Best Practices in HFM Application Design
Christopher Barbieri, Ranzal & Associates
Chris Barbieri discusses best practices for designing HFM applications, based on real statistics gathered during years of field experience. He explains the correlation between metadata volumes, data volumes, and application performance. This session also discusses the performance impact of rules and includes performance statistics for "good rules" and "bad rules."
Best Practices: Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management at General Dynamics Neela Chaudhari, Oracle Corporation
See how General Dynamics benefits with their new profitability product – HPCM. Observe how they faced many challenges of large allocations, identification of stages of allocations, and creation of allocations. Hear best practices on how they were successful, and learn some key lessons on their implementation success.
Tuning and Optimization for Infrastructure Rob Donahue, interRel Consulting
The first step in making sure your Essbase cubes and Hyperion EPM applications are running at their most efficient is to make sure your infrastructure is optimized and ready to deliver. This Webcast will show you how you can tune your infrastructure configuration to be optimized for your business. Rob Donahue will detail specific tips and settings you can implement right now in your environment to deliver the best performance possible out of your infrastructure.
Planning Tables, What’s Behind the Curtain? Dave Farnsworth, Solutions Experts, Inc.
At first glance, the planning relational tables can be daunting. This session will start at the basics. There is not time to cover every table, but any table that is touched when adding dimensional members will be covered. Special emphasis will be placed on the HSP_OBJECT table where a member is first initialized, the supporting detail table structure, attributes, and how they relate to HSP_OBJECT.
Under the Covers of Hyperion Workforce Planning Laura Gregor, Pearson Education
Do you own Hyperion Workforce Planning, but you want to find out what it's really doing behind the scenes? Are you thinking of buying Workforce Planning, but you want to know how it "really" works first? Come learn why you'll fall in love with Hyperion Workforce Planning.
Validating Your Financial Information Using Financial Data Quality Management (FDM)
Laura Gregor, Pearson Education
Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) helps organizations with the process of collecting, mapping, verifying, and moving critical financial data across systems (including adapters for Hyperion Financial Management, Planning, BI+ Essbase, and Enterprise). The Web-based guided workflow user interface helps standardize financial data management processes and reduces data integration costs and complexities. Come learn how to reduce expenditures by lowering the cost of compliance while improving productivity and insight with FDM’s drill-through capabilities—from EPM applications to transactional systems.
Learn how a Fortune 100 conglomerate is Leveraging Data Relationship Manager Ash Jain, AdvancedEPM Consulting Inc.
This session will cover best practices around data governance and key design considerations for implementing DRM as a one source for hierarchy and mapping management.
Managing Multiple Applications for Different Application Types via EPM Architect Janette Kosior, Oracle Corporation
Learn how to manage your Financial Management, Planning, and Essbase applications from EPM Architect (EPMA) - a shared repository of meta data specifically tailored to your EPM environment. With EPMA the user can load metadata, share dimensions between different application types, and then deploy those applications to FM, Planning, and Essbase. In addition, you will learn how to use Life Cycle Management to move application artifacts between your development, test, and production environments.
Hot Topics in Financial Reporting Mike Malwitz, Oracle Corporation
The hot topics will include: IFRS, XBRL, GRC, SOX, AS5, SDR, etc. Join Mike Malwitz for a discussion of how Oracle is responding with products and integration that address all of these requirements in a single platform.
Introduction to Hyperion Financial Close Solutions
Mike Malwitz, Oracle Corporation
Oracle's Hyperion products have been the market-leading financial consolidation and reporting solutions for the last twenty five years, but we have never stopped innovating. Our new financial close and disclosure management products will allow customers to achieve new levels of efficiency and transparency to the financial close process.
Top 10 Tips for Improving Hyperion Planning Tracy McMullen, interRel Consulting
If you want to improve the performance of your existing system, join Oracle ACE Directors for Hyperion, Tracy McMullen and senior principle product manager, Shankar Viswanathan, as they cover the top ten tips for Hyperion Planning. In this session, you'll learn loading, calculation, and retrieval tricks for increasing your performance more than 95 percent!
Effective Use of Calculation Manager with Essbase and Planning Brian O'Donnell, Kerdock Consulting
The presentation will proceed through a comparative analysis of Essbase calculation scripts, planning business rules using the Essbase Administration Console, and the Calculation Manager. We will discuss the benefits and limitations of each and see how Calculation Manager can help to overcome limitations of the past to make us more productive both short and long-term.
LifeCycle Management: LCM in 11.1.1.3 Scott Pold, Ranzal & Associates, Inc.
Hyperion Lifecycle Management (LCM) in Hyperion 11 has become essential to all backup processes. Behind a simple structure lies a powerful tool that can be used to restore an entire environment or a single Web form. Learn best practices to migrate your environments or copy a Planning app. Learn how to automate the scripting, and how to hack the .xml files to rename a plan type in Planning. Restoring your apps is now much easier.
Oracle / Hyperion Infrastructure Best Practices for Large, Complex Installations Pete Puskas, US Analytics Solutions Group
Learn Oracle / Hyperion infrastructure best practices for large, complex installations in three major areas: security, sizing, and high availability. Learn about the performance and economic trade-off considerations every infrastructure consultant should bring to their customers.
HFM Extended Analytics Integration with ASO Essbase John Rambeau, US AnalyticsSolutions Group
Learn how limitations in the out-of-the-box Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) product can be overcome with creative use of the available product toolsets. Learn how Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Essbase can be made even more valuable by using their extended architectures for custom solutions.
What is Oracle Disclosure Management? Dave Roberts, Oracle Corporation
The Disclosure Management product allows customers to assemble a reporting package for submission to a regulatory agency that includes financial statements, as well as supporting schedules and text commentary from Excel, Word, Smart View, or Oracle Financial Reporting. The key purpose of this new product is to centralize and manage the critical documents needed in the financial close cycle. It will also streamline the XBRL publishing process for a more efficient reporting cycle.
Creating an EPM Center of Excellence Gauthier Vasseur, Google
At most companies, management solutions spread throughout various departments. They can be scattered—accounting may control Financial Management, the budgeting department may own Planning, and IT might manage Olap Databases. Or they can be redundant—several different departments end up having expertise in the same products. Wouldn't it be better to bring all of these groups together under one common umbrella that can share best practices, dimensions, data, and most importantly, experience? An EPM Center of Excellence is within your reach, and in this one hour presentation, you will learn the steps to begin creating one.
Aligning Financial Plans with Operational Plans Using Integrated Operational Planning Shanker Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Integrated Operational Planning links financial plans and metrics to operational plans from manufacturing, sales, marketing, and other functions to create an integrated business planning framework that enables fact-based decision-making. This unique capability of combining operational intelligence with financial intelligence enables development of granular revenue and cost models that enable margin and COGS planning based on operational drivers, and helps finance executives and managers make realistic and achievable projections on key financial metrics such as revenues, COGS, and gross margins.
Exciting New Developments in Planning and Budgeting for the Public Sector
Shanker Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Hyperion Planning is a centralized, Microsoft Excel and Web-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes. With it, you can meet your immediate financial planning and budget preparation needs as well as budget publication requirements. This session introduces Oracle's Hyperion Planning application and the new Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting module with its rich position and employee budgeting functionality.
Improving the Planning Submission and Approval Process Using the Upcoming Process Management Features of Oracle Hyperion Planning (11.1.2 planned CY 2010)
Shanker Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation
Key success factors in a planning and budgeting cycle include an efficient process for data entry and plan submission to subsequent owners, accountability for the submitted and approved numbers, and flexibility to support process changes and complex workflows. Learn how the implementation of Planning’s features (11.1.2 planned CY 2010) will help your organization provide planning data in a fast, efficient way, ensuring that the entire organization is accountable for the submitted and approved planning numbers.
Using Strategic Finance to do Closed Loop Continuous Planning
Shankar Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation
Hyperion Strategic Finance (HSF) allows for high-level modeling and forecasting capabilities. When combined with the bottom-up planning and target version settings in Hyperion Planning, and in many cases with KPIs and strategy maps defined in Scorecard product, in unison, these can help organizations achieve a cogent correlation between strategy and plans by making the rolling forecast process more effective.
Hyperion Financial Management: Business Rule Writing Tips and Techniques John Weimar, Kerdock Consulting
Are you new to HFM, VB scripting, or just need a refresher? Understand what rules actually do, and better understand how to move data within HFM. Besides best practices in scripting, get exposed to key consolidation routines, the importance of the POV, value dimension, eliminations, equity pickup, and more. Take a peek at Calc Manager and get exposed to new features of version 11. This session is essential for the new Hyperion administrator / developer.
Tracy McMullen, interRel Consulting