The document provides a comparison of Oracle's Global Consolidation System (GCS) and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). It finds that HFM uses more current and robust technology, including an n-tier architecture, that allows for widespread deployment and increased scalability. Maintenance is also deemed easier in HFM, as functions can be performed using the open and easy-to-learn VBScript rather than Oracle's PL/SQL. In conclusion, the document determines that HFM's architecture is technically superior to GCS based on its scalability and flexibility.
This document provides an overview of an ERP book titled "ERP Made Simple: ERP Explained in 80 Pages or Less". The summary includes:
1. The book introduces ERP concepts and major ERP vendors like SAP and Oracle. It explains how ERP integrates enterprise information and supports planning and operations.
2. Key SAP ERP modules are outlined like SD, MM, PP, FI, CO and how they relate to business processes like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay.
3. An overview of Oracle ERP suites is provided for comparison. Major differences between SAP and Oracle strategies and product portfolios are highlighted.
Castrol Bike Zone was looking for a business planning and performance management system to better track franchise performance across India. Their existing systems using Excel were inefficient. InfoAxon implemented a solution called BPPMS using open source Pentaho BI and Kettle ETL to integrate data from various sources into a single dashboard. This 3x3 matrix dashboard visualized franchise sustainability and performance scores to help management identify underperforming franchises and take corrective action. The solution provided improved visibility and decision making capabilities.
This document discusses the evolving roles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems and how their integration has become more important. While ERP focuses on execution and PLM focuses on innovation, the lines between them have blurred as PLM has expanded into more enterprise processes. The roles of each system have remained the same, with ERP managing business execution and PLM managing product innovation and development, but their integration has evolved significantly. Manufacturers can take an evolutionary approach to achieve an integrated ecosystem that spans the entire product lifecycle from innovation to execution.
Apos Whitepaper Driving Efficient Management Of Your Business Objects BI Plat...SAP
This white paper discusses the challenges of managing large and complex business intelligence (BI) deployments. As BI adoption increases, deployments are growing larger in scale and more complex due to diverse user needs. This puts pressure on organizations to efficiently manage their BI platforms. The APOS Solutions enhance and extend the capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects platform to help customers more efficiently operate, monitor, and administer their BI environments. Key benefits include reduced maintenance costs through automation, improved crisis management through enhanced monitoring and control, and increased end user productivity.
Market Research Report : Erp market in china 2012Netscribes, Inc.
The ERP market in China is large and growing rapidly. [1] The Chinese ERP market was worth USD __ million in 2010 and is expected to grow at __% annually until 2020. [2] Major drivers of growth include wage inflation, increasing demand from small and medium businesses, and opportunities from cloud computing. [3] However, challenges remain such as high implementation costs and a lack of ERP experience in China.
Learn about the benefits of selecting IBM Power platform architecture as the SAP deployment which has critical effects on staffing, security, cost and satisfaction, as well as impressive reliability. Thus making the IBM Power platform a strong contender for an organization’s SAP deployment choice. For more information on Power Systems, visit
http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
E-Business Suite 1 | Nadia Bendiedou | Oracle E-Business Suite Technology rel...InSync2011
The document outlines new features and enhancements in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 that are aimed at increasing user productivity, lowering integration costs, and reducing the total cost of ownership. Key highlights include improved user interfaces, pre-built integrations, centralized identity management, and enhanced business intelligence capabilities such as interactive dashboards, reporting, and analytics. Over 8,000 pre-defined business intelligence assets are available covering various industry applications.
ERP II: A conceptual framework for next-generation enterprise systems?UGRME
The document first discusses how enterprise systems have evolved from early computing applications to today's ERP systems. It then analyzes new business requirements around concepts like supply chain management that ERP systems have struggled to meet. The document proposes the ERP II framework to address these emerging needs, consisting of four layers: a central process layer provided by ERP, additional corporate components like CRM and SCM, collaborative portal components, and an analytical business intelligence layer. It evaluates the framework based on case studies and research, concluding that ERP II provides an important vision for future systems but will take time to develop as ERP evol
This document provides an overview of an ERP book titled "ERP Made Simple: ERP Explained in 80 Pages or Less". The summary includes:
1. The book introduces ERP concepts and major ERP vendors like SAP and Oracle. It explains how ERP integrates enterprise information and supports planning and operations.
2. Key SAP ERP modules are outlined like SD, MM, PP, FI, CO and how they relate to business processes like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay.
3. An overview of Oracle ERP suites is provided for comparison. Major differences between SAP and Oracle strategies and product portfolios are highlighted.
Castrol Bike Zone was looking for a business planning and performance management system to better track franchise performance across India. Their existing systems using Excel were inefficient. InfoAxon implemented a solution called BPPMS using open source Pentaho BI and Kettle ETL to integrate data from various sources into a single dashboard. This 3x3 matrix dashboard visualized franchise sustainability and performance scores to help management identify underperforming franchises and take corrective action. The solution provided improved visibility and decision making capabilities.
This document discusses the evolving roles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems and how their integration has become more important. While ERP focuses on execution and PLM focuses on innovation, the lines between them have blurred as PLM has expanded into more enterprise processes. The roles of each system have remained the same, with ERP managing business execution and PLM managing product innovation and development, but their integration has evolved significantly. Manufacturers can take an evolutionary approach to achieve an integrated ecosystem that spans the entire product lifecycle from innovation to execution.
Apos Whitepaper Driving Efficient Management Of Your Business Objects BI Plat...SAP
This white paper discusses the challenges of managing large and complex business intelligence (BI) deployments. As BI adoption increases, deployments are growing larger in scale and more complex due to diverse user needs. This puts pressure on organizations to efficiently manage their BI platforms. The APOS Solutions enhance and extend the capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects platform to help customers more efficiently operate, monitor, and administer their BI environments. Key benefits include reduced maintenance costs through automation, improved crisis management through enhanced monitoring and control, and increased end user productivity.
Market Research Report : Erp market in china 2012Netscribes, Inc.
The ERP market in China is large and growing rapidly. [1] The Chinese ERP market was worth USD __ million in 2010 and is expected to grow at __% annually until 2020. [2] Major drivers of growth include wage inflation, increasing demand from small and medium businesses, and opportunities from cloud computing. [3] However, challenges remain such as high implementation costs and a lack of ERP experience in China.
Learn about the benefits of selecting IBM Power platform architecture as the SAP deployment which has critical effects on staffing, security, cost and satisfaction, as well as impressive reliability. Thus making the IBM Power platform a strong contender for an organization’s SAP deployment choice. For more information on Power Systems, visit
http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
E-Business Suite 1 | Nadia Bendiedou | Oracle E-Business Suite Technology rel...InSync2011
The document outlines new features and enhancements in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 that are aimed at increasing user productivity, lowering integration costs, and reducing the total cost of ownership. Key highlights include improved user interfaces, pre-built integrations, centralized identity management, and enhanced business intelligence capabilities such as interactive dashboards, reporting, and analytics. Over 8,000 pre-defined business intelligence assets are available covering various industry applications.
ERP II: A conceptual framework for next-generation enterprise systems?UGRME
The document first discusses how enterprise systems have evolved from early computing applications to today's ERP systems. It then analyzes new business requirements around concepts like supply chain management that ERP systems have struggled to meet. The document proposes the ERP II framework to address these emerging needs, consisting of four layers: a central process layer provided by ERP, additional corporate components like CRM and SCM, collaborative portal components, and an analytical business intelligence layer. It evaluates the framework based on case studies and research, concluding that ERP II provides an important vision for future systems but will take time to develop as ERP evol
The document discusses the first stage of an IT optimization methodology called Portfolio Rationalization. This stage involves inventorying the current application and technology portfolio, mapping applications to business capabilities, and analyzing the portfolio against criteria to identify opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and modernization. The goal is to rationalize the portfolio to reduce complexity, costs and risk while improving support for business strategies.
This document provides an overview and evaluation of leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors. It finds that Software AG, IBM, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle, SAP, and Cordys Software achieved leadership status based on evaluations of their enterprise application integration, business-to-business interactions, business process management, and service-oriented architecture capabilities. The document also discusses key trends in the IC-BPMS market such as consolidation and differentiation.
This document provides an overview of Oracle Fusion & Cloud Applications. It discusses Oracle Fusion Applications and Middleware, the product families, technology differences between EBS and Fusion Applications, product release support for Fusion upgrades, skills required for Fusion consultants, and how to configure and extend Fusion using composers like Data, Process, Page and Report Composers. It also summarizes customization options for Fusion pages, objects, processes, security and more.
Introducing common information model in a distribution system operator companyAlaa Karam
1. The document introduces the Common Information Model (CIM) and how it can be used to improve integration and communication for a distribution system operator (DSO) company.
2. CIM provides standardized models and schemas to help overcome issues like systems using different data representations and "silos of data". This can help solve semantic inconsistencies across boundaries.
3. The document discusses several ways CIM could be applied for the DSO company, such as for various business processes and integration use cases involving metering, billing, and infrastructure systems. CIM may help reduce integration complexities compared to proprietary interfaces.
This whitepaper provides guidance for IT architects on deploying SAP HANA on-premise using Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI). It covers architectural principles for TDI deployments, including designing for scalability, performance, resilience, automation, and flexibility. The document provides an overview of the architectural considerations and guidelines for implementing an SAP HANA infrastructure that leverages existing datacenter resources to reduce costs and risks while enabling business innovation.
This document provides lessons learned and best practices for implementing an ERP cloud solution. Key considerations include infrastructure provisioning and management, managing ERP upgrades and release cycles, effective data conversion using templates, selecting appropriate reporting tools, ensuring proper configuration of platform as a service, and carefully planning security roles and data access. Infrastructure sizing, cloning and backup cycles, grouping of products, and impact of upgrades must all be addressed. Templates help with data conversion of masters, customers, suppliers and invoices. A variety of reporting tools suit different reporting needs. Proper PaaS configuration and coding standards expedite development. Defining custom roles based on duties and privileges provides appropriate access.
The document discusses iOrange Technology, an IT training company. It provides an overview of Oracle ERP solutions Oracle Applications 11i and R12. It describes iOrange Technology's workshops that include sessions on personality development, technical/functional knowledge improvement, and guidance on implementation projects through working with professionals on live projects.
This presentation provides a high-level overview of BPM and where it is today.
It also touches on some of the core technologies and standards.
Its focus is on the four specific “Challenges” facing BPM and they are aligned to the four phases of the typical application development life cycle.
1. Discovery
2. Design
3. Development
4. Deployment
Get Ready for Solvency II with Oracle's Hyperion Profitability and Cost Manag...Alithya
Organisations today are preparing for the Solvency II regulatory requirements by looking at the controls, processes, and methodologies involved with their various accounting, finance, and reporting functions, and making provisions to simplify, standardize, and wherever possible, automate. Ranzal Vice President and Oracle ACE, Mike Killeen provides an overview of HPCM and discuss how companies can leverage the tool for the Solvency II requirements. This presentation is for the UK market.
http://www.hcltech.com/ - More on HCL Technologies
According to industry estimates most of the business critical applications for not only midsize companies, but also many Fortune 500 corporations run on legacy systems, due to the system’s excellent performance and stability. CIO’s and IT managers handling these applications constantly face challenges such as:
High cost of supporting and maintaining the expensive legacy applications.
Inefficient, slow and less productive system compared to competition.
Unmitigated risk associated with lack of skill availability in the resource market.
Risk associated with running business critical application on unsupported platform.
Higher time to market due to large, monolithic, complex and less productive systems.
Integration with newer systems due to incompatibility with new and different technologies.
Rational Insight is an enterprise reporting solution from IBM that addresses challenges in reporting across departments and disparate data sources. It provides automated, reliable reporting and dashboards across projects, teams and tools through integration with IBM Collaboration Lifecycle Management tools. Rational Insight leverages the Cognos BI platform and uses an extract, transform, load process to integrate data into a data warehouse for real-time and historical reporting.
The IBM Rational Insight Reporting SolutionMarc Nehme
Enterprise reporting with Rational and non-Rational products.
This segment will discuss and demonstrate the benefits of using the Rational Insight solution for enterprise reporting from Rational and non-Rational data sources. One section will cover Insight’s flexibility and how it can leverage different data source integration methods such as REST and ODBC, to extract data not just from Rational products such as Requisite Pro and but also non-Rational and open source products such as Hudson, Bugzilla, Sonar, and Excel. Another section will cover the benefits of compiling all of this disparate data in an automated fashion from various data sources into one Insight dashboard view, which provides an organization with a higher level of visibility and detail into their software development projects and activities. A final section will cover best practices and overall benefits of implementing one unified reporting solution with Insight across an entire organization, showing the time, effort, and financial savings.
Overcoming Knowledge Integration Barriers in ERP implementation Using Action ...Jose Esteves
The document discusses knowledge integration barriers in ERP implementations using an action research approach. It presents the methodology used, which involved interviews and workshops over three months with an ERP implementation team. The analysis identifies structural, technological, and intellectual/socio-emotional barriers, such as siloed knowledge and resistance to change. Lessons learned include forming cross-functional groups, focusing only on the new ERP system, and improving knowledge transfer between users and consultants through training. The conclusions provide recommendations for managers to address the barriers through organizational restructuring, leveraging existing IT expertise, and taking a holistic view of change management.
The document provides an overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP). It describes ERP as a fully integrated business management system that organizes processes and information flows across various functional areas like logistics, production, finance, accounting, and human resources. The document outlines the characteristics of an ERP system and discusses challenges in ERP implementation such as customizing the system, defining roles and responsibilities, and gaining employee acceptance of new processes. It also lists the typical steps involved in implementing an ERP package, which include identifying needs, evaluating current processes, selecting a software package, and training users.
Roger Brathwaite is an experienced IT leader with over 20 years of experience managing and consulting on IT initiatives. He has led many large-scale service integration projects involving multiple vendors and business processes. Service integration involves integrating discrete IT services into coherent end-to-end services through governance, information sharing, and service level agreements. Brathwaite provides examples of two major service integration projects, one for an oil and gas company integrating asset management and one for a telecom company integrating global IT service delivery. He outlines his responsibilities and methodology for leading such projects from conception through deployment.
In this presentation, we will discuss the concept of ERP, scope and potentials of ERP software, meeting the business needs with ERP implementation, key terminologies and use of ERP across a complete business system.
To know more about Welingkar School’s Distance Learning Program and courses offered, visit: http://www.welingkaronline.org/distance-learning/online-mba.html
The document provides an overview of SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) including:
1) It discusses the organizational structure for maintenance planning including centralized vs decentralized structures.
2) It outlines the key master data used in SAP PM such as technical objects, work centers, maintenance plans, and tasks lists.
3) It describes some of the main maintenance processing scenarios in SAP PM like maintenance notifications, maintenance orders, and preventative maintenance planning.
Sage ERP X3 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that provides financial management, supply chain management, and customer relationship management capabilities. It allows for customization of workflows and data integration across multiple sites. While Sage ERP X3 enables multi-national companies to manage their operations globally, its user interface and reporting features lag behind some competitors.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) exists in every enterprise. It is often a low priority for IT managers until changes to the business make a very real, and very expensive, project. The real cost of a failed ERP initiative is IT careers. ERP is always challenging, so IT leaders must determine which of three strategies are most appropriate:
•Stick. Maintain the existing system and establish a date to revisit the strategy.
•Augment. Stay on the existing ERP platform, but augment with additional modules, custom development, or bolt-ons.
•Rip & Replace. Initiate the move to a new ERP system.
The best way to develop an ERP plan is through an annual audit that assesses the priorities of the enterprise and capabilities of the existing ERP platform. Use this storyboard and associated tools to get your ERP strategy on the right track.
Option One Mortgage Corporation implemented seleqtech solutions to improve decision making and reporting. The solutions delivered timely key performance indicators to business users through online tools. This information helped executives and management run the business and make profitable decisions. The solutions increased productivity, proficiency, and resource efficiency while improving operational costs, delinquency rates, strategic planning, service quality, and profit levels. seleqtech provided data integration and reporting capabilities to help clients make better business decisions.
The document discusses the first stage of an IT optimization methodology called Portfolio Rationalization. This stage involves inventorying the current application and technology portfolio, mapping applications to business capabilities, and analyzing the portfolio against criteria to identify opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and modernization. The goal is to rationalize the portfolio to reduce complexity, costs and risk while improving support for business strategies.
This document provides an overview and evaluation of leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors. It finds that Software AG, IBM, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle, SAP, and Cordys Software achieved leadership status based on evaluations of their enterprise application integration, business-to-business interactions, business process management, and service-oriented architecture capabilities. The document also discusses key trends in the IC-BPMS market such as consolidation and differentiation.
This document provides an overview of Oracle Fusion & Cloud Applications. It discusses Oracle Fusion Applications and Middleware, the product families, technology differences between EBS and Fusion Applications, product release support for Fusion upgrades, skills required for Fusion consultants, and how to configure and extend Fusion using composers like Data, Process, Page and Report Composers. It also summarizes customization options for Fusion pages, objects, processes, security and more.
Introducing common information model in a distribution system operator companyAlaa Karam
1. The document introduces the Common Information Model (CIM) and how it can be used to improve integration and communication for a distribution system operator (DSO) company.
2. CIM provides standardized models and schemas to help overcome issues like systems using different data representations and "silos of data". This can help solve semantic inconsistencies across boundaries.
3. The document discusses several ways CIM could be applied for the DSO company, such as for various business processes and integration use cases involving metering, billing, and infrastructure systems. CIM may help reduce integration complexities compared to proprietary interfaces.
This whitepaper provides guidance for IT architects on deploying SAP HANA on-premise using Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI). It covers architectural principles for TDI deployments, including designing for scalability, performance, resilience, automation, and flexibility. The document provides an overview of the architectural considerations and guidelines for implementing an SAP HANA infrastructure that leverages existing datacenter resources to reduce costs and risks while enabling business innovation.
This document provides lessons learned and best practices for implementing an ERP cloud solution. Key considerations include infrastructure provisioning and management, managing ERP upgrades and release cycles, effective data conversion using templates, selecting appropriate reporting tools, ensuring proper configuration of platform as a service, and carefully planning security roles and data access. Infrastructure sizing, cloning and backup cycles, grouping of products, and impact of upgrades must all be addressed. Templates help with data conversion of masters, customers, suppliers and invoices. A variety of reporting tools suit different reporting needs. Proper PaaS configuration and coding standards expedite development. Defining custom roles based on duties and privileges provides appropriate access.
The document discusses iOrange Technology, an IT training company. It provides an overview of Oracle ERP solutions Oracle Applications 11i and R12. It describes iOrange Technology's workshops that include sessions on personality development, technical/functional knowledge improvement, and guidance on implementation projects through working with professionals on live projects.
This presentation provides a high-level overview of BPM and where it is today.
It also touches on some of the core technologies and standards.
Its focus is on the four specific “Challenges” facing BPM and they are aligned to the four phases of the typical application development life cycle.
1. Discovery
2. Design
3. Development
4. Deployment
Get Ready for Solvency II with Oracle's Hyperion Profitability and Cost Manag...Alithya
Organisations today are preparing for the Solvency II regulatory requirements by looking at the controls, processes, and methodologies involved with their various accounting, finance, and reporting functions, and making provisions to simplify, standardize, and wherever possible, automate. Ranzal Vice President and Oracle ACE, Mike Killeen provides an overview of HPCM and discuss how companies can leverage the tool for the Solvency II requirements. This presentation is for the UK market.
http://www.hcltech.com/ - More on HCL Technologies
According to industry estimates most of the business critical applications for not only midsize companies, but also many Fortune 500 corporations run on legacy systems, due to the system’s excellent performance and stability. CIO’s and IT managers handling these applications constantly face challenges such as:
High cost of supporting and maintaining the expensive legacy applications.
Inefficient, slow and less productive system compared to competition.
Unmitigated risk associated with lack of skill availability in the resource market.
Risk associated with running business critical application on unsupported platform.
Higher time to market due to large, monolithic, complex and less productive systems.
Integration with newer systems due to incompatibility with new and different technologies.
Rational Insight is an enterprise reporting solution from IBM that addresses challenges in reporting across departments and disparate data sources. It provides automated, reliable reporting and dashboards across projects, teams and tools through integration with IBM Collaboration Lifecycle Management tools. Rational Insight leverages the Cognos BI platform and uses an extract, transform, load process to integrate data into a data warehouse for real-time and historical reporting.
The IBM Rational Insight Reporting SolutionMarc Nehme
Enterprise reporting with Rational and non-Rational products.
This segment will discuss and demonstrate the benefits of using the Rational Insight solution for enterprise reporting from Rational and non-Rational data sources. One section will cover Insight’s flexibility and how it can leverage different data source integration methods such as REST and ODBC, to extract data not just from Rational products such as Requisite Pro and but also non-Rational and open source products such as Hudson, Bugzilla, Sonar, and Excel. Another section will cover the benefits of compiling all of this disparate data in an automated fashion from various data sources into one Insight dashboard view, which provides an organization with a higher level of visibility and detail into their software development projects and activities. A final section will cover best practices and overall benefits of implementing one unified reporting solution with Insight across an entire organization, showing the time, effort, and financial savings.
Overcoming Knowledge Integration Barriers in ERP implementation Using Action ...Jose Esteves
The document discusses knowledge integration barriers in ERP implementations using an action research approach. It presents the methodology used, which involved interviews and workshops over three months with an ERP implementation team. The analysis identifies structural, technological, and intellectual/socio-emotional barriers, such as siloed knowledge and resistance to change. Lessons learned include forming cross-functional groups, focusing only on the new ERP system, and improving knowledge transfer between users and consultants through training. The conclusions provide recommendations for managers to address the barriers through organizational restructuring, leveraging existing IT expertise, and taking a holistic view of change management.
The document provides an overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP). It describes ERP as a fully integrated business management system that organizes processes and information flows across various functional areas like logistics, production, finance, accounting, and human resources. The document outlines the characteristics of an ERP system and discusses challenges in ERP implementation such as customizing the system, defining roles and responsibilities, and gaining employee acceptance of new processes. It also lists the typical steps involved in implementing an ERP package, which include identifying needs, evaluating current processes, selecting a software package, and training users.
Roger Brathwaite is an experienced IT leader with over 20 years of experience managing and consulting on IT initiatives. He has led many large-scale service integration projects involving multiple vendors and business processes. Service integration involves integrating discrete IT services into coherent end-to-end services through governance, information sharing, and service level agreements. Brathwaite provides examples of two major service integration projects, one for an oil and gas company integrating asset management and one for a telecom company integrating global IT service delivery. He outlines his responsibilities and methodology for leading such projects from conception through deployment.
In this presentation, we will discuss the concept of ERP, scope and potentials of ERP software, meeting the business needs with ERP implementation, key terminologies and use of ERP across a complete business system.
To know more about Welingkar School’s Distance Learning Program and courses offered, visit: http://www.welingkaronline.org/distance-learning/online-mba.html
The document provides an overview of SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) including:
1) It discusses the organizational structure for maintenance planning including centralized vs decentralized structures.
2) It outlines the key master data used in SAP PM such as technical objects, work centers, maintenance plans, and tasks lists.
3) It describes some of the main maintenance processing scenarios in SAP PM like maintenance notifications, maintenance orders, and preventative maintenance planning.
Sage ERP X3 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that provides financial management, supply chain management, and customer relationship management capabilities. It allows for customization of workflows and data integration across multiple sites. While Sage ERP X3 enables multi-national companies to manage their operations globally, its user interface and reporting features lag behind some competitors.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) exists in every enterprise. It is often a low priority for IT managers until changes to the business make a very real, and very expensive, project. The real cost of a failed ERP initiative is IT careers. ERP is always challenging, so IT leaders must determine which of three strategies are most appropriate:
•Stick. Maintain the existing system and establish a date to revisit the strategy.
•Augment. Stay on the existing ERP platform, but augment with additional modules, custom development, or bolt-ons.
•Rip & Replace. Initiate the move to a new ERP system.
The best way to develop an ERP plan is through an annual audit that assesses the priorities of the enterprise and capabilities of the existing ERP platform. Use this storyboard and associated tools to get your ERP strategy on the right track.
Option One Mortgage Corporation implemented seleqtech solutions to improve decision making and reporting. The solutions delivered timely key performance indicators to business users through online tools. This information helped executives and management run the business and make profitable decisions. The solutions increased productivity, proficiency, and resource efficiency while improving operational costs, delinquency rates, strategic planning, service quality, and profit levels. seleqtech provided data integration and reporting capabilities to help clients make better business decisions.
Combining Oracle Primavera P6 with Oracle BI provides a single source of project data for analysis and reporting. P6 Analytics delivers out-of-the-box interactive dashboards and reports built on P6 data stored in an Oracle database. It provides over 80 prebuilt dashboards and allows business users to perform ad-hoc analysis. P6 Analytics integrates project data from multiple sources and helps uncover root causes of poor project performance through interactive and drillable reports and dashboards.
This document summarizes the evolution of electricity, computers, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software over time. It discusses how electricity production expanded from localized steam generators in the late 19th century to large nuclear power plants today. It also notes the development of early computers in the 1930s-1950s and the origins of ERP software with SAP in the 1960s-1970s. Finally, it examines trends in the ERP market and total cost of ownership considerations for ERP solutions.
The document discusses Cisco's implementation of an ERP system to replace its legacy applications that could no longer support the company's rapid growth. Cisco selected Oracle's ERP software and implemented it over 9 months on budget and on schedule. Key factors for the success included high-level support, cross-functional team involvement, limited customization, and addressing issues promptly during testing. The new ERP system provided centralized and scalable systems to support Cisco's continued expansion.
This document discusses a BPR intervention case study for Lorna Nigeria Limited, a hair extensions company that is part of the $3 billion Godrej Group. The company implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ERP hosted in the cloud to support its expansion to Ghana. The case study reviews the company's business processes before and after the ERP implementation, including production, inventory, sales, and customer relationship processes. It also discusses changes made to organizational structure and culture as part of the BPR intervention. The conclusion is that ERP implementation success depends on organizational size and culture, and that there is no single measure of ERP success.
Oracle is announcing unlimited ongoing development and support for its applications portfolio, including new versions of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel products that will provide customers choice and value. It is also detailing its Fusion strategy to deliver a next generation of integrated applications and middleware based on service-oriented architecture and grid computing that lowers costs through greater flexibility. Customers are encouraged to continue collaborating with Oracle through user groups and other channels to help drive the product roadmap.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is no longer just about financials. Clients now expect smarter tools for data management and integration.
Info-Tech reviews the leading solutions with a step-by-step guide on evaluating how they will provide value in YOUR environment
The document discusses Hyperion, an Oracle product for business performance monitoring and enterprise performance management. It provides an overview of Hyperion and its capabilities for planning, budgeting, forecasting, and managing performance. It also discusses versions, support timelines, and integration with other Oracle products like Oracle Data Integrator. Two Australian customer references are provided that have implemented Hyperion for sustainability reporting, analytics, and managing environmental performance.
This document provides guidance for CFOs considering moving an organization's ERP system to the cloud. It begins with definitions of cloud computing models and terms. It then discusses potential benefits of cloud ERP, such as cost savings, improved scalability, and enhanced security. Common concerns with cloud ERP are also addressed, like data security, ownership, and control. The document provides 35 questions for CFOs to consider in evaluating cloud vendors and solutions to understand related costs, capabilities, risks and flexibility.
Forrester Wave Report about Collaboration PlatformsAndré Schmid
Forrester recently released a new report on Collaboration Platforms.
Evaluated vendors include:
- Microsoft – SharePoint Server 2007
- OpenText – Open Text ECM Suite
- Atlassian – Confluence
- IBM Lotus
- MindTouch – 2009 Enterprise
This document provides an overview of Oracle Fusion Applications, a next-generation suite of enterprise applications built by Oracle. It describes the business and technology forces that drove the need for new applications, including growing user expectations, evolving business needs, and new models for technology adoption. The key capabilities of Oracle Fusion Applications are discussed, including how it combines best practices from Oracle's existing application portfolio and introduces new applications like the Accounting Hub, Talent Review, Territory Management, and Distributed Order Orchestration. The document concludes with a discussion of adoption strategies and recommendations.
The document provides an analysis of 18 document management solution vendors for SCAN Health Plan based on business needs and key requirements. 7 solutions were highlighted for further consideration: Hyland OnBase, Laserfiche, Microsoft SharePoint, M-Files, SpringCM Content Cloud Services, Newgen OmniDocs, and Alfresco. The vendor analysis evaluated solutions based on their organization profile, functional capabilities, technology attributes, total cost of ownership, and fit with SCAN's objectives of improving productivity, compliance, and customer service through centralized document management.
Top 10 Reasons to Choose Oracle ERP Cloud FinancialsLiz Kensicki
The top three reasons to choose Oracle ERP Cloud Financials are:
1) It works and provides a complete set of required feature functionality in a fully operational manner.
2) It leverages best-of-breed business flows based on years of ERP expertise to streamline processes.
3) It provides an enhanced reporting layer via the robust Oracle BI toolset to leverage transactional and multi-dimensional reporting.
Dabur implemented an ERP system called MFG/PRO for its outbound logistics to integrate its distribution network across multiple locations. It later implemented another ERP called BaaN for manufacturing. This led to data inconsistencies and high maintenance costs. In 2005, Dabur migrated to a single SAP ERP system implemented across all business units with help from Accenture to realize operational excellence and integrated decision making. Accenture also helped optimize Dabur's sales, supply chain, and ERP capabilities.
Nickelring Corp has developed a data analytics solution for small and medium enterprises. During the product development phase, they achieved several milestones including developing a system architecture, prototype, website, marketing plan, and financial analysis. Partnerships will be key to success. Next steps include finalizing the product, pricing, partnership agreements, and seeking initial capital.
Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management suite includes integrated applications that support strategic and financial performance management processes. The suite drives profitable growth by delivering predictable results, improving transparency, and increasing business alignment. It includes applications for planning, controlling, strategy execution, management enablement, accounting, and finance. Key applications include Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, and Hyperion Performance Scorecards. The suite leverages Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation and Fusion Middleware for integration and provides dashboards, reporting, and analysis capabilities.
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Comparative Study of Oracle GCS vs. Hyperion HFM
Overview:
This document is intended to illustrate some of the competitive differences between Oracle’s Global
Consolidation system (GCS) and Hyperion Solutions Financial Management (HFM). This document cites
multiple references from outside sources, customers, consultants, and research firms. Research data
contained in this document are attributed to their proper sources. In order to obtain credible opinions from
customers of Oracle and Hyperion, many users and administrators have chosen to go ‘off the record’ with
their comments – please treat these opinions as such. Any conclusions of this document are to be
considered the opinion of Pinnacle Technology Partners Inc. only.
Oracle GCS version 11i and Hyperion Financial Management 3.4 are the basis of comparison for this
evaluation. Pinnacle Technology Partners makes no guarantee that future versions of the software will
contain any of the features or functionality of neither the current product, nor those promised in future
versions by the vendors themselves. Some features and functionality may not be applicable or necessary
for all prospects but should not be disregarded as they are often a sign of the maturity of a product, or
signal the vendor willingness to develop customer focused solutions. It is recommended that you discuss
your consolidation and reporting needs with a Pinnacle representative before selecting any vendor or
product.
Required Features and Functions Available in GCS and HFM
Financial and Strategic Data
More than summarized financial information, the system must also store detailed strategic
information, such as product profitability analyses, regional analyses, and so on.
Flexible Chart of Accounts
To allow for versatile line of business reporting, the system must be able to keep a flexible, multi-
dimensional detail while still supporting a global account framework. Line item intelligence for
processing different account types is required.
Multiple Hierarchies
To allow for versatile management reporting, the system must be able to keep a flexible, multi-tiered
relational detail which supports the many hierarchies needed for internal and external requirements.
Data from Any Source
A critical function is collecting financial data from diverse systems and geographic locations, and
doing so accurately with an easy interface, yet a robust engine for ETL processing.
Accounting Calendars
Support is required for any accounting calendar such as calendar, fiscal, 4-4-5 or 13 month.
Aggregated reporting levels such as quarterly, year-to-date, and annually must be available.
Currency Translation
Functionality is required for Multi-currency translation that supports FASB 8 and FASB 52 reporting
and cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) analysis.
Flexible and Ad-hoc Reporting
Must allow creation of flexible production reporting as well as dynamic user prompt-driven reporting.
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The Market space:
Hyperion Financial Management
was rated superior to Oracle GCS in
the SPEX head-to-head Comparison
in 2002 evaluation. Oracle did not
even enter the 2003 evaluation.
HFM Oracle
Functionality 5.0 4.3
User friendliness 4.9 4.1
Technology 4.0 3.4
Market Strength 4.3 3.8
Overall 4.4 3.8
Source: META Group, March 2002
Oracle’s market share
within the business
intelligence space has
slowly diminished to a
distant seventh place.
Microsoft’s Analysis
Services became the
leading OLAP platform,
making Hyperion and
Cognos concentrate on
Business Performance
Management (BPM)
applications such as
HFM and Adaytum.
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1. Oracle Global Consolidation System - Oracle GCS (Version 11i) by Oracle Corporation
Overview:
Oracle Global Consolidation System is a distributed application for financial reporting, analysis, budgeting, and
planning. By integrating a central source of management data with powerful analytical tools, the system enables
organizations to meet their critical financial objectives - controlling costs, developing and analyzing performance
metrics, evaluating risks and opportunities, and formulating future direction.
Key Features:
Centralizes corporate data - Reporting capabilities at corporate, divisional, and operational levels
Enables dynamic access to data from a Web browser, allowing users to rotate and drill down on reports and
graphs, collect and write data back to the shared database
Built-in statistical and financial calculations create forecasts and calculate performance ratios
Delivers financial data and robust data analysis and collection tools throughout the organization: product
profitability, exception analysis, product mix analysis, variance analysis, funds allocation, activity based costing
Interfaces with existing ledgers, RDBMS, and spreadsheets
Users receive and write-back data that they are privileged to see
Intuitive data filtering simplifies exception reporting
Inherent drill and rotate capabilities display data intuitively
Integrates data from Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturing
General ledger and other data into can be incorporated to derive new financial information
Results of what-if analyses display immediately
Product Summary
Mode of Delivery: Packaged Application
Solution Classification: Budgeting, Financial Planning and Analysis
Target business size: Greater than 100 users
Pricing details: $1 to Indefinite
Operating Environment
Operating Systems SCO UNIX/PC UNIX
Supported: Windows XP/2000/NT
Implementation, Training, and Support
Implementation Description: IT Provider assistance in configuration
Training Description: Some training recommended - some training from the IT Provider/reseller
may be helpful.
Support Description: Web site support - product support questions, knowledgebase, are available
at the company Web site.
Email support - questions can be sent directly to a support staff for review.
Telephone support - calls can be placed directly to a support staff.
On-site support - a representative from the IT Provider/reseller can come to
the customer site.
General Information
Source code for this Closed
product is:
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2. Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) by Hyperion Solutions Corporation
Overview:
Designed for large-scale Web deployment, Hyperion Financial Management acts as a shared financial
resource for thousands of users across the enterprise so that they can collaborate in the day-to-day
management of the business. In the same application, users can produce auditable reports and forecasts for
external consumers, such as regulatory bodies, financial analysts, stakeholders and business partners.
Part of Hyperion Financial Analysis Solutions
Hyperion's world-class financial analysis solutions allow organizations to maximize the potential of their
corporate resources. W ith Hyperion Financial Analysis Solutions, finance staff will spend less time gathering
and processing information and more time analyzing financial results and supporting strategic decision
making. This yields competitive advantage and the agility to capitalize on business opportunities, acquire
additional capital and outperform their stakeholders' expectations.
Product Summary
Mode of Delivery: Packaged Application
Solution Classification: Budgeting, Financial Planning and Analysis
Distinguishing Features: With Hyperion Financial Management, organizations can:
-Develop value-focused strategies
-Link their financial plans to these strategies
-Monitor the execution of those plans to deliver the expected value
Key Features:
-Unified Financial Management radically reduces system maintenance and
eliminates the need to conduct lengthy reconciliations. Financial analysts
can determine the consequences of pursuing new opportunities, such as
exploiting global markets, opening e-commerce channels, or entering new
partner relationships. They can gather and consolidate historic results to
monitor the execution of their plans, analyze variances and model new
scenarios - all based on a universal set of measures and business rules.
-A Web-architected approach with centralized applications significantly
reduces the costs of deployment and maximizes the use of available IT
resources. Hyperion Financial Management employs a highly scalable
architecture that makes financial data and processes available to a wide
community of users via Windows? or a Web browser.
-Prepackaged functionality in an extensible framework provides the ability
to build on top of the extensive portfolio of functionality delivered within
Hyperion Financial Management using industry-standard tools. Customers
can make their applications fit their business processes without incurring
high costs and delays before seeing any benefit. It also allows them to
address a wide range of business functions within one application
framework, enhancing the ROI.
Investments in ERP, CRM and data warehouse systems are maximized
because Hyperion Financial --Management's robust application integration
technology acts as a source or target for data from these systems. Data is
quickly translated, consolidated, adjusted, finalized and reported, enabling
users to spend more time analyzing and less time processing data.
Target business size: Greater than 100 users
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Pricing details: $1 to Indefinite
Solutions are customized for the specific needs of clients.
Operating Environment
Operating Systems Windows XP/2000/NT
Supported: Windows 95/98/ME
Programming Languages HTML, VBScript
Supported:
Implementation, Training, and Support
Implementation Description: Consultant installation and configuration
IT Provider installation and configuration
IT Provider assistance in configuration
Customer installation and configuration
Implementation notes: Hyperion Consulting Services is designed to help maximize your return on
Hyperion products. Experienced Hyperion consultants help tailor solutions
to your particular reporting, analysis, modeling, and planning
requirements. Thorough reviews of the company's management cycle and
end-user goals shape implementation and project strategies. The right
resources are the keys to a successful implementation. Hyperion's staff of
MBAs and professional product-certified consultants is highly skilled, with
years of product, technical, and product management experience in a
multitude of business environments and industries. Hyperion consultants
complete a rigorous training, mentoring, and certification program that
ensures your organization receives the level and type of expertise needed
on every implementation.
Unparalleled Expertise:
Hyperion has the know-how and resources necessary for successful
implementation, enterprise integration, customization, project
management, consulting, and training. Hyperion's exclusive phase-by-
phase implementation approach, Structured Techniques for Assured
Results (STAR?), provides the framework to deliver solutions that meet
even your most complex business information requirements. Your
Hyperion projects are done right the first time, on time, and with minimal
risk. W e have:
-Over 17 years of experience focused exclusively on Hyperion product
implementations, and training
-Successfully implemented Hyperion solutions at thousands of client sites
worldwide
-Trained tens of thousands of users how to most efficiently use Hyperion
Analytic Application Software
The Ultimate in Choice and Flexibility
More than 350 Hyperion Alliance Partners supplement Hyperion's
technology, applications, consulting, and training expertise. Hyperion
works with these partners after carefully selecting them for the unique,
complementary skill sets they bring to the overall business engagements
of clients like you.
Training Description: Some training recommended - some training from the IT Provider/reseller
may be helpful.
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Training Notes: Discover how our award-winning training offerings and instructors
address the full spectrum of your training needs. W e offer classroom
training, as well as our easy and cost-effective e-Training, which includes:
Computer-based Training (CBT)
Web-based Training (W BT)
Virtual Classroom Training (VCT)
We also offer customized training solutions designed to ensure your
organization experiences a successful product rollout and smooth day-to-
day operations. For large-scale rollouts, Hyperion provides training-needs
analysis and creates an appropriate training and support strategy. W e
work closely with project managers to integrate this strategy with your
rollout schedules.
Support Description: Web site support - product support questions, knowledgebase, are
available at the company Web site.
Email support - questions can be sent directly to a support staff for
review.
Telephone support - calls can be placed directly to a support staff.
On-site support - a representative from the IT Provider/reseller can come
to the customer site.
Support Notes: Our award-winning support organization focuses on delivering timely and
accurate resolutions to our clients and partners. Expert support engineers
specialize in application and tools support to meet your critical business
needs. All of our support engineers are well versed in multiple Hyperion
products, making them skillful troubleshooters, able to offer you guidance
and useful tips on your full suite of products. Our web-based support
grants you access to our self-support tools and the ability to obtain
assistance.
We also offer additional services through our Enhanced Support
Offerings. Enhanced Support Offerings provide a range of additional
features for those customers with special support needs based on unique
geographical or time demands. These offerings allow you to obtain 7x24
production support, a dedicated support team, and/or customized service.
The Support Page enables clients to access important support and
product related information right from their desktops, any time of the day
or night. It contains the latest product news and release announcements,
documentation information, online product help, upgrades, and more. The
page also offers an alternate method for submitting requests for support
assistance. Access to the page is available to all clients who have current
maintenance contracts with Hyperion.
General Information
Source code for this product is: Closed
This product has been installed Healthcare
in these Industries: Computers and Technology
Education and Training
Banking and Finance
Retail and W holesale
Telecommunications
Insurance
Food and Beverage
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HFM Architecture is considered technically superior:
• N-tier architecture does not have much overhead to operate and gives incredible benefits like hardware
scalability, user load balancing, and failover – technically sound!
• Application server is Windows-based, but database can be on Oracle and Unix!
• Reports and Analyzer are Unix/Java-based
• Security – HFM stores no passwords and can operate with firewalls between any and all layers with ability to
authenticate against iPlanet and Active Directory as well as NTLM, you decide
• Win32-based user interface (‘fat client’) required for administrative functions and report creation
• Only production Reports, not Analyzer (Java applet) require fat client
• Administrative functions need fat client, 98% of users would just be using the web.
• HFM is only on NT and per platform will cost more to operate than having all financial application components
on a Unix processing platform
• Only the HFM application server needs to be NT-2000 based and that gives you flexibility and scalability as
well with hardware n-tier architecture and takes away the dependency on a single point of failure as the
application server carries to persistence of data or metadata (not a point of failure)
Conclusion: Hyperion HFM uses more current and robust technology that allow for
widespread deployment through increased scalability.
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HFM Maintenance is easier to use:
• Functions in HFM are performed in VB Script
– VBScript is an open and easy to learn logical way for finance folks to write business logic and
allocations, it is only the “wrapper” for pre-built functions
• EXAMPLE
If HS.Period.Number = 1 Then
HS.Alloc SourcePOV, DestPOV, EntityList, Factor-Expression, PlugAccount
End If
• Oracle uses PL/SQL, can the financial staff write logic like this easily when requirements change??
• EXAMPLE
OPEN c_companycode;
LOOP
FETCH c_ companycode into v_tempRecord;
IF (c_student%NOTFOUND) then
CLOSE c_ companycode;
EXIT;
END IF;
END LOOP;
Conclusion: Oracle GCS requires far more IT support for creating business rules and
application integration, but also for routine tasks such as report writing.
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Market Research:
In a recent meeting with Lee Geishecker from Gartner today, and she confirmed that there's nothing new under the
sun from Oracle, so I believe these points are still accurate. Product Management or Development would need to
check out some of the technical assertions in the like "NTLM non-standard net-bios ports", "unsigned Java Applets".
GCS (Global Consolidation System)
• Difficult set up and maintain vs. Hyperion Financial Management. GCS needs IT or specialists. Hyperion
Financial Management is built for the finance/accounting department, not IT. Do they want IT involved for each minor
change to the consolidation and reporting system?
• Difficult modeling vs. Hyperion Financial Management. GCS is Journals-based. Hyperion Financial
Management provides easy modeling of pro-forma scenarios. Do they want IT involved in creating a pro-forma income
statement or modeling acquisitions or divestitures?
• Weaknesses in Process Control vs. Hyperion Financial Management. Not easy to tell who has submitted and
who hasn’t, or if approved/rejected. How will the CFO ensure that the consolidation is properly reviewed and
approved? This is especially important because of Sarbanes Oxley.
• GCS Reporting also usually requires assistance from third parties or IT. Hyperion Financial Management
includes an easy to use report writer and several Excel interfaces. Do they want IT to be involved in creating each new
report?
GCS really only works well on an Oracle transaction system. Do they have other transaction systems? What if get
some others through acquisition? Are they ready to load up a dummy G/L company for this?
Global Intercompany System
• This is an intercompany invoicing system. Transaction–level Payables and receivables are matched. OK if all
business units share the same centralized ledger – but less useful if there are non-Oracle general ledgers. Hyperion
Financial Management provides equivalent matching capabilities across any number of general ledgers.
Financial Intelligence Portal
• Hyperion Analyzer is a superior tool – easier to set up and maintain. And it works across all Hyperion
products (Essbase, etc.)
• Finance users and executives create their own analysis and drill-down reports on-line with no assistance from
Finance or IT – “Self Service Finance”!
OFA (Oracle Financial Analyzer)
• OFA is a separate Budgeting/Planning Tool – Hyperion Financial Management is unified – so consolidation
features are available (intercompany, journals, currency, etc.)
• OFA is a “dead product” acquired from a third party with known weaknesses. Oracle is rewriting OFA from
scratch and making part of the 9i database. This will require all customers to re-write eventually.
“Aside from Discoverer (Oracle Relational Q&R Tool), Oracle’s 9i business intelligence (BI) tools
have had limited success. Their success outside Oracle’s installed base is even more limited.
We rate Oracle’s BI tools and strategy a caution.”
– Gartner – September 2002
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HFM vs. GCS Case Studies:
Company Hyperion Current Status
Contact *
Motorola Julie Madden Motorola is still rolling out HFM. They use the Oracle GL as their book of record but they
have had Hyperion since Micro-Control. A very similar story to many Hyperion clients,
success with Enterprise expanded the scope and use of the product until they overloaded it -
too much data and needed dimensionality. It was a logical progression to HFM. They felt
that Hyperion has the domain expertise when it comes to Financial applications and they
want as much out of the box functionality as they can get. They do not want to custom build
anything and they were faced with a lot of customization when they got under the hood with
Oracle. A large consideration was that Finance owns this application with minimal help from
IT to maintain the application, write reports, etc. - Using Hyperion is more 'empowering' for
the end user.
Alcoa Andy Stahl Alcoa is still rolling out HFM. They worked with to Oracle's development staff to outline their
requirements. Oracle said they Oracle would not have the same functionality as HFM 2.0
(HFM is now on release 3.4, until Oracle 12 comes out in several years. Alcoa has complex
intercompany - it's a manual process in Oracle and deferred tax eliminations were a chore.
They looked at OFA and laughed at it.
American Christine Strong American Express is rolling out HFM, after a comparison to GCS was conducted. The three
Express big factors for them were Scalability, Ease of Use, and Technology. HFM’s n-tier
architecture and web deployment was key to scalability. When it came to writing business
rules, allocations, and reports – most of HFM functionality was out of the box, whereas it
required programming effort in Oracle. Lastly, Hyperion’s technology fit their model for
security, scalability, and failover.
Campbell's Bob Stroble Rumor has it that approximately 9 months ago Oracle called together all of their big clients
Soup and told them they did not have a migration path from OFA to their new GCS platform –
everything would have to be rewritten. OFA was basically becoming extinct in Campbell
Soup's eyes and that obviously did not make them happy. IBM is currently doing an analysis
for them on how to change their business process, with the leading contender being an SAP
with HFM enterprise-wide solution, although no recommendation has been made yet.
Merrill Lynch Christine Strong Even though it’s an “Oracle Only” shop. Merrill is using Hyperion Performance Scorecard,
(Different than HFM), for some of their reporting and dashboarding needs. It is an Emperor’s
New Clothes situation where nobody will go on the record to discuss how bad Oracle is. The
folks in Corporate Finance HATE Oracle’s consolidation solution and feel it was forced down
their throats under the ‘one vendor = Oracle’ policy implemented by Alan Payne.
JPMorgan Mark Berry Alan Payne joined JPMorganChase as CIO in 2001 and quickly switched Chase to an Oracle
Chase only shop. Corporate Finance, who have a relationship with Hyperion since 1992, remarked
that GCS is still 3-4 years of development away from being the type of product that they need.
Still, the company is moving forward with GCS as a long term solution.
Monster.com Oracle ERP or general ledger clients who have implemented or are planning to implement
Mastercard HFM within the next year. GCS is not considered an option.
MBIA
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Conclusion:
As a Hyperion Gold Partner, our research may appear to portray a bias toward Hyperion and the HFM
Solution. This bias however, has also translated to market acceptance. While nearly 80% of the Fortune
500 use ERP systems such as Oracle for their transactional infrastructure, only 17% use the ERP vendor
supplied tools for analysis and reporting. This suggests a huge gap in capability and effort between the
product classes, and is something that we wish to highlight in importance.
In today’s world of Sarbane’s Oxley and IAS 2005 compliance requirements, we not only suggest – but
recommend the tool that empowers the business user most. The requirements of Oracle to perform
routine maintenance far surpass the technical abilities of the average business user. Current reporting
cycles require a flexibility and ease of use not found in the Oracle product at this time. Product offerings
from Hyperion, Cognos, and OutlookSoft clearly meet the needs of today’s business intelligence user, and
are generations ahead of their ERP or OLAP toolset equivalents.
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Notes:
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