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1. What is meant by Enterprise Performance Management?

2. Why would an organization get interested in the EPM concept?

3. Components of EPM Suite and the key vendors in the market.

4. The Oracle EPM system architecture

5. Explain the products of Oracle EPM suite and its specialties?

6. How EPM Integrate closely with ERP Systems?

7. How easy is it to integrate the Oracle EPM with Microsoft Office?

8. Can you elaborate on the reporting side or tools as part of Oracle
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1 What is meant by Enterprise Performance Management?

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an emerging management

discipline mainly focusing on supporting management processes on strate-

gic, financial and operational level activities. It supports those management

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 Disciplinethat enables management to,

Link Strategies to plans and execution

Monitor Financial and operational results against goals

Applying analytics to drive Enterprise-wide performance improvement

2 Why would an organization get interested in the EPM concept?

To achieve management excellence, organizations need to standardize,

automate, and integrate their management processes and implement theright solution to optimize them. EPM applications support a broad range of

strategic and financial performance management processes to enable man-

agement excellence, delivers information quickly to support business goals,

provide visibility into the business and ensure agility and the ability of the

business to respond to changes. EPM Solution in an organization eliminates,

Inconsistency in business decisions.

Lack of business alignment and.

Low predictability in performance.

Let us examine some of the key benefits that can be achieved thro

implementation from business perspective and how digital dproduce a view into measuring and monitoring action and results

Believe in the numbers and report with confidence.

Set accurate expectations and anticipate results.

Deliver the right visibility to the right people at the right time, a

them accountable for results.

Goal Alignment.

Increased business agility.

Comprehensive regulatory compliance.

Improved consolidation process.

Streamlined reporting. Collaborative management.

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Competive

Advantage

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EXCELLENCE

MANAGEMEN

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3 Components of EPM Suite and the key vendors in the market.

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 Gartners 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 lastyear. Gartner has increasingly seen aspects of financial governance become

integrated and implemented in conjunction with core EPM, especially in sup-

port of the financial close and disclosure processes. The expanded applica-

tion components of an EPM suite are, therefore, as follows:

Information Delivery Layer: This Layer provides a complete set

tion delivery and access capabilities, which are designed to a

different needs of the users.

BP&F Budget Plan and Forecast

PM&O Profitability Management and Optimization.

Strategy Management.

Financial Consolidation and Close.

Financial and Management Reporting and Disclosure.

4 The Oracle EPM system architecture

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Financial Close &Reporting

Planning &Forecasting

ProfitabilityManagement

StrategyManagement

Common Enterprise Inforamation Model

Business Intelligence Foundation

Fusion Middleware

BI Applica


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5 Explain the products of Oracle EPM suite and its specialties?

EPM and BI Application Layer: This Layer includes an integrated suite of

market leading performance management applications that are based on the

Hyperion product suite. This Layer also consists of integrated BI applications

that can help analyze data from ERP and CRM Applications.

BI Foundation Layer: The EPM and BI applications are integrated on a BI

Foundation that includes the following,

Core Products:

Oracle Hyperion Planning is a web based budgeting and forecasting tool

which sits on top of Hyperion Essbase. This helps integrating financial andoperational planning and improves business predictability.

Related Products:

Essbase is an OLAP server and the engine behind Hyperion a

It has the most highly advanced calculation engine with a com

library of functions and extensive financial intelligence. It also pro

mized storage and promises a premium performance.

Oracle FDQM is a packaged application for Financial Data mov

any data source to any Hyperion application. Its data preparation

ease integrating and validating financial data from any of your

tems (EBS, PeopleSoft, etc.). It incorporates required regulatory

and financial best-practices including: Account Mapping & Audit a

Through to Source-Systems and Files, Scheduling and AutomBuilt Audit Reports

Essbase Analytic Link EAL for Hyperion Financial Managem

the delivery of effective management and financial analytic re

broad user community. It integrates and merges multiple opera

sources into a single data model, providing detailed information fo

measurements (KPIs) and the application of advanced analytic

financial and operational information in a single platform make

deliver a comprehensive management reporting environment.

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management is a financial consolidation tool. It

improves closing and reporting process and helps reduce internal risk con-

trols.

Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance helps perform quick what-if impact

analysis using alternate consolidative rollups of what-if models. It plays a

critical role in linking strategy and target setting, to bottom up plans, while

FP&A groups and business unit owners use it for long range forecasting and

Profitability and Cost management drives business performanc

ering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with v

flexibility, and improving resource alignment. Identify sources an

of profitability with multidimensional analysis and improve decisio

nario modeling capabilities

real time what-if scenario modeling for making business decision

Common enterprise information model

Powerful, forward looking analytics with Oracle Essbase Ability to integrate data from Oracle, non-Oracle databases and

transactional systems

Enterprise dimension management

Predictive analytics engine



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Data access from Relational or Multi-Dimensional sources.

Report Creation in Excel, Word and PowerPoint using EPM a

6 How EPM Integrate closely with ERP Systems?

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,

to SOA-enabled data services.

FDMs ERP Integrator (ERPI) module supports ERP adapter data integration

to Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and

SAP including the ability to drill-back into transaction system details. Metadata may also be loaded from Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft

Financials to EPM applications.

New products as of the latest release (v11.1.2.1)

Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management Allow organization to

define, execute, and report on the interdependent activities of a financial

close period.

Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management Allows organization to assemble

a reporting package for submission to a stake holder that includes financial

statements, as well as supporting schedules and commentary which exists in

Excel, Word, and a Financial Reporting document.


7 How easy is it to integrate the Oracle EPM with Microsoft Oce

Smart View provides a Microsoft Office integration designed spe

Oracles Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Busi

gence (BI). It is a component of Hyperion Foundation Services. U

View, you can view, import, manipulate, distribute and share dat

soft Excel, Word and PowerPoint interfaces. The key capabilitie

View are,

EPM

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FinancialClose

Planning &Forecasting

ProfitabilityManagement

StrategyPlanning

FDM


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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-

sive report development tool that generates highly-formatted reports that can

be accessed from either the web or automatically e-mailed in PDF format to

end-users. The key features in Financial Reporting are

OBIEE is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a

full range of analysis and reporting capabilities. Featuring a unified, highly

scalable, modern architecture, Oracle BIEE provides intelligence and analyt-

ics from data spanning enterprise sources and applicationsempowering

the largest communities with complete and relevant insight. Oracle BI EE

Plus also bundles key Oracle Hyperion reporting products for integrated

reporting with Oracle Hyperion financial applications.

Schedule reports for immediate printing and online delivery.

Send e-mail alerts when reports are ready to view.

Create and save the reports in a repository or as HTML or PDF files.

Schedule regular reports.

Our Business Intelligence & Analytics solutions help you transfo

into a dynamic enterprise through actionable intelligence. We h

more than 50 patent pending innovations which help you with fas

& efficient deployment & over 85 plus satisfied customers acr

diverse industries. From consulting, articulation and developmen

deployment and support, Hexaware can architect and implemdata warehouses and BI systems, employing solution accelerato

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