Posts Tagged ‘Hyperion’

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage that rings very true to those of us who are vision-driven learners. Simply hearing and reading about a solution is usually not enough. Many of us “need to see to believe” the benefits being promised by any solution. Oracle and Perficient understand this concept very […]

Oracle’s EPM Cloud December release contains some exciting new features for EDM. Many of the features are centered on enhancing the capabilities of building Expressions within the solution. For those not familiar with expressions in EDM… Expressions enable developers to define business logic to manage data. Expressions can be used within properties to transform data, […]

Oracle EPM customers need to prepare for several upcoming changes for November 2021. These changes are mentioned in the Important Actions and Considerations section of the October Update documentation. The documentation can be found here. While the updates highlighted in this post are not critical in nature, administrators and power users should be aware in […]

Starting with the 20.09 update, Oracle will cease supporting Internet Explorer as a compatible browser for EPM Cloud applications. This will leave Edge, Chrome, and Firefox ESR as the remaining supported browsers for Windows users. The move away from Internet Explorer is due to the fact that Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 11 is […]

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) cloud roadmaps are expanding rapidly across organizations and industries. It’s becoming more and more common to see multiple cloud EPM applications being implemented; Oracle Planning, Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close, Oracle Profitability and Cost Management, etc. And while the number of applications being implemented by organizations are increasing, so is the […]

Financial analysts are often looking for a daily tracker of their organization’s sales. Daily sales tracking requires bench-marking against budgets and forecasts. However, it is often the case that plans are defined at a higher level compared to actuals. In addition, while actuals are available from ERP, plans are maintained in a separate application for […]

Are you looking to supplement your Oracle EPM applications with enhanced analytics capabilities? At Perficient, we have successfully implemented analytics solutions that complement both on-premises Hyperion applications as well as Oracle EPM Cloud business processes: Planning and Budget Cloud Service, Financial Consolidation & Close Service, and Essbase Cloud. Our methodology requires minimal data movement leveraging […]

The Oracle EPM suite provides best-in-class business process applications when it comes to activities such as financial planning, consolidation and period-end close. Organizations are often looking for ways to easily incorporate financial information, out of EPM applications, into consolidated reporting with other systems (such as ERP, Sales, HR, and others). Also, there is great value […]

Perficient presents at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 – live from the show floor, the GM of Perficient’s EPM practice summarizes what’s supported, which features are being deprecated, and what’s coming in the future. If you are an existing Hyperion customer, this 10-minute video will be time well spent. Oracle is making a commitment to its customers […]

The recent updates for Oracle’s Enterprise Data Management platform offers a few new features to be aware if considering implementing the tool. Inclusion of Financials Cloud General Ledger Users can now manage descriptive flexfields (DFFs) for Financials Cloud General Ledger. Descriptive flexfields can be registered for Financials Cloud General Ledger applications and/or segments. The registration […]

Using substitution variables to store folder directories and then referencing the variables in calc scripts/business rules has long been a best practice in the world of on-prem applications. For example, using a variable to store the path to a shared folder for a dataexport command. DATAEXPORT “File” “|” “&ExportServer/Sample.TXT” “#mi”; But cloud applications do not […]

Oracle’s commitment to rapidly expanding Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS) features can be seen in the latest updates to the SaaS offering. The enhancements outlined below represent a significant advancement in EDMCS’s ability to simplify dimension and hierarchy administration facing many organizations today.   Subscriptions Systematically applying dimension alignment across target systems is a […]