list-071347.pdf
Regards,
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Edited by: CL on Nov 18, 2010 3:22 PM
Whoops, sorry, the Essbase price is here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf
The docs say $2,900/named user. What that costs in the real world only your friendly Oracle sales rep can say.

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