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When building an HFM application, one of the application settings is Node Security which is either Parent or Entity. What is the difference between these two choices? Selecting “Entity” means that user access is defined strictly by entity security while “Parent” means that user access considers Parent security. To illustrate assume the following: The user […]

Promoting a base entity to a parent entity in Hyperion Financial Management application should be avoided. Parent data are normally the summation of all the “Contribution Total” from its children. Parent entities do not have its own data in HFM other than adjustments if entity dimension attributes allow adjustments at parent level. In an existing […]

A client in the manufacturing industry I was working with recently upgraded from Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) version 9.3 to 11.1.2.4. Their application design in V9.3 served their management reporting needs so well that they required the same functionality in 11.1.2.4. Managerial reporting is very important to the client in addition to their statutorial reporting requirements. […]

Happy New Year!  Hope 2017 is off to a great start for you! Eloqua has a release coming in the next few weeks.  Breakdown of which PODs are when… POD2 is January 10th POD7 is January 13th POD6 is January 13th POD3 is January 15th POD4 is January 20th POD1 is January 22nd If you […]

Finance Transformation has been a catchphrase in the enterprise performance management (EPM) industry for several years. But what does finance transformation mean exactly? From our perspective, it begins with the marriage of modern, digital technologies with a strong governance philosophy. When this occurs, a finance organization is transformed into a prescient voice shaping business strategy. […]

As businesses expand into new areas of marketing they’re adopting hybrid applications, both on-premises and cloud, to support their growing needs. But multiple applications silo customer information across the business, limiting a 360-degree view of the customer and the ability to analyze different marketing initiatives. Join us for this encore presentation delivered at Oracle OpenWorld […]

Closing the General Ledger is the final step in the period close process. Now that we have reviewed the close process for the Financials subledgers (see previous blogs), you will now see how it all comes together in the ledger. Steps that are not included in this review are those involving the Procurement and Project […]

When closing Cash Management, the steps can slightly vary depending on whether or not your business has automatic or manual bank statements and reconciliations. The overall process is as follows for either process being used: Load bank statements as your business process requires, whether this be manual or automatically from your bank. Reconcile the statements. […]

In December, Oracle released an update to ICS. Here I call out some new features worth noting: Integrations can now be scheduled to run and accept iCal expressions Expression Builder XPath enhancements support XPath axis and wildcard expressions REST 1.2 support Custom adapter upload and registration for those who create their own adapters Mapping errors […]

While working with ICS, I’ve seen the following issues come up very occasionally: Integrations fail to activate with large stack traces Connection test fails with a general error immediately, without a timeout What works for me in these cases is to log out of the browser session and restart the browser.

Closing the Fixed Assets module should be a quick and painless process each month. As most Oracle ERP users know, the module only allows for one period to be opened at a time, and once you close the period you can never re-open it again. I guess this can be both a good and bad […]

Leads, they need to be assigned to ‘someone’, but where and how that happens can sometimes be tricky. I want to take the trick out of it and make it digestible. It’s finding the right place to manage the lead assignment process and who can maintain it. Lead assignment doesn’t have to be complicated, there […]