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Knowledge Matrix, an ISO 9001:2008 certified Company, headquartered in California, USA with offshore presence in Hyderabad, India, provides custom IT solutions to businesses of all sizes. Knowledge Matrix’s clients represent a multitude of industries, spanning such diverse verticals as Technology, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, Construction, Energy & Utility, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Education, and Pharmaceuticals.
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Webinar: Hyperion Enterprise to HFM
1. Making the Transition Hyperion Enterprise to Hyperion Financial Management
February 28, 2013
2. Agenda
Welcome and Introductions
Hyperion Enterprise – End of an Era
Understanding HFM
Comparing the platforms – HE versus HFM
Migration considerations and processes.
Emtec HE Migration Roadmap Program
Questions (and Answers)
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3. Emtec… ‘Big enough to do the work, small enough to care’
EMTEC THE COMPANY
• Serving clients for over 46 years
• 14 locations, including 8 development centers
• Voted One of the Top 100 Places to Work by Cranes
Chicago in 2012
• Our consultants have an average of 14 years of
experience. Nearly 45% have advanced certifications
• 73% of our PMs, Architects & Consultants worked at Tier
1 consultancies in a previous life
• $255M IT Services Provider
• Regularly compete & win against larger IT service
providers
US Locations
• Radnor, PA (HQ)
• Atlanta, GA
• Chicago, IL
• Dayton, Ohio
• Freemont, CA
• Jacksonville, FL
• Herndon, VA
• Minneapolis, MN
• Springfield, NJ
• St. Louis, MO
THE
WORLD
Global Offices
• Toronto, Canada
• Ottawa, Canada
• Pune, India
• Bangalore, India
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• Emtec has completed more than 1,100 Package Application
engagements, including:
-
• Over 1,000 full-time professionals
EMTEC AROUND
EMTEC SERVICES AT A GLANCE
200+ Oracle clients with more than 415 engagements
-
206 EPM / Hyperion & OBIEE clients and 323 engagements
-
186 Microsoft Dynamics and more than 255 projects
• Emtec is a premier provider of SaaS and Emerging
technologies consulting, including 51 Salesforce Clients with
more than 75 engagements, Including Sales Cloud, Service
Cloud and Custom Cloud
• Emtec has performed more than 6.3M hours of application
development and maintenance work ranging from Business
Analysis to Product Development
• Emtec has served more than 565 Infrastructure services
clients where we have:
-
Deployed more than 1.85M servers, personal computers, tablets
and mobile devices
-
Installed or provided more than 925 exabytes of storage
(That’s a whole lot…)
-
Triaged more than 30,000 L1 support incidents
-
Implemented service management solutions for more than 125
clients
3
4. Emtec’s five practice areas offer focused solutions to help our clients solve complex
business & IT challenges
From up-front strategy & consulting all the way to application, infrastructure & procurement services,
Emtec’s 1,000 professionals are what makes us special, and we invite you to see the difference for yourself.
Consulting Services
• IT Strategy & Planning
• IT Process Improvement
OFFERINGS
• IT Performance and
Governance
• Information Management:
− Big Data
− Business Intelligence
− Analytics
• Mobility Solutions
• Program and Project
Management
Package Application
Services (PAS)
Cloud Technologies
Application
Development &
Management Services
(ADMS)
Infrastructure
Services
• Oracle
− Fusion
− EBS
− PeopleSoft
− EPM : Including Hyperion
− OBIEE
• Cloud Strategy & Planning
• Portfolio Analysis
•
IT Service Mgmt.
• Salesforce.com Solutions
− Sales Cloud
− Service Cloud
− Marketing Cloud
− Force.com
• Application Advisory
Services
•
Data Center
•
Business Application
Infrastructure
•
End User Computing
• Microsoft
− AX and GP
− BI
− CRM
• Workday
•
Platforms
• Package Application:
Development, Maintenance
& Support
• SAP
• Functional: HCM, FM, SCM
• Cloud Application
Development
& Technology
• Private Virtual Cloud
• Cloud Applications
• Product Development
• Custom Application
Development & Maintenance
• Mobile solutions
• Quality Assurance & Testing
Services
PRACTICE FACTS
• Managed Services, Capacity
Management & Staffing
Services
• SWAT team of 45 highly
skilled Strategists, Architects
and Consultants
• 10 years of experience and
more than 75 projects
• 180 Specialists, including
Project Managers, Architects,
Consultants and Analysts
• More than 300 ERP & CRM
projects completed
• Expert team of Big Data,
business intelligence and
analytics professionals
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• Specialized team of 25
Strategists, Project Managers,
Architects, and Consultants
• More than 90% certified
• 62 Customers & 112
engagements
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• Global workforce of nearly 750
associates (approximately 250
associates based in North
America)
• Provided more than 6.3M
hours of application
development and
maintenance services.
• Special expertise in Business
Analysis and Testing (among
other things)
• More than 100 associates
providing data center,
compute, network and storage
related services
• Value Add Reseller providing
full device lifecycle
management services for
more than 30 years
• IT Service Mgmt. BU having
supported more than 70
distinct clients
5. The Most EPM Experience = The Right Partner
•
•
Hyperion Certified:
•
Planning
HFM
Essbase
•
•
One of the premier full-service EPM strategic implementation firms…
Providing value-add Managed Services such as Business Process Assessments,
Product Roadmap Strategies, Technology Evaluations, Staff Augmentation, etc.
A Six Step Implementation Methodology to insure Success:
Analysis, Design & Planning, Build Phase, Test Phase, Roll-Out Phase & Post
Implementation Support & Review
Serving Fortune 1000 companies & large scale, enterprise-wide implementations as
well as Mid-Market organizations
Deep knowledge and expertise with finance business processes and delivering focused
EPM solutions
Reporting and Analysis
Financial
Consolidation
•Design & Implementation
•Financial Management (HFM)
•Financial Reporting & Analysis
•Financial Data Quality Management
(FDQM)
•Disclosure Management
•Financial Close Module
•Financial Account Reconciliation
•HE to HFM Migrations
Budget, Planning &
Forecasting
Essbase
Custom Applications
•Design & Implementation
•Hyperion Planning
•Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
• Workforce Planning, Project
Financial Planning & Capital Asset
Planning
•Financial Data Quality Management
(FDQM)
•Oracle Data Integration (ODI)
•Design & Implementation
•Specific Application Build
•Profitability Analysis
•Sales and Expense Analysis
•Marketing Analysis
•Customer Analysis
•Other Custom Applications
•Essbase Analytics Link (EAL)
Infrastructure Services
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Business
Intelligence
•Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
•BI Foundation Suite (BIFS)
•Oracle BI Applications
•Oracle Database Relationship
Management (DRM)
•Mobile Delivery
6. Russ Rogers – National Practice Director HFM Delivery
Russ Rogers is a veteran of the software consulting industry with twenty years of experience delivering solutions to clients
in the Enterprise Performance Management space.
After beginning his career in accounting and finance with the Coleman Company, he joined a still small company known as
IMRS, which grew to become Hyperion Solutions. He spent 9 years at Hyperion starting at the consultant level and holding
increasingly senior positions eventually becoming Director of Performance Management Consulting building a consulting
practice supporting Performance Scorecard and Business Modeling.
After leaving Hyperion Solutions in 2002, Russ founded and managed CTECH, a consulting firm focused on mid-market
Hyperion clients. Russ has also worked for firms such as IBM and The Hackett Group in senior services positions prior to
joining Emtec.
A seasoned hands-on professional, Russ has been involved in more than 250 implementations and is an expert in Financial
Consolidations and Reporting and Hyperion Financial Management. His client focused approach and experience through
the entire client life cycle of sales, implementation, deployment and support of solutions across a spectrum of industries
brings a unique view to technology discussions.
Russ has a B.B.A. in Accounting from Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas and has achieved Certified Public
Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and Oracle Certified Professional designations. He currently holds
certifications in HFM as well as Oracle EPM Sales and Oracle EPM Support.
Russ resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
Email: Russell.Rogers@emtecinc.com
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7. Hyperion Enterprise The End of an Era
IMRS
MicroControl
Introduced in
1982
• Dos Based
• 1st PC Based
consolidation
system
IMRS Hyperion
Introduced in
1992 (Hyperion
1.5).
• Windows
• Client/Server
• Drives company
name change to
Hyperion. Product
renamed
Enterprise
• Proprietary DB
• WYSIWYG report
writer
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Hyperion releases
Financial
Management in
1998
• Thinner Client
• Web Based
• Server Based
Processing
• Enterprise
continues to
evolve adding
limited server
based processing.
7
Hyperion releases
final version of
Enterprise 6.5
Product
support ends
May 1, 2013
• Patch releases
• Not available for
continue
download
• Limited Support
• No ‘hotline
announced several
support’
times
• HFM 11.1.2.2 now
• Final release 6.5.1
the standard
installation
• EPM 11.x platform
platform
released by
Oracle.
8. Hyperion Enterprise The End of an Era
•Typical Usage of Hyperion Enterprise
Hyperion
Reporting
Reports and
Books
Transformation
• LedgerLink
• UpStream
(FDQM)
Ledger
Sources
Enterprise
Data Entry
Journals (?!?!?!)
Logic
Consolidations
External Data
• Schedules
• HPLNK(Retrieve)
Hyperion
Retrieve
Hyperion
Analyst
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9. Hyperion Enterprise The End of an Era
Support Issues Going Forward
Support for FDM
Connectors stops
Hyperion
Reporting
Reports and
Books
Transformation
• LedgerLink
• UpStream
(FDQM)
Ledger
Sources
SOX and Change
Management
Support Issues
Enterprise
Data Entry
Journals (?!?!?!)
Logic
Consolidations
External Data
• Schedules
• HPLNK(Retrieve)
Office support for
future versions
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Server OS Support
Fat Client Support
Issues
Sites
9
Hyperion
Retrieve
Hyperion
Analyst
10. Hyperion Enterprise The End of an Era
• Key Issues with Remaining on Hyperion Enterprise
–Unsupported by Software Vendor
–Platform Support
–Escalating support costs
–Compliance Issues
• Key Issues to Consider with Migration to HFM
–Cost of Entry, Licensing Changes
• Environments
• User Audit
–Hardware and Environment
• Ownership
• External Hosting/ On Demand / Managed Services
–Solution Build Costs
• Scope
• Resources
–Timeframes
• Scope
• Organizational Drivers
• Historical Data Validation
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11. Understanding Hyperion Financial Management
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management – More than just next generation of HE
–Web-based application, purpose built for consolidations and reporting,30 years of experience
–Workspace Portal
–Key Functionality includes:
• Eliminations into separate reportable dimension
• Foreign Currency Translation – out of the box
• Adjustments – usable journals module and dimensional reporting capability
• Custom Calculation , Consolidation and Aggregation capability through rules
• Multi-dimensional capabilities now includes Smart Dimensions – 12+ from ~3 in HE
• Process Management and Task flow Automation
–Latest technology multi-tier architecture
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management
–Web Based Data Transformation and Control
–Key Functionality includes:
• Ability to import from multiple formats
• Auditable control mechanisms
• Out of the box connectivity to HFM
–Drill through from HFM
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12. Understanding Hyperion Financial Management
• Oracle Hyperion Shared Services
–Single point user management, access control and security
–Single sign-on support from Active Directory providers
–User reporting, logging
• Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio
–Production reporting capability
–Object based reporting tool allows access to all Hyperion products HFM, Planning, Essbase
–Report automation and sharing
• SmartView for Office
–SmartView provides all MS Office product support
–Very thin client web access based tool for remote users
–SmartView provides task flow support for HFM Activities
–Ad Hoc reporting
–Formula Based Reporting
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13. Understanding Hyperion Financial Management – Consolidations Deployment Model
FDQM
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Data
Sources
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Out of the Box
Connectivity
Data Transformation
Mapping
Validation
Commit to HFM
HFM WorkSpace
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Tasks
Application
Management
Automation
Process
Management
EPM WorkSpace
Data
Sources
SmartView for Office
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Excel Formula Based Reporting
Excel Ad-Hoc Analysis
Task Flow
Supplemental Data
Journal Reporting
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Application Access
HFR Reports
SmartView Reports
Module Access
Personalized Content
14. Understanding Hyperion Financial Management
• HFM Dimension Notes
– 12+ Dimensions - This is dependent on your DB Software. While some concepts appear to map on a one-to-one basis
the application of these dimensions allows much more flexibility and differentiation.
– Entity
• Organization by Period
• Consolidation/Contribution/Proportion Rules
– Scenario
• Multi-year
– Account
• Intercompany Partner determined by Entity
• Custom Dimensions 1 Through x (Oracle 5, SqlSvr 8)
– View
• MTD/YTD/QTD
– Value
• Elimination / Contribution / Proportion
• Currency
• Default Parent and Currency Concept
– Year
– Period
• So ….. How do they compare?
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15. Comparing the platforms – HE versus HFM
HFM Dimension Notes
Directly Comparing the two platforms can be a challenge. At the core the systems operate in a similar manner.
However, each concept has a different place. Let’s examine them dimension by dimension with certain issues
in mind.
Entity Dimension
This dimension is similar in that it is the basic block within both HFM and HE. The differences
come into play in adjustments, eliminations and FX translation areas. Within HE a separate entity
is required for each of these concepts yielding a structure similar to this:
This required multiple organizations that were
difficult to maintain and even more difficult to
keep in sync.
Logic assignments were also required to
separately handle all (even default) translations.
Eliminations were difficult to change
Within HFM this functionality has split to
multiple dimensions allowing a much more
flexible approach.
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16. Comparing the platforms – HE versus HFM
The HFM Entity Dimension will look
much different. But the basic
concept is the same as HE.
However the functionality is split
between the Entity and Value
Dimensions
TOTAREA
ENT1
HFM Value Dimension
<Entity Currency Total>
<Entity Currency Adj>
<Entity Currency>
<Parent Currency>
<Parent Currency Adj>
<Parent Currency Total>
USD
USD ADJ
USD Total
EURO
EURO ADJ
EURO Total
<Elimination>
<Proportion>
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ENT2
AREA_ADJ
17. Comparing the platforms – HE versus HFM - Accounts
The account dimension is very similar within the two products. The main difference is the additional custom
dimensions available with HFM. The intercompany partner concept has also been separated into it’s own
dimension allowing greater detail for intercompany accounts in addition to non-intercompany accounts.
Enterprise
HFM
Attributes – Income, Expense, Asset,
Liability
Same Concept
Foot Down COA Flow
Hierarchy Roll-up Flow
Limited to 2 levels of sub-account
Limited to number of custom
dimensions within application (2-4+)
Intercompany Accounts limited to
single level sub-account
All custom dimensions available to
intercompany accounts
Limited to 32,000 account/subaccount combinations
No theoretical limit on accounts or
custom levels used for accounts.
Account Calculated or Input
Formulas required for subtotals and
totals
Account can be designated as
calculated or can contain both
calculated and non-calculated
values
Hierarchies automatically aggregate
and aggregation can be controlled.
No shared members
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18. Comparing the platforms – HE versus HFM – Scenarios and Categories
These dimensions operate similarly. However the separation of data buckets from the time periods allows a
much greater flexibility. It also reduces year-end maintenance in areas such as reporting and roll-over
processing.
Enterprise
Single time frame
HFM
All application years available for
each scenario
Prior Scenario
Formulas required to add scenarios
together. Prohibitive processing
times shifted this to export/load
procedure
Not required
Hierarchies can be used to
aggregate scenarios.
Efficient rules may also be used to
blend scenarios.
Year end rollover required
Formula set limited to one per
category
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No Rollover required
Rules by scenario offer complete
flexibility for calculations.
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19. Migration Considerations – Real Issues Solved
I asked my team the question: “what are the real issues in Enterprise that are solved by HFM,
what gives you the most benefits?” I compiled the hundreds of items into some common
themes. In some cases I’ve quoted them directly (Thanks Team!)
–Security
• Real Support for external authentication
• Security concept much easier to implement and follow at all levels
• Audit-able
–User Support Issues
• “Error: Consolidation/Data Load failed due to changes made by another user “ No longer an issue.
• “True thin client architecture eliminates the need for jury-rigging connectivity. Sites, Citrix, remote desktop goes away”
• IT Desktop rollout can be packaged.
– Year End Rollovers
• Scenarios operate as a continuum. No rollovers are required.
• No report maintenance effects
– Application Structure
• Reduction in entity structure – faster consolidations, better recognition and understanding
• Hierarchy structures – better aggregation, inherent drilldown, more control
• ‘Detail is no a problem’
– Data
• Stability is “night and day”! There is no such thing as data category corruption like in Hyperion Enterprise resulting in data loss
and setbacks and the need for data restores. I have never seen scenarios get corrupted in any way
• The Custom dimension allow for data separation that reduces the need for reconciliations.
• The connection to FDQM allows for seamless handling of data.
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20. Migration Considerations – The Path Forward
Create a roadmap for Consolidations and Reporting Strategy
Take advantage of the opportunity to re-think your HE implementation.
Resist the temptation to ‘Port HE to HFM’
Engage in change. All levels of your organization have a stake in the effort.
Choose the right team – internally and externally.
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21. Emtec’s HE to HFM Migration Roadmap Program
This program provides an in-depth review of your current processes and desired future state. The delivered migration
roadmap will help you understand the drivers, issues and opportunities available toward improving and enhancing your
current consolidation process by migrating to HFM. Take advantage of this most important first step in the migration of
HE to HFM.
This program is tailored for each client but a standard engagement is as follows. In this example, the first three and the
last day occur on-site.
Day1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day4-5
Day 6
Consolidations and Reporting Processes
-Close process
-Eliminations process
-Organizational Activities
Data Processes
-Ledger and System Generated Data
-Supplemental and manual data
Reporting Requirements
-Production Reporting
-Ad-Hoc Analysis and Drill Down
-Downstream Systems
Analysis and Documentation
-Roadmap
-Project Plan
-Effort Estimate
Presentation to Group
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22. Hyperion Enterprise to Hyperion Financial Management Migration
•Next Steps
For more information regarding HE to HFM Migration please contact
Erica Archer @ erica.archer@emtecinc.com or 312-216-4911.
•Questions and Answers
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