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Oracle’s Hyperion EPM Strategy Andreea Vasiliu, PhD
Director, Product Strategy, EMEA
DOAG, May 9th, 11:15-12:00
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reserved. EPM INNOVATION
1981 • First DOS-based financial
consolidation & reporting
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
1989-90 • Philip Morris bought the
equivalent of Planning and
are still a client today
2005 • First Integrated EPM SYSTEM
with common interface, common
install, common components and
shared services
2010 • Integrated Financial Close
Management and Disclosure
Management
1986 • Financial consolidation
& reporting patented
methodology (TOP)
1998 • Started EPM market
leadership trend (IDC)
2005 • Information Age named
Essbase one of the top 10
innovations of the decade
next to Google and Blackberry
2012 • Continuous innovation across
the portfolio, expansion into
industry solutions, mobile
• Unprecedented Business
Analytics with Exalytics
Oracle: Leader in Enterprise Performance Management In Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as Leader since 2005, Leader in IDC’s analysis since 1997
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Oracle Is #1 in Corporate Performance Management
Suites (CPM) Revenue Share for 2011
• Oracle is #1 in the worldwide CPM (Corporate Performance Management) Suites market segment
with a 29.4 percent share based on total software revenue, according to Gartner's recent "Market
Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2011" report (*).
• Oracle continued its leadership position in the CPM market category with a growth rate of 23.2
percent in 2011, well above the industry average of 16.4 percent.
• Oracle Hyperion Performance Management Applications are a modular suite of integrated
applications that span planning, budgeting and forecasting, strategy management, financial close
and reporting, and profitability management.
• Oracle Hyperion applications are part of Oracle Business Analytics, the industry's most complete,
integrated family of business analytics solutions, including more than 80 business intelligence and
performance management applications, business intelligence foundational technology, advanced
analytics and Oracle Engineered Systems.
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Performance Management, BI and Analytics #1 Business Priority
Source: Gartner, Inc. “CFOs Cite BI and CPM as Top Priorities: 2011
Gartner FEI Technology Study” by John E. Van Decker, 20 May 2011.
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EPM is a Top Priority for Finance Executives 2011 Top Finance Initiatives
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Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management System Complete. Open. Integrated.
OLTP & ODS Systems
Data Warehouses Data Marts
Packaged Applications
(Oracle, SAP, Others)
Excel XML/Office
Business Processes
OLAP Sources
Exadata Unstructured & Semi-
Structured
ERP Analytics
Planning & Forecasting
Financial Close & Reporting
Strategy Management
Profitability Management
CRM Analytics
Industry Analytics
Data Management
Common Enterprise Information Model
Advanced Analytics Dimension Management Predictive Analytics
Reports & Publishing Query & Analysis Detect & Alert Office Search Embedded Mobile Scorecards Interactive Dashboards
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Oracle Hyperion EPM Release Strategy:
Extend Oracle’s Market Leadership
•
Deliver EPM Value Faster,
Reduce Cost of Ownership
Report Faster with
Improved Visibility,
Reduced Risk
• Plan at the speed of business with Exalytics In-Memory Machine
• Drive best practices and improve planning accuracy with built-in predictive analytics
• Manage the financial performance of key projects with Project Financial Planning
• Leverage fine-grained cost and profitability analytics for improved performance
insights
Plan at the Speed of
Business, Improve Analytic
Insights
• Streamline the close and reduce reporting risk with Account Reconciliation Manager
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements with pre-built starter kits
• Leverage unlimited dimensionality in financial consolidation to drive new internal and
external reporting initiatives
• Deliver enterprise-wide visibility into performance with mobile delivery
• Accelerate EPM deployments with packaged modules and support for best practices
• Improve user productivity and collaboration with revamped Web 2.0 user interfaces
• Leverage pre-built ERP integrations for faster time to value
• Accelerate finance transformation initiatives with integrated enterprise dimension
management
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Oracle Hyperion EPM Release History Release Summary
• Hyperion EPM R9.3 (2007)
• Hyperion EPM R11.1.1.x (July 2008 – Aug 2009)
• Hyperion EPM R11.1.2.x (April 2010 – April 2011)
• Hyperion EPM R11.1.1.4 (Aug 2011)
• Hyperion EPM R11.1.2.2 (April 2012)
Extend Planning
Across the
Enterprise
• New Project Financial Planning module
• Major Release of Hyperion Planning
• Compatible with Exalytics
• Extended predictive planning capabilities
• Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management application micro-costing
Streamline
Financial Close
and Reporting
• New Account Reconciliation Application
• New Financial Management Analytics
• Configurable dimensionality
• HFM starter kits to address statutory compliance needs
Deliver EPM
Value Faster,
Reduce TCO
• Enhanced User Experience (Web 2.0)
• Enhanced Hyperion Data Relationship Management module – chart of
accounts management
• Enhanced Oracle Hyperion EPM integration with Oracle Fusion
Middleware
• Enhanced Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft
Financials and HCM
• 4th major release since acquisition
• 3 New Products
• 1200+ New Features and Customer-
Driven Enhancements
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11.1.2 PS2 Sales Enablement
Project Financial Planning Process
Model strategic
initiatives
Propose & Plan
Projects Rank & Fund Approve
Monitor and Report
Update & Forecast
• Forecast initiatives based on
long-term financial models
• Set and approve Initiatives
• Quantify risk and uncertainty
• Propose and Plan projects
• Forecast future results
• Approve plans for selected projects
Assess and Manage Risk
• Rank and decide funding on selected initiatives
• Financial & subjective measures for scoring projects
• Monitor and report results against approved financial plans
• View the impact on financial statements from a Project or Entity Level
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Oracle Hyperion Project Financial Planning New Planning Module for Project Financial Management
Functional Summary • Pre-defined dimension members,
forms, business rules, menus, task
lists, smart lists, validation rules &
project planning plan types
• Integrated Human & Capital
Resource Management
• Covers Contract, Capital, Indirect
projects
Applicable Across Industries • Aerospace & Defense, Utilities, Oil
& Gas, Construction, Natural
Resources, Manufacturing, Retail
• IT/HR projects in any industry
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Hyperion Project Financial Planning
• Address the process disconnect between
project management decisions and financial
decisions
• Ensures that the what-if impact analysis and
feedback loop from financial considerations
for projects is instantaneous
• Calculate Project Financial Impacts
• Capital, Contract and Indirect Projects
• Risk and Governance management for
Projects
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Project Financial Planning Seeded Components
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• Task lists and tasks
• Dimension members
• Data forms
• Menus
• Business rules
• Smart lists
• Validation rules
• Essbase substitution variables
• User variables
• Predefined reports
• Out of box Financial Reports
• Out of Box Template files to import/export data
• Note: Out of Box integration to Oracle ERP Project systems is high priority in
v2 Roadmap
• Sample Projects for IT
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Plan at the Speed of Business,
Improve Analytic Insights
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Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine Key Enabling Technology for EPM Innovation
Planning @Speed of Business
• Reduce planning cycle times with huge gains in response time
• Run more complex planning models with finer grained detail
• Bring more users into the planning process and improve accuracy
LOB Planning with Essbase
• Extend beyond Finance into every LOB
• Scale to more users and run more complex planning models
• Improve agility – move from monthly to intra-day analysis
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Planning with Exalytics
• Planning process maturity
– Move beyond Annual Budgeting
– Adoption of rolling forecasts and driver based
planning for improved agility and forecast accuracy
• Planning maturity drives
– More users participating in planning process
– More complex calculations
– More interactive scenarios
Need for significantly higher throughput
Sweet spot for Exalytics
No o
f users
Model Complexity
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Essbase Use Cases for LOB Planning
Retail:
Store Level Forecasting
Telco:
Churn & Product Affinity
Utilities:
Smart Meter
Manufacturing
Material Cost Modeling
CPG:
Economic Value Analysis
Pharmaceutical:
Clinical Trials Financial Forecasting
Sales
Customer Analysis
Supply Chain
Inventory Optimization
Finance
Receivables Trending
Financial Services:
Instrument Level Planning
Human Capital
Employee Productivity
Marketing
Loyalty Analysis
Public Sector:
Concurrency
Internal Testing:
Analysis on ASO Cubes
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Functional Summary • Statistical prediction scenarios built into
Hyperion Planning
• Uses Oracle Crystal Ball Predictor to
analyze historical data and project trends
and patterns into the future
Benefits • Enable business users to leverage
statistical forecasting techniques
• Improve accuracy of forecasts and plans
• Automatically forecast best and worst
case scenarios in addition to base case
Integrated Predictive Planning Capabilities Leverage Statistical Forecasting for Improved Accuracy
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Oracle Hyperion Project Financial Planning Quantify Risk and Uncertainty
• Only 3 possible outcomes
• Limited view of risk
• What are most important risk factors?
• What are the odds I’ll miss the target?
• Which outcome is most likely?
• Full range of outcomes
• Illustrate probability of outcomes
• Immediate visibility into inherent risk
• True risk analysis for financial models
Conventional
Single Point Scenarios
Advanced
Thinking in Ranges
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Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance and Smart View Align Strategic and Financial Planning
Functional Summary
• Hyperion Smart View for Office user
interface for Hyperion Strategic
Finance (HSF)
• Fully integrated, with all HSF features
and standard reports available from
Smart View
• Smart View functions & tool kits for
custom reports
Benefits
• Integrate and align strategic and
financial planning
• Consistent user experience across
entire planning process
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Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting New Functionality Enhances Budget Management
Decision Packages
• Budget Requests
• Decision package approvals
workflow
• Notes and attachments in
decision packages and budget
requests
PeopleSoft Commitment Control
Integration
• 2-Way Sync with budgets in source
system
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Oracle Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management
Functional Summary
• Extend HPCM to address need for
detailed profitability
• Leverage RDBMS while retaining
modeling paradigm of current HPCM
Benefits
• Granular analysis of costs and profits:
Millions of customers, SKUs, subscribers,
products, transactions
• Drive towards operational analytics
• Scale up with RDBMS
• Manage cost development and cost
application in a single system
Detailed Profitability Feature Enables Micro-Costing
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Report Faster with Improved Visibility,
Reduce Risk
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Account Reconciliation Manager Streamline Reconciliations and Reduce Audit Risk
• Reconciliations are a major
bottleneck in the close process
– Ensuring completion and enabling
audits are key requirements
• New Account Reconciliation Manager
– Designed to manage global reconciliation processes: Balance Sheet, Consolidation, Local GAAP
– Streamlined, workflow-driven and auditable processes
– Delivered as part of Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management
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Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Support New Internal and External Reporting Initiatives
Configurable Dimensionality
• Support for enhanced statutory and
management reporting needs
– IFRS, Solvency II, Basel II, Dodd-Frank,….
– Internal management reporting
• Improved dimensional conformity with Oracle
Hyperion Planning
New Web Form/Grid Authoring
Product Enhancements
• POV management
• Journal Enhancements
• Process Control/Ownership Mgmt
• Administration improvements
• Load/Extract Behavior Change
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Statutory Compliance Enable Full Compliance with Ever-Changing Requirements
Hyperion Financial Management
based Starter Kits to address
Statutory Reporting needs
• New: Sustainability Reporting
Starter Kit using the GRI G3.1
Guidelines
• New: Solvency II QMR Reporting
for Insurance Industry
• IFRS
• Geography-specific: e.g. Japan
Statutory Reporting
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Oracle Financial Management Analytics Deliver Executive Visibility On-the-Go
• New offering that leverages OBIEE
for pre-built dashboards and
analytics
– Direct, native access to data in
Hyperion Financial Management and
Financial Close Management
– Packaged analytics are configurable
and extensible
• Enables mobile delivery of EPM data to finance executives and business users
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Deliver EPM Value Faster,
Reduce Cost of Ownership
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Rich User Experience
Consistent, Web 2.0 User Experience Across Applications
• Grid Diagnostics
• Interactive Drillable Task Lists
• Approvals Honored on Rules
Execution
• Groups As Owners
• Configurable Promotion Path
• Multiple Cell Comments
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Files, Excel, XML
Other Systems
Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, SAP R/3
and Fusion Apps
Data Warehouse Data Mart
FDM/ERPI
EPM WorkSpace
Financial Reports
Smart View
Data & Meta data Data
Drill-through & Write-back
Financial Close
Planning & Budgeting
Strategy Management
Profitability Mgmt.
Seamless Data and Metadata Integration Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management
Example:
•Delivers direct out-of-the-box integration to
PeopleSoft Commitment Control budgets and
budget activity
•Summary level budgeting and budget periods
transformation requirements handled through
ERPI and Hyperion Planning and Budgeting
• Integration designed to support 2-way
synchronization of budgets
•Validations – Combinations and budget rules
Future: Oracle E-Business Suite HR
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Essbase/BI Cross Deployment
• For existing Essbase users
– Create a cube based on RPD from within Essbase Studio
– Using the Presentation Layer or Business Model as the modeling source
• For BI Apps
– Create an Essbase cube based on the BIA semantics
– Maintain metadata integrity between the BIA model and the cube
• For OBIEE
– Create an Essbase cube based from within the BI Server
– Plug the new cube back into the RPD
– Create and execute MAXL and Calc Scripts using action framework
Simplify Cube Creation
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Oracle Exalytics
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• Super fast R-OLAP and M-OLAP
• Super fast Financial & Operational Planning
• Optimized Hardware • Memory: 1 Terabyte DRAM • Processors: 40 Intel Cores
• Software Breakthroughs • Adaptive In-Memory Caching • In-Memory Columnar Compression • Optimized Storage Block Access • Free Form Data Exploration • High Density Visualizations • Optimized for Exadata
• Best Cost/Performance
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Oracle Exalytics – Under the Hood
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In-Memory Analytics Software
Essbase
TimesTen for Exalytics
Adaptive In-Memory Tools
1 TB RAM
40 Processing Cores
High Speed Networking
In-Memory Analytics Hardware Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
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Oracle Exalytics Impressive Results from Early Customer Benchmarks
• Largest mortgage provider in Denmark, major private bond issuer in Europe
• Need to deliver outstanding performance for summary and transaction grain analysis
• 35x to 70x faster with Exadata + Exalytics
• Supplies automotive industry with market intelligence “PolkInsight”
• Need highly interactive dashboards and visualizations for global analyst community
• > 10x faster on average and up to 100x faster in specific cases
• Large oilfield services company with about ~860 rigs deployed around the world
• Need to drive usage of packaged BI Applications across the organization
• 5x shorter time to develop; 50x faster than a custom report (without tuning)
• Large cloud infrastructure services company
• Need highly interactive visualizations for large numbers of individual analyst data sets
• Consistent Sub-second interactivity on par with desktop tools down from ~30 secs
• Global consumer pre-packaged foods company
• Need more frequent planning and budgeting cycles for 2000+ users
• 6x faster cycle time - 4 hours down from more than 24 hours
A Global
CPG Company
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What Customers and Partners are
Saying About the New Release
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“We are extremely excited about the potential of Oracle Hyperion Planning
applications running on the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. Our
planning and forecasting customers can now leverage more detailed data,
greater scalability with a larger number of users to deliver reduced plan
cycle time and greater accuracy across their organization”
Ramke Ramakrishnan - EPM and BI Senior Practice Director of
MarketSphere Consulting
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“Organizations that lack visibility into cost and profitability will find the
expanded features of Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management attractive.
These features allow revenues and costs to be allocated at a very granular
level. Executives gain improved insight into how customer-driven
interactions across any channel impact profitability and allow for improved
decision-making about company offerings.”
Robin Ranzal – President, Edgewater Ranzal Consulting
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““The new Account Reconciliation Manager brings the old manual account
reconciling process into the 21st century with functionality and speed,” said
Andy Levins, Solutions Architect TopDown Consulting. “The mapping
process, detailed reconciliation, and strong security help reconcile a huge
quantity of accounts in a expedient manner with a very strong audit trail.
Both clients and auditors will love this tool”.
Andy Levins – Solutions Architect, TopDown Consulting
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Oracle Fusion Applications 11g
Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.2
• Hyperion Planning
• Project Planning module
• Predictive Planning
• PSB Commitment Control
• HSF – Smart View
• Planning on BI machine
• Hyperion Financial Management
• Configurable Dimensionality
• Financial Management Analytics
• Financial Close
• Account Reconciliations
• EBS/Fusion Integration
• Disclosure Management
• Edgar ready format, SEC validation
• Collaborative document authoring
• Profitability & Cost Mgmt.
• Micro-costing
Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.1
• iXBRL HMRC Income Tax
Returns
• PSFT & Financial Close Mgt.
integration
Hyperion EPM 11.1.2
• New Financial Close Mgt. Product
• New Disclosure Mgt. product
• New Public Sector Budgeting module
• Hyperion Planning
• Configurable & data driven workflows
• Conditional formatting
• Smart View extensions
• Oracle tech stack optimization
ORACLE EPM ROADMAP
Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.x
• Planning Healthcare
Starter Kit and Tighter
ERP Integration
covering Security,
Workflows, User
flows through Web
Center
• Financial Close Tax
Features
• Financial Master Data
Management: BI and
MDM integration
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Oracle Fusion Applications 11g
Oracle BI 11.1.1.5
• Oracle BI Mobile 11g for iPhone/iPad
• Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
• SSAS, SAP BW, Oracle OLAP, TimesTen, RPAS, …
• Upgrade for OBI Apps customers
• Support for Fusion Applications
Oracle BI 11.1.1.3
• Major release
• OLAP + ROLAP unification
• Complete UI refresh
• Tremendous innovation: collaboration, search, action
frameworks, EM integration
• 64 bit support, 28 languages, much more
Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6.3
• Upgraded and certified for OBIEE 11g
Essbase 11.1.2.2
• Essbase Web Service
• Excel Add-In parity
• End User custom objects, Saved selections
• Calc Script enhancements
Oracle BI 11.1.1.6
• Speed of thought visualizations
• In-memory analytics
• Oracle BI Mobile additional capabilities
• Enterprise Developer productivity
Oracle Real-Time Decisions 11g
• Support for Fusion Applications
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.2
• Platform certifications
• Maintenance release
Essbase in Oracle BI 11.1.1.6
• Performance
• Studio-EIS Parity
• Enterprise Availability and Reliability
Oracle Essbase 11.1.2.1
• BI Foundation installation
• Active-Passive high availability clustering
• Enterprise Manager for Essbase
Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6.2
• New Price Analytics
• New Loyalty Analytics
• Projects Commitment Control
• HR Benefits, Absence
Oracle BI Apps 7.9.7
• SAP Financials
• ETL through ODI
Oracle Essbase 11.1.2
• ASO MDX Formula Editor
• Calc script and API extensions
• Allocations & Custom Calculations in ASO
• Studio enhancements
• Fusion Middleware Integration
• OCI Support
Oracle Real-Time Decisions Base App 3.1
• Decision Manager
Oracle BI Apps 7.9.x
• SAP Procurement & Spend
• SAP Supply Chain & Order Mgmt
• Localization, translation
• ETL through ODI
Oracle BI Apps 11g Feature Set 1
• Combined support for Fusion Apps + Apps Unlimited + SAP +
GBUs
• ODI or Informatica – customer choice
• HCM – Time & Labor, Payroll, Global Payroll
• Financials – Commitment Control & Public Sector
Financial/Budget Analysis
• Financials – Fixed Assets
• Mfg – Discrete Mfg Job Based/Lot Based
Oracle BI Apps 11g
• Support for Fusion Apps
• Oracle Transactional BI
ORACLE BI ROADMAP
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BI Dashboards
EPM BI Apps
From Application to Data Warehouse Innovation, Value, Choice
Java Apps
3rd Party CRM
Logs
SOA
Batch Jobs
ERP
DR Servers
IDM
E20
SAP ERP App
SAP BW App
E20 Content
3rd Party
Oracle or SAP
ERP Data
CRM Data
Data Warehouse
Data Mart
HR Records
InfiniBand
Exalogic Exadata Exalytics
InfiniBand
Best for Oracle BI
Best for OLTP & DW
Best for Oracle & Java Apps
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OLTP & ODS Systems
Data Warehouse Data Mart
Packaged Applications
(Oracle, SAP, Others)
Excel XML/Office
Business Process
OLAP Sources Unstructured & Semi-
Structured
Ethern
et
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Forums: Impacting the Product Strategy and
Direction
Strategy Council
Visionary executives that want to partner with Development in driving the
strategy for the EPM/BI product categories
Customer Advisory Board
Application and project leaders that want to participate in driving product
roadmaps and provide feedback on planned features
Early Adopter Program
Application and project leaders and users that want to test and provide
early feedback on a features that is part of an new release
Customer Advocacy Group
Dedicated engineering group focused on customer advocacy, rapid
problem resolution, and closed loop feedback
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In Summary….
Enterprise Performance Management
• Top priority for Finance and IT
• Key strategic priority for Oracle
R11.1.2.2 Extends Oracle’s EPM Lead….
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