How to Automate Oracle EPM (Hyperion) Administration
Lights-out automation is often times a top priority during a large implementation of Oracle EPM (Hyperion), and it’s easy to see why. The primary reasons for implementing a new solution are to cut...
View ArticleFive Themes and Outcomes from the Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW)...
The Higher Education Data Warehousing Forum (HEDW), “a network of higher education colleagues dedicated to promoting the sharing of knowledge and best practices regarding knowledge management in...
View ArticleOracle Hyperion Right-Click Business Rule Security
If you are a user of right-click menus in Oracle EPM (Hyperion), they most likely are primarily used for business rules. They’re excellent for allowing users to leverage the form layout in determining...
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Using Dimensional Security with Oracle Hyperion Business Rules
Previously, business rule security was discussed in coordination with menu options in the blog, “Oracle Hyperion Right-Click Business Rule Security”. As mentioned in that article, there are some...
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Oracle’s Latest White Paper: A New Way to Authenticate Oracle BI (OBIEE) and...
Here at Performance Architects we typically find ourselves perusing the Oracle Support blogs on a daily basis as they are a hotbed of new and interesting information. One article recently made the...
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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS): Mapping Smart Lists to...
This blog entry focuses on configuring Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) in a unique way to report on various member attributes. At this point, you might be thinking, “Hang on,...
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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS): Mapping Smart Lists to...
In Part One of this blog entry, I explained attributes, Smart Lists and how a planner can pick and choose various options from a drop-down list of Smart List values. In this blog entry, I explain this...
View ArticleFour Ways to Better Incorporate Functional Requirements in a Planning...
During the requirements and design phases (pre-implementation) in an Oracle Hyperion Planning implementation project, the idea of improving the actual planning process often gets lost, recreating...
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Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Load Parameters for Oracle Business Intelligence...
Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) use substitution variables which control the way data is loaded. These variables must always be configured during an implementation of BI Applications....
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Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM): The Value Dimension Explained!
Oracle’s consolidation tool, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), offers a number of system-generated dimensions. Perhaps the most important of these dimensions is the “Value” dimension. You’ll...
View ArticleOracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS): The “Simplified”...
For most of the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) product lifetime, customers could use PBCS with either the traditional Oracle Hyperion Planning interface or the newer simplified...
View ArticleHow to Address the Top Three Trends in Gartner’s “BI and Analytics Platforms...
Gartner’s BI and Analytics Platforms 2015 Magic Quadrant was released back in February 2015, so it’s hardly “new news” any more…except that our current and prospective clients and partners keep asking...
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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS): Simplified Interface...
During most of 2014, Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) operated with a similar interface to the classic Oracle Hyperion Planning “Workspace” with some minor differences (mainly the...
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The Top Three Focus Areas to Streamline the Oracle EPM (Hyperion) User...
The Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite offers generous flexibility for each individual user to control settings based on how each user would like to see data. However, there...
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Business Intelligence and Institutional Research: A Shotgun Wedding, or...
By Hank Childers, University of Arizona At The University of Arizona we decided to combine our Business Intelligence (BI) team (which includes ETL, Data Warehouse, and Reporting) with our Institutional...
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Updating Data Forms in Oracle Hyperion Planning with the FormDefUtil.cmd Utility
Author: Ben Snawder, Performance Architects Making changes to a single data form in Oracle Hyperion Workspace (Workspace) is easy. When you have to make changes to ten data forms, the process starts to...
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Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS): Data Sync Utility Overview
Author: Michael Bender, Performance Architects Late last year, Oracle released its Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) business intelligence offering called Business Intelligence Cloud Service, or BICS. One...
View ArticleClosing Time! The Top Five Reasons to Implement Oracle Hyperion Financial...
By Joe Francis, Performance Architects A core tool within Oracle’s EPM (Hyperion) product suite, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) focuses on the key business practice of the financial close. HFM...
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Oracle Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.4 PSU 002: How to Address Member Formula...
Author: Andrew Tauro, Performance Architects During a recent upgrade of Oracle EPM (Hyperion) from version 11.1.2.2.x to 11.1.2.4 we ran into a little trouble with the software. While the issue was not...
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OAUG Best of COLLABORATE15 eLearning Webinar Preview: Implementing an...
Author: Ron Woodlock, Performance Architects I presented “Implementing an Integrated Planning and Consolidation Process Solution” at the Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG) COLLABORATE 2015...
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