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Services• Hyperion Financial Management
(HFM)• Financial Data Quality Management
(FDMEE)• Financial Close Manager (FCM)• Account Reconciliation Manager
(ARM)• Hyperion Tax Provisioning (HTP)• Disclosure Manager (DM)
According to Oracle:
What is EPM Architect?
“Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect is a feature of Oracle Hyperion Foundation Services and is integrated with Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Oracle Hyperion Planning, OracleEssbase, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, and Oracle Data Relationship Management. Performance Management Architect enables administrators to manage, create,and deploy Hyperion applications within one interface.”
EPM Architect is:� A part of the Hyperion Foundation Services
What is EPM Architect?
� A tool to help users maintain HFM, Essbase, Planning, and HPCM applications.
� Dimension Library
� Application Library
� Data Synchronization
� Library Job Console
� Classic to EPMA Conversion
EPMA Modules
Sharing Dimensions
� Order is important
Order Dimension # of Associations
1 Alias None
2 Security Class None
3 Currency 1
4 Custom1…Custom4 2
5 ICP 2
6 Scenario 3
7 Entity 3
8 Account 7
� Period, Year, Value, View, and Consolidation Method stay Local
� Validate� When deploying the first 10% is validation� The last 90% is the EPMA load to HFM
Deployment
� Let’s revisit our decision tree…
EPMA First
� If DRM is being used, keep all dimensions local
� If DRM is not being used, determine what dimensions are shared with other applications
� Dimensions in the Shared Library do not have to be Shared….they can be local
EPMA First
� Create the Shared Library first!
� Why? This will make life much easier…
� EPMA will ask to you to choose…
� …A blank application or to “Auto Create Local Dimensions”
Create Shared Library
� Once the profile is created it can be executed
� The Shared Library is created
Dimensions
� Either shared or local
Dimension Groupings
Entity, Currency, Security Class
Account, ICP, Custom1…Custom4
� Validate and review any errors
� Follow the proper order when sharing dimensions
Tips and Tricks
� Don’t split account and entity groupings
� Don’t change aliases, periods, years once deployed
� Keep all dimensions in the shared library
� Remove duplicates
� Understand migration options
� Add security to dimensions
� Keep all dimensions in the shared library
Shared Library
� When creating an application, the dimensions can be changed to local
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