1. Value-add tools for your Oracle
applications
Make your EPM investment more
efficient
Contact details:
Email: noel.gorvett@amosca.co.uk
2. Agenda
• Value add options to consider
• AMOSCA offer
• EPM Maestro Suite – HFM simplified
• MerlinXL Report Wizard – a fresh approach to reporting
• Accelatis Ascension Suite – understanding your EPM environment
• Discussion
3. Value-add definition
It is our opinion, that corporations consider Value-add solutions as
complementary, and not a replacement for the core Oracle EPM software.
The criteria is:
• developed using standard technologies
• are either exclusive to Oracle, or at least have a primary focus aligned
with Oracle EPM applications
• are supported by the vendor
• is acknowledged / endorsed by Oracle
Consulting solutions have a place, but consider the risks –
upgrade issues; solution knowledge; impact on infrastructure
4. Value-Add options
• EPM Maestro Suite
• MerlinXL Report Wizard
• Accelatis Ascension Suite
• Triometric
• CXO Cockpit
• Dodeca
• Others
• XBRL related; Tax; Treasury; GRC; greenEPM
• OLAP Underground; HFM Utilities
• Tell us about others you use…
6. Value-Add Tools options
• EPM Maestro Suite AMOSCA encourage the
• MerlinXL development of supported
value-add tools. Ad-hoc,
• Accelatis point consulting solutions
•Triometric can create issues in version
and upgrade management.
• CXO Cockpit
We do not have all the
• Others answers, but, at best, will
• XBRL; Tax; GRC; Sustainability consider and advise your
best approach.
• Dodeca; OLAP Underground
• Tell us about others you use…
7. Value-Add – EPM Maestro
• EPM Maestro Suite Once purchased and in place the
• EPM Maestro administrator’s productivity will
immediately improve and they
• Win32 client will wonder what they did prior
• Simple install and usability to its implementation. I highly
recommend to all HFM
• EPM Web Symphony customers.
• Integrated into each application - The Stanley Works
• Inherits user provisioned rights We use EPM Maestro all the time
and find the tool invaluable. I
• See demos and sign up for a free evaluation don’t think we could live without it
at: www.epmmaestro.com - Emerson
Over 100 clients
worldwide
8. EPM Maestro Clients
"The EPM
Maestro Suite
does more than
we imagined.
Cadbury
processes and
users have
benefited from
significant time
and cost savings.
A must have
addition for us,
and any other
HFM customer."
- Rikesh
Raichura, HFM
Controller,
Cadbury PLC
9. Enodis / Manitowoc EPM Maestro Case Study
Industry: Manufacturing
Application: Oracle Hyperion HFM 9.2.1 and 9.3.1
Challenges: Synchronisation between development and
production environments; and between Enodis
and Manitowoc applications
Benefits: - Process control and assured all steps repeatedly
in the right sequence
- Simplified administration tasks
- Routine reconsolidation across all Scenarios fully
automated
“Do not consider using HFM without EPM Maestro
Suite. The investment is minimal to the benefits it
delivers’’
- Enodis
10. Metso EPM Maestro Case Study
Industry: Manufacturing
Application: Oracle Hyperion HFM 9.2.0.3
Challenges: Needed automation and administration simplicity
Benefits: Scheduled data and application backups
Significant time saving with administrative tasks
“The EPM Maestro Suite allows us the peace of mind
that complex routines are completed consistently.
Without these tools, we would have many resource
and time constraints’’
- Metso
11. Xstrata EPM Maestro Case Study
Industry: Mining
Application: Oracle Hyperion HFM 9.3.1
Challenges: Needed automation and administration simplicity
Benefits: Security audit visibility
Visibility of OBP status and attributes
“Xstrata rely on the EPM Maestro Suite as a critical
element of the many reporting cycles. The simplicity
and robustness are great time savers’’
- Xstrata
13. Value-Add options
• MerlinXL
• Excel based reporting tool for HFM
• Deliver high quality reports direct to Excel
• Drill-down and drill-across
• Ad-hoc reporting
• Intercompany matching reports
• Journal reports
• Data collection packs
• See demo and sign up for a free evaluation at the
www.merlinxl.com
15. Wolesley plc MerlinXL Case Study
Industry: Manufacturing
Application: Oracle Hyperion HFM 9.3.1
Challenge: To produce a single monthly reporting pack for all
businesses and all periods.
Benefit: The Report Wizard can produce report books for a
single entity or for a list of entities. When a report
is built the Report Wizard strips out the unwanted
sheets depending on the reporting entity and
period.
“The Report Wizard has revolutionised the way I report on HFM and I can’t imagine how I
would manage without it. There is no doubt the level of reporting and analysis we do is
far superior and much easier than it would be without the Report Wizard.”
- Wolesley
16. Mondi Group MerlinXL Case Study
Industry: Paper and packaging
Application: Oracle Hyperion HFM 9.3.1
Challenge: To improve the method of monthly intercompany reporting.
Reduce the time it takes to produce reports, and improve the
presentation of the mismatch reports
Benefit: The Report Wizard intercompany matching process was
redesigned to match local currency intercompany balances.
The Intercompany reports were designed to filter and sort
mismatches so that the report was reduced to a single page
if printed.
“The MerlinXL Report Wizard has become a integral tool to all reporting processes out of
HFM, offering standardised reports across the group, drill-down functionality enabling
rapid ad-hoc analysis, plus the user-friendly inter-company reports.
The overall result is that controllers are able to spend more time driving action in
response to reports, than reporting itself.” - Mondi
18. Value-Add options
• Accelatis Ascension Suite
• Deployment Management and Optimization
• integrated collection of products
• spans the range from:
• IT/Infrastructure solutions
• Application Administrator solutions
• solving problems that face the CFO
• improve performance while decreasing TCO
• Sign up for a free evaluation at the
www.accelatis.com
19. Value-Add options
Ascension Suite Value Pyramid
Automatic Audit Report Generation
SOX Audit
Tune Product Performance
Optimization
Value and Cost Savings
Eliminate Bottlenecks
Performance Analysis
Automate business processes
Task Automation
Proactively protect environment
Real Time Alerting
Quickly recover from issues
Activity Analysis
Real-time tracking of KPMs
Server Monitoring
Environment Management and Reporting
