Oracle Essbase 21.8 marks a new milestone in enterprise analytics. It streamlines collaboration, adds AI-capabilities, and delivers powerful tools for every user.

A Redesigned UI for Modern Analytics

The new Redwood UI offers faster navigation, better accessibility, and improved productivity. Redwood is now the default and only UI. Key improvements include:

  1. Launch outlines from the home page
  2. Bookmark frequent artifacts (calc scripts, rule editor, etc.)
  3. Stay updated with the notification panel
  4. Use enhanced search to view hierarchies and edit members quickly
Shortcuts to launch application outlines from home page.

Advanced Dynamic Filters

You can now use SQL functions (LOWER, UPPER, CAST) in dynamic filters, even when nested. These filters work directly with member set functions, making data retrieval flexible and more precise for application of access filters.

Dynamic filters now support SQL functions and Set functions

Federated Partitions Improvements

New Essbase Managed fact Applications

Federated partitions now support Essbase-managed fact tables. You can keep your current data and application lifecycle processes—admins don’t need to manage AI Lakehouse database details like table creation. This makes migration easier for existing customers and lets you benefit from Oracle’s AI Database while continuing existing Essbase processes.

Federated Partitions support for Essbase Managed Fact.

Improved performance

Parallelized report processing boosts performance for complex, large-scale reports.

MDX Export Improvements

Server updates speed up ASO queries and make MDX exports faster, even for large datasets, with the ability to apply filters. MDX Export also now supports metadata exports.

OCI Marketplace Deployments

On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, provisioning is streamlined with support for the AI Database 26ai as the default repository and continued support for 19c.

AI: The Essbase Roadmap

With “Ask Essbase,” users can ask questions in natural language and get answers directly from documentation. This helps developers quickly access information while building applications.

Ask Essbase feature to get documentation help.

Conclusion

Essbase 21.8 marks a bold step toward a smarter, more integrated, and user-centric analytical future. Whether you’re modernizing finance, enhancing predictive scenarios, or scaling analytics in the cloud, Essbase 21.8 delivers the innovation and reliability you expect from Oracle.

Stay tuned—Essbase is shaping the future of enterprise analytics.

For more details

Release notes: OCI Marketplace deployments and Independent deployments