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The EPM Report from Oracle OpenWorld 2017
By Mark Wilson on October 11th, 2017
Oracle’s annual get together for 60,000+ people who want to learn about the latest and greatest innovations on the horizon. We heard a lot of big announcements of cool things like Autonomous Database, emerging technologies, and new releases for EPM.
Data Validations Leading Practices
By Hoa Pham on August 9th, 2017
Over my 15 plus years of consulting, one of the great constants in working with Oracle Hyperion EPM is that you cannot hide from data validations. It must be done. One of the eternal questions is: “Does the data tie out?” And of course, we know that the answer must always be an affirmative. In…
Integrating DRM with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service
By TopDown Team on March 14th, 2017
When it comes to Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS), the question we are consistently asked is: Can DRM publish metadata for consumption into Oracle Cloud? The answer is yes, with a couple of asterisks. Read on to find out how.
Doing More with Currency Translations
By Hoa Pham on March 8th, 2017
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is purpose-built to perform consolidations and reporting. HFM has a great built-in functionality to translate data from any currency into the reporting currency. In this blog post, we’ll discuss extending the use of the built-in currency translation capability.
Oracle ARCS: The Essential Overview
By Mike Arnoldy on February 27th, 2017
In this blog post, we’re looking at Account Reconciliation Cloud Services, or ARCS, the cloud version of Account Reconciliation Manager (ARM). ARCS is a cloud-based solution designed to bring automation and controls to the account reconciliation process. Unlike some of the other members of the EPM Cloud Suite, ARCS currently has the majority of the functionality found in the on-premise version.
Smart View in the Cloud
By Paul Hoch on February 21st, 2017
EPM in the Cloud is fast becoming the new normal as Oracle continues to add to its suite of Cloud products. As companies transition Planning applications to the Cloud, they often have questions about how things like existing spreadsheets, reports, and processes going to work once they migrate.
Consolidations in ERP or Oracle FCCS?
By Mike Arnoldy on February 14th, 2017
If your ERP systems will do consolidations, you may be asking the question: How would I benefit from spending the extra money to implement a separate EPM application for Financial Consolidation and Reporting? An EPM solution such as Oracle’s FCCS helps companies address challenges that come with doing consolidations in an ERP system.
Transforming Planning at Suez with Hybrid Aggregation
By Ron Moore and Brian Brockway on February 6th, 2017
Suez administrators had to carefully plan when to execute aggregations to avoid taking the application off line and disrupting users. Back up and other administrative tasks were also very time consuming. To solve this problem, Suez collaborated with TopDown to optimize the aggregation process through a Hybrid aggregation approach.
Data Type Features in Oracle PBCS & EPBCS
By TopDown Team on February 1st, 2017
If you’re working with Hyperion Planning, the good news is that the cloud versions —PBCS and EPBCS—offer the same data type features. The key thing to know is that the configuration is slightly different. This post will show you how to enhance your Planning cloud application with non-financial data such as Text or Dates.
Consolidations in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
By Hoa Pham on January 23rd, 2017
In the world of corporate financial reporting, what are consolidations? And what is Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)? This case study answers these questions and demonstrates how HFM is the best solution for providing Profit & Loss statements, Balance Sheet reports, Cash Flow statements, and other related company financial reports.
FCCS & HFM – Similarities & Differences
By Brian Willson on January 16th, 2017
At first glance, FCCS would seem substantially different from HFM. The Simplified interface looks nothing like the traditional HFM workspace interface. When taking a closer look, however, especially when considering the design of the dimensionality, you’ll see that FCCS is a very close relative of HFM. As Oracle continues to increase the features and functions of FCCS, the two seemingly different applications will move closer and closer in comparison.
Managing and Integrating Hyperion Smart Lists Using DRM – Part 1
By TopDown Team on January 10th, 2017
Oracle Essbase is the industry leading Multidimensional Database platform. As a modeling and reporting technology, Essbase can only store numeric information, strings and other data types are not supported. However, both Essbase and Planning can get around this limitation using some functionality called Smart Lists, which are nothing more than lookup tables. This blog post will show you a design to manage both the Smart Lists themselves, as well as the association between member (in Essbase/Planning) and Smart List.
