Business Performance Management

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management is a comprehensive, Web-based application that delivers global financial consolidation, reporting and analysis in a single, highly scalable software solution. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management utilizes today's most advanced technology, yet is built to be owned and maintained by the enterprise's finance team.

Features

• Accelerate reporting cycles—Reduce closing cycles by days, deliver more timely results to internal and external stakeholders
• Improve transparency and compliance—Helps reduce the cost of compliance (as stipulated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, electronic filing, and other regulatory requirements) and support disclosure requirements, such as sustainability reporting
• Perform strategic analysis—Spend less time on processing and more time on value-added analysis
• Deliver a single truth—Provide a single version of the truth to support financial management and statutory reporting
• Easily integrate—Integrate not only with Hyperion products but also with your existing infrastructure

Benefits

• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, part of the Oracle EPM Suite, supports the collection, consolidation and reporting of financial results in multiple GAAPs as well as IFRS, and the reconciliation of differences among the various standards.
• Hyperion Financial Management can be deployed quickly to integrate data from multiple Oracle and non-Oracle transactional systems, provide top-side reporting that conforms to IFRS requirements, and help organizations make the transition to IFRS.

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Hyperion Enterprise is a prepackaged application for midsize organizations that helps financial managers improve financial consolidation and reporting efficiency while enabling line managers to quickly identify key trends and variances in order to make better, faster decisions. Hyperion Enterprise can be distributed and installed at remote offices quickly and easily. It can be fully deployed by the finance organization with minimal IT support, even on a standalone PC.

Features

• Meets regulatory financial consolidation software requirements of global businesses on a country-by-country basis
• Delivers mission-critical management reporting and analysis
• Provides high ease of use and straightforward financial reporting software
• Offers a choice of centralized or distributed deployment options
• Supplies a rich set of prepackaged features and requires limited IT support

Benefits

• Unmatched ease of use
• Advanced change management support
• Global financial reporting support
• Flexible deployment options
• Easy integration with ERP and other data sources

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Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management is a packaged solution for finance users that helps develop standardized financial data management processes with its Web-based guided workflow user interface. Its data preparation server can ease integrating and validating financial data from any of your source systems. And to further reduce your data integration costs as well as data mapping complexities, Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management includes prepackaged adapters for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise, Oracle Essbase, and Oracle E-Business Suite.

Features

• Increase quality—Improve your financial data quality and confidence in the numbers
• Simplify data handling—Abridge the collection, mapping, verification, and movement of financial data
• Standardize—Rely on repeatable financial processes
• Reduce expenditures—Lower the cost of compliance
• Improve productivity—Eliminate manual file manipulation and bottlenecks
• Improve insight—Drill-through from EPM applications to transactional systems

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Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance software is a financial modeling application that lets executives identify and understand the full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies. Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance software delivers pre-packaged modeling and forecasting so your finance experts can better spend their time testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.

Features

• Create Business Value—Integrate long-term planning, treasury strategies and corporate development analysis
• Save time and money—Reduce model-building efforts using pre-built financial modeling logic
• Improve Strategic Decision-making—Perform more comprehensive financial analysis in less time, reduce simulation time from days to minutes
• Minimize risk and uncertainty—Improve accuracy of financial models with ensured accounting integrity
• Deploy Quickly—Implement quickly with minimal IT support

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Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading OLAP (online analytical processing) server. The newest release of Oracle's Hyperion Essbase product, Oracle Essbase provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. With a rapid application development environment that is managed by the business, Oracle Essbase enables the business to quickly model complex business scenarios. For example, Oracle Essbase makes it easy for line-of-business personnel to develop and manage analytic applications that model complex scenarios, forecast the business and perform "what-if" analyses in order to look into the future. Oracle Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, for large data sets, and for complex business models. It is hot-pluggable across any data source.

Features

• Richest business user experience—Delivers "speed-of-thought" query response time so users can quickly understand the metrics that influence business performance, ask questions, and make informed decisions. With its outstanding Microsoft Office integration, Oracle Essbase resonates with business and financial analysts alike. In addition, a suite of reporting tools satisfies the diverse needs of users across the enterprise. Whether inside a spreadsheet, through formatted reports, via a powerful ad hoc graphical interface, or a data visualization paradigm, business users can easily and intuitively understand what drives the business.
• Highly advanced calculation engine—At its core, Oracle Essbase is the most advanced, high performance calculation engine on the market. It ships with over 350 pre-built, out-of-the-box functions, accelerating the development of complex business models. A single point of maintenance makes it easy for an administrator to manage business rules. From straightforward aggregations to complex cross-dimensional allocations; from comprehensive time series intelligence to financial sophistication, the Oracle Essbase calculator delivers premium performance and breadth of functionality.
• Best custom analytic environment—Oracle Essbase enables line-of-business personnel to drive application design and rapid iterations. The highly graphical "outline" technology makes it easy to build dimensions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios. Oracle Essbase's unique multi-user read/write technology allows the creation of forward looking applications such as trending, forecasting and scenario analysis. It is the Oracle Essbase engine that powers the Hyperion Planning suite of applications. Performance is optimized via a range of data storage and compression methods best suited for the type of application being built. Oracle Essbase supports both 32 and 64 bit computing across both Windows and Unix operating environments—capable of massive scalability for enterprise wide deployments.

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Oracle Hyperion Planning is a centralized, Excel and Web-based planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes and improves business predictability. Oracle Hyperion Planning provides an in-depth look at business operations and its related impact on financials, by tightly integrating financial and operational planning models. With Oracle Hyperion Planning you can meet your immediate financial planning needs while enabling a platform for future cross-functional expansion and automated process integration.

Features

• Ensure accuracy—Validate forecasts with integrated, best-in-class analytics
• Reduce budgeting time—Improve cycles by weeks or months
• Align the organization—Combine financial and operational planning in one system
• Address finance needs quickly—Meet immediate finance needs while enabling operations-specific budgeting processes
• Maximize modeling capabilities—Support advanced, power user modeling capabilities with nearly seamless Microsoft Excel integration
• Gain mass user acceptance—Appeal to a wider user community through a simplified Web interface
• Reduce implementation time—Add quick-to-implement, packaged functional planning modules

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Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard is a balanced scorecard collaborative certified application that helps companies clearly articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across the enterprise, monitor key performance indicators, and improve business alignment. The software offers you complete strategy-and accountability-mapping capabilities, as well as Web-based message boards, forums and discussion threads.

Features

• Communicate effectively across the enterprise—Share operational performance management strategies throughout the business
• Clarify business objectives—Align the enterprise with corporate strategy, plans and objectives
• Focus resources—Improve operational efficiency through a continuous business performance management cycle
• Increase employee participation—Promote collaboration and accountability for results
• Create value—Build future economic value for key stakeholders

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Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning, software is a specialized planning module that automates the planning of capital assets and capital asset related expenses, such as depreciation, maintenance and insurance. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning includes pre-built functionality and best practices that easily plan for all your capital expenses. It is also directly linked to Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus, so you can immediately assess the impact of your capital expenses on your overall expenses and financial statements.

Features

• Deploy Quickly—Simplify implementation processes and reduce maintenance requirements
• Improve Confidence—Manage all capital expenses easily, ensure security over data, calculations, and global settings
• Optimize Resources—Assess the immediate impact of capital expense decisions on financial statements
• Enhance Accuracy—Achieve greater accuracy, predictability, and accountability by involving operational-level planners
• Gain Efficiency—Eliminate manual steps by using a comprehensive planning solution

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Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management software is a new performance management application that is part of Oracle's enterprise performance management (EPM) system and provides actionable insights into costs and profitability. This solution drives business performance by discovering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Unlike traditional activity-based costing applications, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management offers a flexible allocations platform for any method including ABC, time estimation, etc. The application also supports both cost and revenue management. Traceability maps and audit trail capabilities provide unique transparency and ease of use. Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management is the only packaged profitability application that leverages Oracle Essbase Plus, the industry's leading OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) server, for faster, easier, powerful multidimensional analysis. Unlike nonintegrated EPM suite vendors, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management shares a common foundation and is integrated with the other Hyperion performance management applications. This enables a single point of maintenance for reduced cost of administration and ownership versus. nonintegrated point solutions.

Features

• Discover drivers of costs and profitability—Identify sources and attributes of profitability with multidimensional analysis. Improve decisions with scenario modeling capabilities. Enable management best practices by leveraging profitability as a performance metric.
• Empower users with visibility and flexibility—Accurately allocate costs with a flexible allocation engine that supports any methodology. Gain confidence in cost allocations and revenue flows with graphical traceability maps. Quickly validate models with user-defined business rules.
• Improve resource alignment—Impact budgets and plans through integration with other performance management applications. Strategically allocate resources with accurate profitability and cost information. Improve marketing programs through customer segmentation.

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