An insightful guide to understand all about Enterprise Performance Management & the Components of EPM Suite in Hexaware’s E-book on Oracle EPM.

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2. 1. What is meant by Enterprise Performance Management? 1 Click
2. Why would an organization get interested in the EPM concept? 1 Click
3. Components of EPM Suite and the key vendors in the market. 3 Click
4. The Oracle EPM system architecture 4 Click
5. Explain the products of Oracle EPM suite and its specialties? 6 Click
6. How EPM Integrate closely with ERP Systems? 7 Click
7. How easy is it to integrate the Oracle EPM with Microsoft Office? 8 Click
8. Can you elaborate on the reporting side or tools as part of Oracle EPM? 9 Click
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3. 1 What is meant by Enterprise Performance Management?
Competive
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an emerging management Advantage
discipline mainly focusing on supporting management processes on strate- MANAGEMENT
gic, financial and operational level activities. It supports those management EXCELLENCE
processes that let you debate and decide what you want to do and how you
will do it, and connect those models and plans with gathering and under-
standing what actually happened and why it happened. EPM is a Discipline
that enables management to,
• Link Strategies to plans and execution
OPERATIONAL
• Monitor Financial and operational results against goals EXCELLENCE
• Applying analytics to drive Enterprise-wide performance improvement
2 Why would an organization get interested in the EPM concept? Time
To achieve management excellence, organizations need to standardize, Let us examine some of the key benefits that can be achieved through EPM
automate, and integrate their management processes and implement the implementation from business perspective and how digital dashboards
right solution to optimize them. EPM applications support a broad range of produce a view into measuring and monitoring action and results
strategic and financial performance management processes to enable man-
• Believe in the numbers and report with confidence.
agement excellence, delivers information quickly to support business goals,
• Set accurate expectations and anticipate results.
provide visibility into the business and ensure agility and the ability of the
• Deliver the right visibility to the right people at the right time, and hold
business to respond to changes. EPM Solution in an organization eliminates,
them accountable for results.
• Inconsistency in business decisions. • Goal Alignment.
• Lack of business alignment and. • Increased business agility.
• Low predictability in performance. • Comprehensive regulatory compliance.
• Improved consolidation process.
• Streamlined reporting.
• Collaborative management.
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4. 3 Components of EPM Suite and the key vendors in the market. 4 The Oracle EPM system architecture
The EPM market is populated with many vendors, some offering a broad
range of solutions, while others have limited, specific point applications. The
goal of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (Mar 2011) is to present a global view of
the main vendors that offer broad EPM suites that should be considered by
organizations seeking to implement an EPM strategy. There has been a
change in the scope of functionality included in the EPM suite market last
year. Gartner has increasingly seen aspects of financial governance become Financial Close & Planning &
Reporting Forecasting
integrated and implemented in conjunction with core EPM, especially in sup- BI Applications
port of the financial close and disclosure processes. The expanded applica- Profitability Strategy
tion components of an EPM suite are, therefore, as follows: Management Management
• BP&F – Budget Plan and Forecast Common Enterprise Inforamation Model
• PM&O – Profitability Management and Optimization.
• Strategy Management. Business Intelligence Foundation
• Financial Consolidation and Close.
• Financial and Management Reporting and Disclosure. Fusion Middleware
Information Delivery Layer: This Layer provides a complete set of Informa-
tion delivery and access capabilities, which are designed to address the
different needs of the users.
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5. EPM and BI Application Layer: This Layer includes an integrated suite of real time what-if scenario modeling for making business decisions.
market leading performance management applications that are based on the Profitability and Cost management – drives business performance by discov-
Hyperion product suite. This Layer also consists of integrated BI applications ering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and
that can help analyze data from ERP and CRM Applications. flexibility, and improving resource alignment. Identify sources and attributes
BI Foundation Layer: The EPM and BI applications are integrated on a BI of profitability with multidimensional analysis and improve decisions with sce-
Foundation that includes the following, nario modeling capabilities
• Common enterprise information model
Related Products:
• Powerful, forward looking analytics with Oracle Essbase
• Ability to integrate data from Oracle, non-Oracle databases and Essbase – is an OLAP server and the engine behind Hyperion applications.
transactional systems It has the most highly advanced calculation engine with a comprehensive
• Enterprise dimension management library of functions and extensive financial intelligence. It also provides Opti-
• Predictive analytics engine mized storage and promises a premium performance.
Oracle FDQM – is a packaged application for Financial Data movement from
5 Explain the products of Oracle EPM suite and its specialties? any data source to any Hyperion application. Its data preparation server can
ease integrating and validating financial data from any of your source sys-
Core Products: tems (EBS, PeopleSoft, etc.). It incorporates required regulatory compliance
Oracle Hyperion Planning – is a web based budgeting and forecasting tool and financial best-practices including: Account Mapping & Audit ability, Drill-
which sits on top of Hyperion Essbase. This helps integrating financial and Through to Source-Systems and Files, Scheduling and Automation, Pre-
operational planning and improves business predictability. Built Audit Reports
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management – is a financial consolidation tool. It Essbase Analytic Link – EAL for Hyperion Financial Management enables
improves closing and reporting process and helps reduce internal risk con- the delivery of effective management and financial analytic reporting to a
trols. broad user community. It integrates and merges multiple operational data
Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance – helps perform quick what-if impact sources into a single data model, providing detailed information for analytical
analysis using alternate consolidative rollups of ‘what-if’ models. It plays a measurements (KPIs) and the application of advanced analytics. Merging
critical role in linking strategy and target setting, to bottom up plans, while financial and operational information in a single platform makes it easy to
FP&A groups and business unit owners use it for long range forecasting and deliver a comprehensive management reporting environment.
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6. Oracle Data Integrator – is a comprehensive data integration platform that
covers all data integration requirements: from high-volume, high-
performance batch loads, to event-driven, trickle-feed integration processes,
Financial EPM Workspace
to SOA-enabled data services. Close
New products as of the latest release (v11.1.2.1) Financial Reports
Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management – Allow organization to Planning &
Forecasting Smart View
define, execute, and report on the interdependent activities of a financial FDM
close period.
Strategy
Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management – Allows organization to assemble Planning
a reporting package for submission to a stake holder that includes financial
statements, as well as supporting schedules and commentary which exists in Profitability
Excel, Word, and a Financial Reporting document. Management
6 How EPM Integrate closely with ERP Systems?
FDM’s ERP Integrator (ERPI) module supports ERP adapter data integration
7 How easy is it to integrate the Oracle EPM with Microsoft Office?
to Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and
SAP including the ability to drill-back into transaction system details. Meta
Smart View provides a Microsoft Office integration designed specifically for
data may also be loaded from Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft
Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelli-
Financials to EPM applications.
gence (BI). It is a component of Hyperion Foundation Services. Using Smart
View, you can view, import, manipulate, distribute and share data in Micro-
soft Excel, Word and PowerPoint interfaces. The key capabilities of Smart
View are,
• Data access from Relational or Multi-Dimensional sources.
• Report Creation in Excel, Word and PowerPoint using EPM and BI data.
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7. 8 Can you elaborate on the reporting side or tools as part of Oracle EPM Business Intelligence & Analytics
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR) – HFR provides a comprehen- Our Business Intelligence & Analytics solutions help you transform
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