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HFM Tips and Tricks

Christine Allegretti

Intellient

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Agenda

• Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Rounding

• API Custom Development

• Automated Consolidation Journals• Automated Consolidation Journals

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Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)

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What is available

• Technology Preview 1

–Metalink Patch Number 7388231

–Supports Financial Management, Financial

Reporting, Performance Management ArchitectReporting, Performance Management Architect

– Information about managing web applications using

out-of-the-box features of Grid Control

–On top of metrics & reports provided out-of-the-

box by Grid Control, there are

• 27 additional metrics

• 18 reports

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Financial Management Reporting Pack

Features• Monitoring

– Created product specific metrics

• Analysis

– Added product specific canned reports and graphs – Added product specific canned reports and graphs

combining real time and historic metrics

• Managing Complexity

– Reports may be run across multiple servers

– Documentation describes setting up OEM topology and

groups

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FM Reporting Pack Product Coverage

• Hyperion Financial Management

– Web Server

– Application Server

• Enterprise Performance Manager

• Hyperion Shared Services

– Web Server

– Application Server

• SmartView

• Financial Data Quality Manager

Coverage across the entire FM System 9 suite

Manager

– Web Server

– Dimension Server

– Data Sync Server

• Hyperion Reports

– Reports Server

– Schedule Server

• Databases

– Oracle

– DB2

– Microsoft SQL

• Web Servers

– Tomcat

– WebSphere

– WebLogic

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EPM System Home Page

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Dashboard

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Component Home Page

SLR – set via link in related links – Edit Service Level Rule

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Setting Thresholds

Setting Thresholds –via metric and policy settings in related links

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Status History

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System Topology

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Financial Management Reports

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Financial Reporting Reports

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Performance Management

Architect Reports

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Rounding

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Issue

• Scaled financial statements can have rounding issues

• Total Company (no-scale) 47,500• Comp A 15,000

• Comp B 10,200

• Comp C 22,300• Comp C 22,300

• Total Company (scaled) 48• Comp A 15

• Comp B 10

• Comp C 22

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Available Solutions?

• Plug value in hierarchy

• External reporting in Excel

• Careful review of numbers

• Custom Rules Solution

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Custom Rules Solution

• Uses Custom Dimension to view Scaled data

• Compare Scaled data to base and determine

rounding adjrounding adj

• Navigates account hierarchy top-down to make

appropriate adjustment

– Adjusts largest account for smallest impact

– Accounts can be excluded from adjustment

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Define Constants

Const ROUNDING_FACTOR = "RoundingFactor" '1000

Const TOP_ACCOUNT = "NetProfit" '"300000"

Const SOURCE_C1 = "AllCustom1" '"Total"

Const SOURCE_C2 = "AllCustom2" '"Nature"

Const SOURCE_C3 = "[None]“

Const SOURCE_C4 = "ClosingBalance" '"[None]“

Const DEST_C1 = "[None]"

Const DEST_C2 = "[None]"'Const DEST_C2 = "[None]"'

Const DEST_C3 = "[None]"

Const DEST_C4_BASE = "Round_Base" '"RoundedOriginal"

Const DEST_C4_UP = "Round_BaseUp" '"Not Used"

Const DEST_C4_DOWN = "Round_TopDown“ ‘"RoundedAdjustment"

Const DEST_C4_TOTAL = "RoundedTotal“‘"RoundedTotal"

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Add 2 new accounts

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Update Custom Dimension

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Exclude Account from Adjustment

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Rounding Steps in Rule file

• Clear ROUNDED members regardless of running

rounding

• Copy base data and apply rounding factor

• Start from the top of the account hierarchy and check • Start from the top of the account hierarchy and check

the derived rounded totals against scaled original totals

– Where there is a difference... create the adjustment at largest

child account

• Quit when derived rounded values = scaled original

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Caveats

• Has been implemented on test applications

only

• Requires strong “rule” skills

• Processes one entity at a time• Processes one entity at a time

• Must have open custom dimension

• Adjustments are hardcoded to certain

custom members

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API Custom Development

Copy JournalsCopy Journals

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Copy Journals• Why

– Many Reasons for Copying Journals

• Audit Trail

• No Manual Intervention

• Process Time

• ASP Page Customization

– OPJournals.asp

• Used to set the parameters for what journals are copied

• Dynamic

– OPJournalsvbs.asp

• Used for the actual copying of the journals

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OPJournals.asp

• Modify OPJournals.asp to your specific criteria

– Any Mapping (e.g. – Closing > Opening)

• Can use System member attributes(User Defined, etc)

• Specific mapping

– Periods

– Value Members– Value Members

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Create a Link• Set up a Link

• Create a Link to the OPJournals.asp page

– http://demodrive/hfm/data/opjournals.asp

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Copying Journals• Ensure Journals to be copied exist in last

period of year.

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Copying Journals• Ensure that the resulting journals do not exist in

destination period.

• Open Journal Period for destination period

• Launch Copy Link

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Copying Journals

• Set destination POV

• Select Go

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Copying Journals

• Should receive the following successful

confirmation message

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Copying Journals

• Check Destination POV for Journal

–Scenario “Consolidat1”

–Year “2009”

–Period “M01”

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Copying Journals

• Copied Journal

–Posted

–Has New Accounts

–New Lines

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• Source Journal

Copying Journals

• Destination Journal

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Copying Journals

• Error Messages

–Period is Not Opened • Ensure that Destination Period is Open

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Copying Journals

• Error Messages

–Source Period Does Not Have Any Journals

• Ensure that the Destination POV is Right

• Ensure that Journals Exist in Source POV

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Copying Journals

• Error Messages

–Source POV Does Not Exist

• Trying to Copy to the First Year

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Link From Financial Reports Using API

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Automated Consolidation JournalsAutomated Consolidation Journals

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Automated Consolidation Journals• Pre-Zola – data available through source/destination

transactions

• Zola

– Data populated in journals module via executing

consolidationsconsolidations

– Only populated through HS.CON with Nature

– Journals viewable, reportable and extractable

– Journals cannot be un-posted

– Journals cannot be modified and reloaded

– Journals cannot be edited

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Automated Consolidation Journals - Details

• Created through consolidation rules with Nature

– HS.Con “POV”, Factor, “Nature”

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Automated Consolidation Journals - Details

• Populated in [Elimination] and [Proportion] Value

members

• Journal labels are: Parent_Entity_Nature

– Parent and Entity are Current Entity and it’s Parent that – Parent and Entity are Current Entity and it’s Parent that

is being consolidated

– In the journal file the entity will be the Destination

Entity

• Usually the same as Current entity

– Each line description will include the source POV and

the calculation

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Journal Listing

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Journal Details

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Journal Adjustment Selections

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