BI Source utilizes the Oracle Hyperion platform to put actionable information into the hands of every business person in your enterprise. By giving your knowledge workers important information about performance, we help them make better business decisions.
Hyperion Financial Management
Oracle's Hyperion financial management product is a comprehensive, Web-based application that delivers global financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis in a single, highly scalable software solution. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management utilizes today's most advanced technology, yet is built to be owned and maintained by the enterprise's finance team.
- Benefits
- Accelerate reporting cycles: Reduce closing cycles by days; deliver more timely results to internal and external stakeholders.
- Improve transparency and compliance: Reduce the cost of compliance (as stipulated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, electronic filing, and other regulatory requirements) and support disclosure requirements, such as sustainability reporting.
- Perform strategic analysis: Spend less time on processing and more time on value-added analysis.
- Deliver a single truth: Provide a single version of the truth to support financial management and statutory reporting.
- Easily integrate: Integrate not only with Hyperion products but also with your existing infrastructure.
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.
- 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.
Hyperion Performance Scoreboard
Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard is a Balanced Scorecard Collaborative-certified application that helps companies clearly articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across the enterprise, monitor key performance indicators, and improve business alignment. The software offers you complete strategy- and accountability-mapping capabilities, as well as Web-based message boards, forums and discussion threads.
- Benefits
- Communicate effectively across the enterprise: Share operational performance management strategies throughout the business.
- Clarify business objectives: Align the enterprise with corporate strategy, plans and objectives.
- Focus resources: Improve operational efficiency through a continuous business performance management cycle.
- Increase employee participation: Promote collaboration and accountability for results.
- Create value: Build future economic value for key stakeholders.
Hyperion Strategic Finance
Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance software is a financial modeling application that lets executives identify and understand the full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies. Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance software delivers pre-packaged modeling and forecasting so your finance experts can better spend their time testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.
- Benefits
- Create Business Value: Integrate long-term planning, treasury strategies and corporate development analysis.
- Save time and money: Reduce model-building efforts using pre-built financial modeling logic.
- Improve Strategic Decision-Making: Perform more comprehensive financial analysis in less time; reduce simulation time from days to minutes.
- Minimize risk and uncertainty: Improve accuracy of financial models with ensured accounting integrity.
- Deploy Quickly: Implement quickly with minimal IT support.
Hyperion Capital Asset Planning
Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning software is a specialized planning module that automates the planning of capital assets and capital asset-related expenses, such as depreciation, maintenance and insurance. Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning includes pre-built functionality and best practices that easily plan for all your capital expenses. It is also directly linked to Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus, so you can immediately assess the impact of your capital expenses on your overall expenses and financial statements.
- Benefits
- Deploy Quickly: Simplify implementation processes and reduce maintenance requirements.
- Improve Confidence: Manage all capital expenses easily; ensure security over data, calculations, and global settings.
- Optimize Resources: Assess the immediate impact of capital expense decisions on financial statements.
- Enhance Accuracy: Achieve greater accuracy, predictability, and accountability by involving operational-level planners.
- Gain Efficiency: Eliminate manual steps by using a comprehensive planning solution.
Hyperion Workforce Planning
Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning software is a special-purpose planning module that makes headcount, salary, and compensation planning fast and efficient across the enterprise. Designed with pre-built functionality and best practices that are ready to use right out of the box, it simplifies the planning of workforce and workforce-related expenses, such as bonuses, fringe benefits, overtime and merit increases. It also automatically and seamlessly links your workforce expense plans into Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus, to deliver accurate and real-time awareness of the business impact of your workforce decisions on your overall expense plans.
- Benefits
- Deploy Quickly: Simplify implementation processes and reduce maintenance requirements.
- Improve Confidence: Address all workforce planning requirements with a fully flexible and open architecture .
- Optimize Resources: Assess real-time impact of salaries and associated workforce expenses.
- Enhance Accuracy: Achieve greater accuracy, predictability, and accountability through detailed headcount, salary and benefit planning.
- Save Time and Money: Reduce workforce planning cycle time by eliminating dependency on spreadsheets.
Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management
Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management is a packaged solution for finance users that helps develop standardized financial data management processes with its Web-based guided workflow user interface. Its data preparation server can ease integrating and validating financial data from any of your source systems. And to further reduce your data integration costs as well as data mapping complexities, Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management includes pre-packaged adapters for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Plus, Oracle Hyperion Planning Plus, Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise, Oracle Essbase Plus, and Oracle E-Business Suite.
- Benefits
- Increase quality: Improve your financial data quality and confidence in the numbers.
- Simplify data handling: Abridge the collection, mapping, verification, and movement of financial data.
- Standardize: Rely on repeatable financial processes.
- Reduce expenditures: Lower the cost of compliance.
- Improve productivity: Eliminate manual file manipulation and bottlenecks.
- Improve insight: Drill-through from EPM applications to transactional systems.
Hyperion Data Relationship Management
As companies grow and evolve, it becomes essential to manage master data across information silos that result from mergers and acquisitions, departmental initiatives, or legacy system proliferation. Data consistency, integrity, quality and accuracy suffer. And, no one trusts the information and insight that ensues. Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management (previously known as Hyperion Master Data Management) provides enterprises with a solution to build consistency within master data assets despite endless changes within the underlying transactional and analytical systems.
Specifically, Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management provides the industry's first data model-agnostic master data management solution built to enable financial and analytical master data management in dynamic, fast-changing business environments.
- Financial Master Data Management
- Create an enterprise view of financial chart of accounts, cost centers and legal entities with a view to govern ongoing financial management and consolidation based on consistent definitions of financial and reporting structures across general ledger systems, financial consolidation, planning and budgeting systems.
- Analytical Master Data Management
- Create an enterprise view of analytical dimensions, reporting structures, performance measures and their related attributes and hierarchies using Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management's data model-agnostic foundation. Construct departmental perspectives that bear referential integrity and consistency with master data constructs based on validations and business rules that enforce enterprise governance policies. Synchronize master data with downstream systems including business intelligence (BI)/enterprise performance management (EPM) systems, data warehouses and data marts to gain trustworthy insight.
- Benefits
- Change management and control: Unify cross-functional perspectives to a master record while giving users the freedom to make changes and construct alternate departmental views of the data that are consistent and accurate.
- Best-of-breed hierarchy management: Streamline master data changes using drag-and-drop hierarchy maintenance. Enable side-by-side comparison and one-click navigation across both balanced and ragged hierarchies, with
built-in referential integrity. - Audit and compliance: Provide a framework for query, comparison, and full history of all master data changes, including documented versioning and roll-back at any point in time or recorded modification to master data elements.
- Workflow integration: Hot-pluggable integration with workflow tools using web services.
- Consolidate
- Domain-agnostic master data repository.
- Wizard-driven metadata & master data configuration.
- Batch / File import.
- Mass & incremental updates.
- Application templates for metadata migration.
- SOAP / COM APIs for SOA integration.
- Rationalize
- Business user interface.
- Automated attribute maintenance.
- Advanced hierarchy management.
- Compare and blend/merge changes.
- Enforce policies via business rules & validations.
- Build rationalized maintenance structure.
- Govern
- Manage change requests / approvals via workflow.
- Control access with fine-grain data security.
- Run "what if" scenarios or roll back planned changes to any point in time.
- Understand changes over time based on full history and "as of" versioning.
- Comply with regulations using comprehensive audit trail and reports.
- Share
- Target-specific exports for robust, repeatable & transparent consumption.
- Use books to aggregate related exports for complex consumption targets (e.g. DW).
- Schedule publication of exports to files or target schemas.
- Enable SOA exchange via comprehensive web services APIs.
Hyperion Integrated Operational Planning
Oracle Hyperion Integrated Operational Planning enables the alignment of key operational planning processes with financial planning to provide a common perspective across financial and operational plans. It addresses a range of high-value planning processes, such as demand-supply alignment, product allocation, and integrated revenue planning, which are supported poorly with spreadsheet tools today. The solution is based on an innovative change-based data modeling engine that allows rich cross-functional modeling and interactive business impact analysis at an enterprise scale. It complements existing financial and supply chain planning systems by linking these functional plans into an integrated business planning framework. This allows planners across business functions to change operational assumptions, re-evaluate planning scenarios, assess business impact, and rapidly update the plan of record.
- Benefits
- Align financial and operational plans: Identify and resolve critical gaps between financial and operational plans by linking functional plans, planning models and assumptions in an integrated framework.
- Achieve consensus across functions: Manage cross-functional collaboration and approval workflows to share planning assumptions and decisions throughout the organization.
- Understand business-wide impact of plan revisions: Assess the impact of plan alternatives on key financial and operational metrics. Establish financial desirability as well as operational feasibility of plans and drive fact-based decisions.
- Reduce planning cycles and improve productivity: Leverage technology for rapid cross-functional modeling, interactive scenario analysis and dynamic planning to compress decision cycles.
- Leverage existing financial and supply chain planning solutions: Complement functional planning and execution systems and integrate relevant data and master data from these systems to provide an environment for integrated business planning. Submit plan changes back to planning and execution systems for immediate action.
Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management
Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management software is a new performance management application that is part of Oracle's enterprise performance management (EPM) system and provides actionable insights into costs and profitability. This solution drives business performance by discovering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
Unlike traditional activity-based costing applications, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management offers a flexible allocations platform for any method including ABC, time estimation, etc. The application also supports both cost and revenue management. Traceability maps and audit trail capabilities provide unique transparency and ease of use. Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management is the only packaged profitability application that leverages Oracle Essbase Plus, the industry's leading OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) server, for faster, easier, powerful multidimensional analysis. Unlike nonintegrated EPM suite vendors, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management shares a common foundation and is integrated with the other Hyperion performance management applications. This enables a single point of maintenance for reduced cost of administration and ownership versus non-integrated point solutions.
- Benefits
- Discover drivers of costs and profitability: Identify sources and attributes of profitability with multidimensional analysis. Improve decisions with scenario modeling capabilities. Enable management best practices by leveraging profitability as a performance metric.
- Empower users with visibility and flexibility: Accurately allocate costs with a flexible allocation engine that supports any methodology. Gain confidence in cost allocations and revenue flows with graphical traceability maps. Quickly validate models with user-defined business rules.
- Improve resource alignment: Impact budgets and plans through integration with other performance management applications. Strategically allocate resources with accurate profitability and cost information. Improve marketing programs through customer segmentation.
Additional Information
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