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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 EPM?

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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 Discipline that 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 the right 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 through EPM implementation from business perspective and how digital dashboards produce 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, and hold them accountable for results.• Goal Alignment.• Increased business agility.• Comprehensive regulatory compliance.• Improved consolidation process.• Streamlined reporting.• Collaborative management.

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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 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (Mar 2011) is to present a global view of the main vendors that offer broad EPM suites that should be considered byorganizations seeking to implement an EPM strategy. There has been a change in the scope of functionality included in the EPM suite market last year. 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 of Informa-tion delivery and access capabilities, which are designed to address the 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 Applications

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 and operational planning and improves business predictability.

Related Products:

Essbase – is an OLAP server and the engine behind Hyperion applications. It has the most highly advanced calculation engine with a comprehensive library of functions and extensive financial intelligence. It also provides Opti-mized storage and promises a premium performance.

Oracle FDQM – is a packaged application for Financial Data movement from any data source to any Hyperion application. Its data preparation server can ease integrating and validating financial data from any of your source sys-tems (EBS, PeopleSoft, etc.). It incorporates required regulatory compliance and financial best-practices including: Account Mapping & Audit ability, Drill-Through to Source-Systems and Files, Scheduling and Automation, Pre-Built Audit Reports

Essbase Analytic Link – EAL for Hyperion Financial Management enables the delivery of effective management and financial analytic reporting to a broad user community. It integrates and merges multiple operational data sources into a single data model, providing detailed information for analytical measurements (KPIs) and the application of advanced analytics. Merging financial and operational information in a single platform makes it easy to 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 performance by discov-ering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment. Identify sources and attributes of profitability with multidimensional analysis and improve decisions with sce-nario modeling capabilities

real time what-if scenario modeling for making business decisions.

• 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 and BI data.

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.

FDM’s 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. Meta data 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.

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7 How easy is it to integrate the Oracle EPM with Microsoft O�ce?

Smart View provides a Microsoft Office integration designed specifically for Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelli-gence (BI). It is a component of Hyperion Foundation Services. Using Smart View, you can view, import, manipulate, distribute and share data in Micro-soft Excel, Word and PowerPoint interfaces. The key capabilities of Smart View are,

EPM Workspace

Financial Reports

Smart View

Financial Close

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 applications—empowering 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.

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