Oracle’s October 27, 2026 announcement that Snowflake will become available as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marks an important development for organizations running Oracle Essbase and Oracle Cloud EPM. As Oracle and Snowflake bring their platforms closer together, enterprises have a new reason to reconsider how they deliver multidimensional analytics.
For organizations that have invested heavily in Essbase, the opportunity isn’t simply adopting new technology. It’s preserving the financial models and business logic they’ve spent years developing while dramatically reducing costs, improving performance, and simplifying their OLAP infrastructure.
Enterprise OLAP at a Fraction of the Cost
Large organizations can spend millions of dollars on traditional OLAP environments when software licensing, infrastructure, administration, and ongoing support are considered.
Casabase Cube fundamentally changes that cost equation. As a Snowflake Native Application, it delivers enterprise OLAP capabilities without separate OLAP servers, the substantial licensing and infrastructure costs associated with many traditional OLAP deployments, or the operational complexity of maintaining a dedicated OLAP platform.
By leveraging Snowflake’s existing infrastructure, Casabase Cube offers organizations a significantly more cost-effective approach to multidimensional analytics, with the potential to dramatically reduce ongoing OLAP expenses.
Faster Access to Financial Data
Traditional Essbase and Cloud EPM environments can make extracting large volumes of detailed, aggregated, and calculated data slow and cumbersome, particularly when that information is needed by external reporting and analytics tools.
Casabase Cube performs multidimensional calculations directly against Snowflake data, making financial information accessible through SQL and tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
In actual customer environments, queries that previously took hours in Essbase or Oracle Cloud EPM have been completed in seconds using Casabase Cube.
The result is faster access to critical financial information without the extraction bottlenecks and data movement typically associated with traditional OLAP architectures.
Preserve Your Essbase Investment
Modernizing OLAP doesn’t have to mean rebuilding years of financial models and business logic.
Casabase Cube includes migration utilities that can migrate existing Essbase cubes in minutes, importing supported dimensions, hierarchies, formulas, and member properties directly from existing Essbase outlines.
Organizations can preserve their established multidimensional models while moving to a modern Snowflake-native architecture. Rather than committing to a lengthy migration project upfront, they can begin by migrating an existing cube and evaluating the results and performance against their current environment.
Start Modernizing Today
The Oracle–Snowflake partnership reinforces the growing role of Snowflake in enterprise analytics, but organizations don’t need to wait for Snowflake’s OCI offering to begin modernizing their OLAP environments.
Casabase Cube is available today as a Snowflake Native Application. With built-in Essbase migration utilities, organizations can quickly evaluate their existing applications on Snowflake and see the potential benefits firsthand.
Lower costs. Faster queries. No separate OLAP infrastructure. And no need to start from scratch.
For organizations running Essbase or Oracle Cloud EPM, there has never been a better time to explore a modern approach to multidimensional analytics.
Learn more about Casabase Cube or see how to migrate an existing Essbase cube in minutes.