Integration of Hyperion Application with Hyperion Hub

1. Integration of Hyperion Application with Hyperion Hub Jim Bolger – Solutions Consultant

2. Agenda • Hyperion Hub / Interoperability Overview • Use Cases • Hyperion Planning • Hyperion Financial Management • Essbase • Screenshots • Main Screen • Manage Models • Manage Projects • Questions

3. Objectives • Recap the Hyperion Hub benefits • Review Hyperion Planning and HFM interoperability capabilities • Summarize the primary use cases

4. Takeaways 1. Hub is here… • Compelling story for prospects, customers, and partners • Powerfully supports BPM story & strategy • More is coming. Stay tuned… 2. More than just metadata sharing • Metadata and Data • Hub and HAL can complement each other 3. Ease-of-use, and effectiveness in setting up applications

5. A Single Platform For Delivering Business Performance Management BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS Scorecarding and Dashboarding HYPERIONAPPLICATION Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Consolidation and Reporting Tailored Applications Modeling Performance Metrics Query and Reporting Enterprise Reporting Developer Tools Analytics HYPERIONPLATFORM Core and Data Integration Services LEGACY MDB DW ERP CRM

6. Hyperion Platform – Hyperion Hub - Overview • Hyperion Hub • Supports company processes • Provides required interoperability • Integral part of BPM

7. Hyperion Hub Benefits • Greater Efficiencies • Quickly move shared dimension structures • Effectively update applications with new or modified dimensions • Quickly move data between applications • Reduces mechanics of moving shared information between the applications • Reduces reliance on IT resources • Reduces maintenance and time on managing these multiple applications • Greater Consistency • Minimize data integrity issues • Administrators benefit by managing multiple versions of dimensions centrally

8. 1 1 1 Hierarchies Int. Definition Objects Store Version View Edit Transform Define Integrations Run/Schedule The Infrastructure to Deliver Next GenerationBusiness Performance Management • Functionalities to enable these tasks: • Metadata sharing • Data sharing • Storage and versioning of business objects • Approach • Hyperion Hub functionalities available from within applications • Links on application Web for seamless experience

9. Hyperion HubUse Cases

10. HP / HFM Interoperability:Alignment of Processes Sharing Metadata and Data between Hyperion Planning and HFM • Initial Sourcing of applications (metadata) • Ongoing metadata management among these applications • Primary metadata source is either a HP or HFM application, or other repository HP Plan / Forecast data updates are used to support reporting and analysis within HFM Plan & Forecast Data Planning HFM Hyperion Hub HFM Actual data & metadata updates are used to facilitate the plan / forecast process within HP Actual Data / Metadata

11. HP / HFM Interoperability… Customer Requirements • Improved data integrity • Sharing dimensions between applications • Centrally manage shared dimensions • Reduce maintenance issues • Single point of maintenance • Reduce dimension and data reconciliation • Ongoing metadata updates (new products, accounts, acquisitions) • Development of new applications • Enhanced analysis • Reduced cycle times (forecasts, etc.)

12. HP / HFM Interoperability… Hub Value-Add • Supports sharing, synching of metadata • Versioning / compliance • Effective data integrations (based on shared dimensions) • Ease of use

13. Multiple Hyperion Applications Interoperability among multiple Hyperion applications • Hyperion Essbase used as central data or metadata source • Hyperion Essbase used for reporting/analysis or other business model • Essbase used for: • reporting/analysis, or other business model • centralized dimension management • BPM positioning Essbase Hyperion Hub Planning HFM

14. Lifecycle / Application Management Interoperability between Single Product applications • Different environments: development, test & production • Initial Sourcing or ongoing changes (metadata & data) • Make change in one application, quickly update all applications • Metadata source is either an application or the Hyperion Hub Production • Lifecycle Management - High customer requirement • Positions well with the IT group during a sales cycle Hyperion Hub Development Test

15. HP Application <=> HP Application Interoperabily among multiple Hyperion Planning applications • Multiple applications: different business units or functional applications • Data & metadata updates across these applications • Large HP Application • Central management of accounts, or other dimensions • Versioning of dimensions • Reduce maintenance effort Corporate Application Hyperion Hub Bus Unit 1 Bus Unit 2 Metadata & Data Updates

16. Hyperion Hub Screenshots • Main Screen • Manage Models • Manage Projects

17. Main Screen

18. Manage Models

19. Manage Projects

20. Hyperion Hub – What are we working towards? • Metadata and Data Integration • Extend metadata sharing to all Hyperion products • Complete Lifecycle Management and Auditing • User Provisioning • Provide a mechanism to manage users, groups and roles across all the products • Alerts and workflows • Provide system wide Workflow service to automate standard management and maintenance tasks • System wide alerting service for users to be notified of changes in the data sources like Essbase, Financial Management, Planning or Relational systems • Unified Management and Monitoring of applications • Provide mechanism to monitor and manage all applications from a single dashboard

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