
Hyperion Planning Mike Williams
Product Summary • A Centralized, Web-based planning tool that will permit remote users to enter plan data through the web. • Process management empowers users to track the progress of their budget. • Data stored and calculated in Essbase • Simplified, powerful reporting
Product Overview - Highlights • TargetSetting • Top-down, summarized level • Powerful Business Rules • Graphical User Interface • Allocation rules (multi-tiered) • Reporting • High quality production reports • Spreadsheet Add-in
Product Overview - Highlights • Process Management (Workflow) • Multiple scenarios & versions • Promote, review, sign-off, approval, reject • Secured approval process • Collaborative review • Annotations • Workflow audit trial (history)
Dimensionality & Structure • 7 Common Dimensions: • Account • Entity • Scenario • Version • Time Period • Year • Currency • 13 Additional Dimensions: • Product • Channel • Project • Etc. Budgeting App XREF PT 3 PT 2 Plan Type 1
Financial Management WEB Hyperion Enterprise WINDOWS Scalability Micro Control DOS Global Functionality Hyperion Consolidation Evolution
Hyperion Financial Management World-Class Financial Analytics for Global Organizations • Report timely and accurately to regulatory bodies, financial analysts, stakeholders and business partners • Unify all financial management data for “one version of the truth” • Induces collaborative financial decision-making • Access for 1000’s of users • Complies with IT Standards
Prepackaged Financial + • Financial reporting • Currency Translation • Intercompany Eliminations • Journal Entries • Line-item Detail • Account Types (Assets, etc.) • Time-series Intelligence • Textual Annotations
Advanced Web Architecture • All end-user tasks can be executed on a central database over Web • Meta-data management executed over the web • Sever based application functionality – true thin client • High Scalability – 1000s of Users • High performance plus RDBMS!
Benefits Scale to 1000s of Users Modify Metadata remotely (offline – LIVE) Nothing to install/maintain on client Meets IT Standards Single point of Security maintenance Build if you desire No data corruption Features N-Tier Technology for High Scaling Full operational capability through web True thin-client - zero footprint RDBMS storage – 24/7, rollback and recovery Leverages NT Security (LDAP coming…) Open Object Model Technical Benefits
HFM Overall - #1 Source: META Group, March 2002 POINTS OF INTEREST… • Only vendor to score a ‘5’ in any category • Clear focus and R&D position as a leader • Succeeds Hyperion Enterprise as the leader from the last two years
HFM Release 2.2 • Analyzer Support • HAB 2.5 Support • HAL 3.0 Support • Web Data Entry Form Enhancements • Freezing Column / Row Headers • Column / Row Sizing • Linked Forms • Navigation Enhancements • Suppression of Zero / No Data in WDEF • Web Ownership Management Form • Stand Alone Installation Package for Retrieve and Pivot • HFM Release 3.0 • Web UI Enhancements • Security on Custom Dimensions • Enhancements: • Line Item Detail • Process Management • Extended Analytics • LDAP Support • End User Load Balancing • HFM Release 3.0.X • Localization • HFM Release 3.0.1 • Combining Web Data Entry and Sparse Data Entry Forms Jul Oct Dec Mar 2003 Hyperion Financial Management