Oracle Hyperion Planning
Oracle Hyperion Planning is a centralized, Excel and Web-based planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes and improves business predictability. Oracle Hyperion Planning provides an in-depth look at business operations and its related impact on financials, by tightly integrating financial and operational planning models. With Oracle Hyperion Planning you can meet your immediate financial planning needs while enabling a platform for future cross-functional expansion and automated process integration.
Oracle Hyperion Planning is also available as a subscription service in the Oracle Cloud.
Benefits
- Ensure accuracy—Validate forecasts with integrated, best-in-class analytics
- Reduce budgeting time—Improve cycles by weeks or months
- Align the organization—Combine financial and operational planning in one system
- Address finance needs quickly—Meet immediate finance needs while enabling operations-specific budgeting processes
- Maximize modeling capabilities—Support advanced, power user modeling capabilities with nearly seamless Microsoft Excel integration
- Gain mass user acceptance—Appeal to a wider user community through a simplified Web interface
- Reduce implementation time—Add quick-to-implement, packaged functional planning modules
- Deploy quickly—with no internal IT hardware or software requirements with cloud-based deployment model
Oracle Hyperion Essbase
Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. By leveraging its self-managed, rapid application development capabilities, business users can quickly model complex business scenarios. For example, line-of-business personnel can simply and rapidly develop and manage analytic applications that can forecast likely business performance levels and deliver “what-if” analyses for varying conditions. Oracle Essbase supports extremely fast query response times for vast numbers of users, large data sets, and complex business models.
Benefits
Richest business user experience
Delivers “speed-of-thought” query response time that helps users quickly understand the metrics that influence business performance, ask questions, and make informed decisions. With its outstanding Microsoft Office integration, Oracle Essbase resonates with both business and financial analysts. In addition, its suite of reporting tools satisfies the diverse needs of users across the enterprise. Whether inside a spreadsheet, through formatted reports, via a powerful ad hoc graphical interface, or a data visualization paradigm, business users can easily and intuitively understand vital business drivers.
Highly advanced calculation engine
Oracle Essbase is the most advanced, high performance calculation engine on the market. With more than 350 pre-built, out-of-the-box functions it accelerates complex business model development and requires only a single point of maintenance to manage data and business rules. From straightforward aggregations to complex cross-dimensional allocations; from comprehensive time series intelligence to financial sophistication, the Oracle Essbase calculator delivers premium performance and breadth of functionality.
Best custom analytic environment
Oracle Essbase enables line-of-business users to drive application design with rapid iterations. The highly graphical “outline” technology makes it easy to build dimensions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios. Oracle Essbase allows the analysis and identification of trends and relationships, which can be used in conjunction with its unique multi-user read/write technology to produce forecasts and what-if scenarios. The Oracle Essbase engine powers the Hyperion Planning suite of applications, and optimizes performance via a range of data storage and compression methods configurable for the type of application being built. Capable of massive scalability for enterprisewide deployments, Oracle Essbase supports both 32- and 64-bit computing across both Windows and Unix operating environments.
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, Fusion Edition (Financial Reporting) enables book-quality financial management and reporting targeted at meeting the unique requirements of the Finance department or any functional area that requires very highly formatted multidimensional reporting. This financial reporting solution can use Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Essbase as data sources.
Financial Reporting provides conditional suppression and automatic calculations that can be used to focus and filter reports. A graphical, object-based interface enables the rapid creation of reports that combine grids of data and text, charts, graphs, and images. A library of reusable report components simplifies and streamlines the process of building and maintaining complex reports. Users have complete control over layouts, formatting, fonts, and colors, as well as a flexible range of output options enabling wide distribution via print, HTML Web pages, PDF, and online viewing. A scalable, cross-platform report server facilitates easy deployment to large user communities. Lastly, reports and books can be dynamicly scheduled, with the ability to generate and email separate report outputs for members in a dimension (bursting).
Financial Reporting shares common administration, user management, installation, and configuration support with other Hyperion BI tools. This common infrastructure provides one point of access for end users to all content while reducing the maintenance required for IT professionals.