Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Performance Management’

Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE) is Oracle’s strategic product for integrating ERP systems with Oracle’s Hyperion EPM applications. It provides seamless integration of both master data and data between major ERP systems such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft GL, SAP and Hyperion EPM applications.  See the architecture diagram below:           […]

Have you ever wondered how much time you really spend on routine Planning admin tasks? Sometimes, a little trick can save you a lot of time with administrative chores. Here are my 5 favorite tips that you can use to simplify administrative tasks, and ensure that your PBCS application performs without a hitch. #1 – […]

  Are you currently thinking about migrating your existing on-premises Hyperion Planning application to the Cloud? Are you having reservations about what this process may entail? Well put your reservations aside! Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) makes the migration easy as it essentially has the same code base as on-premises Hyperion Planning release […]

“It looks so cool!” – That was my first impression of the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) simplified interface. The standard interface has proven easy enough to navigate, but now the simplified interface is even more intuitive and efficient to use. I trust most customers won’t have a steep learning curve when interacting […]

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 […]

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 […]

I think most healthcare entities are now moving to a more frequent budget cycle and if academic, they probably have to do a semi-annual legislative budget. They probably also at a minimum re-forecast based on updated actuals once a quarter. Is their value though to gathering actuals daily or weekly and adjusting tactical plans based […]

Is there a correlation between price transparency and cost? I read an article in the HFMA Strategic Financial Planning Newsletter recently about this and I can relate my personal experiences to it wholeheartedly. My observations are that hospitals segregate these two activities but I believe they are explicitly linked. I know there are many factors […]

Healthcare costs are rising at a faster pace than the economy is growing. Hospitals are often the focus of this concern, because they constitute the largest single component of healthcare spending. When looking at hospital costs, it is important to keep in mind that there are both direct and indirect expenses that contribute to the […]

Hopefully you all had a chance to read my previous post, “Types of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Repositories.”  As this will give you a high level understand of the ODI master repository.  I wanted to put together this short post, because due to my recent experience with ODI I was very surprised with how very […]

As I have been putting together my ODI blog posts I wanted to put together another post discussing the different types of ODI repositories, “Master and Work.”  But the repository I want to touch upon the most in the “Work” repository and the different options the ODI work repository has to offer.   Now before I get into […]

This will probably be one of my shortest posts on ODI, but I figured if I am covering  pretty much all the basics of ODI, it would be good to show you how to use ODI’s scheduler and also show you how to schedule your ODI load plans. As title of the post states “Oracle […]