Oracle Hyperion Planning Training Concepts

Hyperion Planning Fundamentals

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Objectives

After completing the presentation, you should be able to understand how to:

n Create Planning applications using EPMA

n Create dimensions

n Load Meta data from Files

n Set up Exchange Rates

n Set up security for users, groups, and member access

n Create data forms, enter data and manipulate/adjust data

n Set up and test business rules

n Review budget data by using Process Management

n Migration of applications using LCM

n Working with Planning Classic Administration

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Readers Expectation out of this presentation

Your expectations out of this 5-day Hyperion Planning course, are

- Overall functionality of Hyperion Planning

- Advanced understanding of Hyperion Planning so that it can help during implementation.

- Learn System admin activities for Hyperion Planning

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Lesson 1 - Planning Overview

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

n Describe Oracles Enterprise Performance Management system

n Describe the main features of Planning

n Describe the product architecture of Planning

n Describe the relationship between Planning and Essbase

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Oracles Enterprise Performance Management System

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EPM and BI Application Components This Layer includes integrated suite of market leading Performance Management tools, based on Hyperion product suite. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Performance Management Scorecard, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost management, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting, Fusion Edition Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality manager, with SAP Adapter Oracle Integrated Operation Planning, Fusion Edition Oracle Integrated Margin Planning, Fusion Edition, for Hyperion v11.1.2 Oracle Crystal Ball, Fusion Edition

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Workspace

Data Management Data Relationship Management

Data Integration Management

Financial Data Quality Management

Performance Scorecard

Financial Management

Strategic Finance

Financial Performance Management Applications

Planning

Shared Services

Foundation Services

Smart View

Interactive Reporting

SQR Production Reporting

Financial Reporting

Web Analysis

Reporting and Analysis

Essbase Essbase

Administration Services

Provider Services

Integration Services

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Hyperion Planning Planning has the following features:

n Multidimensional data structure

n Target setting and bottom-up planning

n Iterative planning cycles

n Complex business rules and allocations

n Web-based data entry; management of the planning cycle through Web or Excel interface.

n Currency conversion for multicurrency applications

n Headcount and salary expense modeling

n Metadata and data synchronization between Planning applications and other Hyperion products

n Enhance decision making capability

n Integrate with reporting system for report and analysis

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Product Components n Planning

n Essbase

n Administration Services

n Performance Management Architect

n Workspace

n Calculation Manager

n Smart View

n Financial Reporting

n Shared Services

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Related Product Components

n Workforce Planning

n Capital Expense Planning

n Public Sector Planning and Budgeting

n Profitability and Cost Management

n Performance Scorecard

n Strategic Finance

n Financial Management

n Financial Data Quality Management

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Hyperion Planning Architecture Client

Application

Database

Workspace

Planning RDBMS Essbase

Administrator Client

Financial Reporting Server

Shared Services, Java Application Server for Planning, EPM Architect, Administration Services

EPM Architect RDBMS

Smart View Client

EPM Architect Dimension Server

Web Server

Reporting Studio Client

ODI / ERPi Legacy, ERP systems

External Services

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Planning and Essbase

Workspace Interface

Java Application Server

Planning Repository

Essbase Server

EPM Architect Repository

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Which data get stored where? Essbase Stores Security

Planning Data and Metadata

Calculation Scripts

Planning Relational Database stores Application Framework Metadata (Dimension, member, property) Exchange Rates Security and Member Access Process Management/ Planning Units Annotations/ Cell Text/ Supporting Details Work flow / Task Lists Preferences Application Setup Data Forms User Variables Smart Lists Business Rules

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Dimensions

Structural elements of an application that describe and hold data.

Account Entity Period

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Dimension Hierarchies

Descendants of GrossMargin

Parent Child of GrossMargin; parent of Sales and OtherRevenues

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Metadata

January actual sales for cola in Manhattan are 3689.00.

Data

Metadata

Sales Actual

Cola

January Manhattan

3689.00

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Dimensions and Data Data aggregates to parents based on aggregation options.

+ Add

- Subtract * Multiply

/ Divide

~ Ignore

Data is input into base-level members.

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Multidimensional View of Information

West SF

LA Denver

Sales

Margin

Camera TV

Audio VCR

February

March Actual Actual Budget Budget

Camera TV

Audio VCR

Cogs Margin

Total Exp. Profit

TV

VCR

Jan Feb

Qtr 1 Mar

East West Actual Actual Budget Budget

Jan Feb

Qtr 1 Mar

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Drill-Down Process

Week

Month

Quarter

Year

Period

New York

East

N America

Worldwide

Entity

Expenses

COGS

Sales

Profit

Account

Dept 10

Sears

Retail

All Customers

Customer

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Essbase Terminology Hierarchies

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EssbaseTerminology Families

Year Qtr1 Qtr2 April Year

Qtr1 Qtr2 April

Dimension

Ancestors of April

Descendants of Year

Parent of April

Child of Qtr2

Siblings

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Essbase Terminology Generations and Levels

Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3 Gen 4

Gen 3

Level 0

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Level 0

Leaf Node

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to:

n Describe Oracles Enterprise Performance Management system

n Describe the main features Planning

n Describe the product architecture of Planning

n Describe the relationship between Planning and Essbase

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Lesson 2 Navigating Workspace

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

n Describe the user interface components

n Access Planning through Workspace

n Navigate Planning

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Workspace Workspace

Manage Enterprise Financial Information

BI+ Planning

Hyperion Applications Planning Output

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Workspace Overview Manage applications

View reports

Work with Planning

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Launching Workspace

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Workspace User Interface

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Setting User Preferences

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Opening Applications

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Navigating in Planning Planning toolbar Planning Menus

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Basic and Advanced Modes Basic mode limits users to the tasks and documents in the Task Lists to which they have access.

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View Pane and Content Area

Business Rules

Data Forms

View buttons

View Pane

Content Area

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Opening Data Forms

Data Forms

Select Folder

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to:

n Describe the user interface components

n Access Planning through Workspace

n Navigate Planning

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Lesson 3 Dimension Overview

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Objectives

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

n Describe plan types

n Identify required dimensions

n Identify user-defined dimensions

n Describe dense and sparse dimensions

n Describe data block creation

n Set up aggregation, data storage, and calculation options

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Summary In this lesson, you should have learned to:

n Describe plan types

n Identify required dimensions

n Identify user-defined dimensions

n Describe dense and sparse dimensions

n Describe data block creation

n Describe aggregation, data storage, and calculation options

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Lesson 4 Setting up System Dimensions

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Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

n Describe Planning time periods

n Customize time periods

n Create Scenarios

n Create Versions

n Create Entity

n Create Accounts

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Time Periods Overview The Year and Period dimensions represent time.

You can:

n Add years

n Create new summary time periods or change the name of summary time periods

n Add or change the aliases

n Add up to 100 calendar years and 500 time periods to an application

You cannot:

n Modify the Start Year after the application is deployed

n Reduce the number of years without creating a database

n Change the base time periods

n Delete a dimension after creation of the application

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Customizing Time Periods

You can customize summary time periods in these ways:

n Change the name

n Change the range

n Create new summary time periods

n Add or change the alias

n Add years and time periods

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Period and Year Dimensions

Year

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Dynamic Time Series Members

Predefined DTS Member Description

H-T-D History-to-date

Y-T-D Year-to-date

S-T-D Season-to-date

P-T-D Period-to-date

Q-T-D Quarter-to-date

M-T-D Month-to-date

W-T-D Week-to-date

D-T-D Day-to-date

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Setting Up Dynamic Time Series Members

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Choosing How Data Is Stored The storage type for a member has a major impact on the size and calculation performance of your database.

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Scenario Dimension

The Scenario dimension specifies a data classification.

Actual Budget Forecast

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Scenario dimension

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Version Dimension n Versions provide process flexibility by providing iterative planning cycles.

n Versions are independent of individual scenarios. For example, Preliminary and Final versions could be associated with any scenario.

n There are 2 version types:

Standard Bottom-Up Standard Target

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Creating Versions

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Entities Overview

n Entities allow you to model the flow of budget information through your organization.

n You can create an entity for each group or responsibility center that submits a plan for approval.

n You can assign plan types to entities.

n Entities can have a currency property. If no currency is defined, the application default currency is used. The entitys currency can be overwritten during data entry or data loads.

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Entity Members and Plan Types n When you define an entity member

you assign plan types.

n If you do not assign a plan type to a parent, its children do not have access to that plan type.

Revenue BalSheet IncStmt !"

Plan Types Data Form

Eastern US

NY

FL

Assigned

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Identifying the Currency Value for Entities The default currency is the currency that you specify when you create the application view.

New York London Tokyo

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Adding and Modifying Entities

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Saving Dimensions Save changes to the relational database.

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Deleting Entities

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Accounts Overview

n You assign plan types to accounts. If more than one plan type is assigned to an account, designate a source plan

type.

Other plan types pull their values from the source plan type.

n Use aggregation options to define calculations in the account hierarchy.

Revenue BalSheet IncStmt !"

Plan Types Data Form

Profit

Total Revenues

Total Expenses

Salaries

Rent

Assigned

Detail Expense Accounts

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Account Types Account Type Variance Time Balance Skip Exchange Rate Type Currency Type

Expense Expense Flow N/A Average Currency

Revenue NonExpense Flow N/A Average Currency

Asset NonExpense

Balance None Ending Currency

Liability NonExpense


Equity NonExpense


Saved Assumption

NonExpense

User-defined N/A None NonCurrency

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Time Balance Options

Flow and Balance examples

Revenue

Asset

50 75 50 175

100 150 75 75

Jan Feb Mar Total Revenues

Cash on Hand

Quarter 1

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Saved Assumptions Use Saved Assumptions to:

n Centralize planning assumptions

n Identify key business drivers

n Ensure consistency across the application

Examples of Saved Assumption accounts include:

n Headcount

n Square footage

Define business rules that reference these saved assumptions such as:

n Calculate office supplies by entity based on headcount

n Calculate facilities expense based on square footage per location

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Data Types and Exchange Rate Types

Currency NonCurrency Percentage Data types

Average Ending Historical Exchange rate types

Date Smart List Text

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Creating Account Hierarchies

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Consolidation Order Account (Never Share)

Profit (+)

Margin (+)

Sales (+)

COGS (-)

Expenses (-)

Marketing (+)

Misc. (+)

Ratios (~) (Label Only)

Margin % (+) (Two Pass Calc) Margin % Sales;

Product Share (+) (Two Pass Calc) Sales % Sales -> Products;

10

7 3

1

2 6

4

5

8

9

Level 2 Level 1

Level 0

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Consolidation Order Example

n Consolidation order is defined by the order of members in the outline.

n Essbase calculates data in top-down order.

Parent

Member 4

Member 2

Member 1

Member 3

Member 7

Member 5

Member 6

(+)

(+)

(-)

(*)

(%)

(/)

(~)

10

20

25

40

50

60

70

30 5

200

400

6.67

25

40

50

60

6.67

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Summary In this lesson, you should have learned to:

n Describe Planning time periods

n Customize time periods

n Create Scenarios

n Create Versions

n Create Entities

n Create Accounts

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Lesson 5 Create User Defined Elements

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Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

n Create user-defined dimensions

n Create attributes and assign attribute values

n Describe member formulas

n Add member formulas

n Create Smart Lists

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User-Defined Dimensions n User-defined dimensions require:

Unique values across databases Plan types assigned at the dimension level

Customer

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Attributes Overview

Large Doug Nichols

Customer

National Accounts

Your IT Source

ABC Company

Software Company

Sales Rep

Small

Medium

Company Size

Sandy Smith

Assad Akili

Attribute dimensions Base dimension

Chris Jones

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Examples of Attribute Values The following are examples of attributes and their possible values. n Channel (Attribute of the Product dimension)

Retail Catalog sales

n Size (Attribute of the Product dimension) Small Medium Large

n Sales Rep (Attribute of the Customer dimension) John Brown Sandy Kennedy

n Region (Attribute of the Customer dimension) East South West North

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Assigning Attribute Values

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Member Formulas Overview

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Adding Member Formulas

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Adding User-Defined Attributes

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Smart Lists Overview n Customer_Service_Class uses a smart list

n Network Sales, Chip Sales, and Computer Sales use data values

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Creating Smart Lists

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Modifying Smart Lists Smart List Value Properties

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Loading Metadata In Hyperion Classic Planning loading metadata can be achieved by making use of the

following tools:

Oracle Data Integrator(ODI)

Data Integration Management(DIM)

Hyperion Application Link(HAL)

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Summary In this presentation, you should have learned to:

n Create user-defined dimensions

n Create attributes and assign attribute values

n Describe member formulas

n Add member formulas

n Create Smart Lists

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