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It has become a common requirement in multi-national organizations to collect budgets and forecasts in local currency and expect automated currency translation as part of their Hyperion Planning application. This is for good reason: the operating units don’t want the hassle of translating to reporting currencies, corporate FP&A needs to report group and consolidated forecasts […]

Hyperion Tax Provision is a powerful tool that leverages HFM capabilities and functionalities to streamline the tax close processes and enhance tax automation. Let us introduce HTP to tax departments as follows: HTP Product Overview & Key Benefits: The significant differences between HTP and its competition include: – Not a bolt-on point solution for most […]

I am often asked by clients and colleagues why Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning are so different.  It’s typically when they are struggling to build an interface between the two, and they can’t reconcile converted currencies.  So today I want to share some of the industry’s best practices that should be taken into consideration […]

Oracle recently released it’s January 2015 Critical Patch Update that includes 169 new security fixes across the following product groups: Oracle Database Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Applications – E-Business Suite Oracle Applications – Oracle Supply Chain, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Product Suite, Siebel and iLearning Oracle Communications Industry Suite Oracle Retail […]

Many companies struggle with creating effective, insightful budgets and forecasts. The existing processes for creating budgets and forecasts are often highly inefficient and outdated. Throughout my consulting career, I have come across several consistent mistakes that most companies make when setting up their planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. What I am sharing in this blog […]

There are many reasons why organizations look for a new Sales Force Automation (SFA) tool, lack of good user adoption is a predominant one for many organizations to look for an alternate system to what they have currently. As organizations, when you first implement a new or different solution, focusing on change management and user […]

Like many of us, I have run into several essbase errors while creating/testing/implementing new applications and scripts.   Some of the errors have useful information in the log files or the error code’s description clearly reveals where the error lies, but there are those codes which provide little to no information or the accompanying error message […]

If you look under the hood of top-performing companies who consistently beat analyst expectations, you’re likely to find that they have invested heavily in analytics and data management infrastructure to enable this real-time, competitive phenomena. If you’ve invested in Oracle BI Applications as a first step and now want to maximize that investment and be […]

In today’s data digitized world, no business or organization can survive, let alone thrive, without a solid data management and data analysis infrastructure. For several decades now, organizations have relied on platforms and analytics software to analyze their digital data in order to understand the health of their business, layout business and management strategies, identify […]

For Day Two of Oracle’s Leaders Circle, participants had the option to again select from a series of Industry summit programs or the Oracle Women’s Leadership Summit (OWL). I selected the OWL Program, not really knowing what to expect, hoping that it would not be more of the same ‘woe is me – a woman […]

I wanted to take an opportunity to share excellent insights while attending the Oracle Leader’s Circle Program while at Oracle OpenWorld 2014. Let me start with the Finance Session that kicked off Day One. This segment was co-sponsored by Deloitte Consulting. The morning’s first presentation – Modern Finance Best Practices in the Digital Age – was […]

Disparate data creates marketing complexity and lost revenue.  82% of enterprise marketers have no synchronized view of customer data.  The promise of having a 260 degree view of a customer is beautiful but it represents a big challenge. first party data – from you send party data- from your partners in the same ecosystem third […]