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FDM and FDMEE – What You Need to Know

Understanding the Value in Migrating

Russ Rogers

Reid Kerr


Meet the Speakers

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Reid Kerr

Senior Lead – Close & Consolidations, Emtec

• 21 Years of hands on consulting experience

• 8 Years at Hyperion (IMRS, Software, Solutions, etc.)

• 12 Years Partner and Independent Firms

• Hyperion Certified (background in accounting, fx, m&a)

• 336-996-4242 office / 336-210-6934 mobile (Go TarHeels!)

• [email protected]

Russ Rogers

National Practice Lead – Close & Consolidations, Emtec

• 23 Years of hands on consulting experience

• 9 Years at Hyperion (IMRS, Software, Solutions, etc.)

• 12 Years Partner and Independent Firms

• CPA, CMA, Hyperion Certified (accounting, fx, IC, m&a)

• 312-561-3398 office / 816-721-1908 mobile (Go Jayhawks!)

• [email protected]


Introductions

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Emtec Functional Experience

• Over 400 applications across multitude of

Hyperion products

• Practical experience as well as technical

expertise across all industries

Emtec Technical Experience

• In-house technical group – led by Luis

Castillo

• Experience across the breadth of Oracle’s

EPM suite

A cohesive team supporting your Oracle

Applications


What is FDMEE ?


Financial Data Quality Management-Enterprise Edition

•FDM and ERP Integrator combined into a single product

•Based on ODI with the FDM process wrapper. Combines the platform

strength of ODI, with time tested process and methodology of FDM

•Windows Based FDM still available for existing customers

–11.1.2.3 is terminal release of FDM

–Upgrade in place for the last time

–Migration to FDMEE required starting with 11.1.2.4

•New Customers may only license FDMEE

•All new implementations are recommended to occur in FDMEE

–Recommend 11.1.2.3.5xx

–11.1.2.4 looks very good, in process of testing

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Improvements in 11.1.2.3

• Integrates security with Shared Services

•Simplifies maintenance and development through different workflows

•Reduces need for custom scripting for most straight forward tasks

• Is certified with PeopleSoft 9.2

•New Customers may only license FDMEE going forward

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Improvements in 11.1.2.4

• Can now specify target application options specific to a location

• Easily move data between the EPM applications irrespective of the dimensionality of the application without having to create a data file from the EPM source application

• Supports write-back from all EPM applications (except the Accounts Reconciliation Manger) to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications

• Enables you to map source fields graphically to target dimension members

• Can view mapping errors and fix them instantly when mapping errors have occurred in the Data Load Workbench

• Can now launch the Data Load Workbench component of FDMEE and manage data load activities in Financial Close Management

• Can concatenate an unlimited number of ERP segments and define mappings on the concatenated code combinations

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Upgrade Considerations

Benefits and Opportunities



•Classic FDM has some limitations that are now covered by FDMEE

•For example, when multi-dimensional mappings were needed, most of

the people used mapping scripts

-Difficult to maintain and understand

-Black Box

-Upgrade Considerations (Understatement of the year)

-New mapping type will probably replace all your mapping scripts

-In addition, you can use look-up dimensions in FDMEE to support

your multi-dimensional mappings

•In FDMEE, we have a new mapping type called Multi-Dimensional

mapping

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•Classic FDM required separately maintained locations to enforce

even slightly different mapping schemas or sources

–The more locations you have, the more you will have to maintain

–Data load rules allow you to simplify your location structure. Two locations

for two different file types may be replaced by one location and two data

load rules having each one import format

–Can share related mapping further reducing maintenance

• Import process is almost always the bottle neck in Classic FDM

–Mapping process is performed during the import process and 90% of the

customers having performance issues during import follow this rule: Wrong

mapping logic design -> poor performance during import

–Better performance with large data sets

–Redesigning your artifacts will improve maintenance efforts and workflow

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•You will have to re-write your scripts (import, mapping, event, and

custom)

–Even if you keep VB for event and custom scripts, you will have to do some

changes as VB Script is replaced by VB .NET

–Event and custom scripts are best written in Jython

• Integration scripts are not supported anymore as import scripts so they need to be

implemented in BefImport event script (Jython or VB .NET)

• VB mapping scripts are not supported anymore so you will have to re-write them as

Jython or SQL mapping scripts (or replace by multi-dimensional mappings)

•Opportunity to take advantage of process improvements

–11.1.2.2 data transfer process example

–Direct Feed from ledger example

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Process Elements

How Does It Work?



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File

Excel

XML

Other

Systems

Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JDE, Fusion

APPs, SAP R/3

Data WarehouseData Mart

Data Strategy Management

Financial Close

Planning & Forecasting

Profitability Management

Financial Reports

Microsoft Office

Data & Metadata

Drill-Through & Write-Back

Web Interface

Meta-data


FDMEE Supported Target EPM Platforms

•FDMEE supports the following EPM target applications (Oracle

Hyperion EPM Architect and Classic):

–Planning and the Planning Modules

–Public Sector Planning and Budgeting

–Financial Management

–Financial Close Management (ARM, SDM)

–Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM) and Tax Provision

–Essbase BSO and ASO

• If Essbase has been deployed in standalone mode, it must be registered with

Shared Services since it does not work directly with FDMEE

–Planning applications that rely on the standalone Essbase application

cannot work directly with FDMEE

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Process Elements

• FDMEE is accessed directly from Workspace

• Security managed through Shared Services

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FDMEE is now directly linked to Sources

•FDMEE Is now directly linked to sources – regardless of type

•Focuses on workflow with artifacts used to support it

– Define the Data/Metadata Source

– Define the Target Application

– Define the Source Accounting Entity

•11.1.2.4 Considerations

– Supports write back from all EPM applications

– Doesn’t require data files to transfer between EPM applications

– Supports the Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM) and Tax Provision

Application

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• Data can be pulled from multiple types of sources

• Adaptors no longer need to be downloaded as several are integrated within

FDMEE

• Of course, importing from flat files and other types are available along with

other EPM applications (think Planning to HFM, for example)

• These sources can be used for loading and drill through, allowing destination

applications to have a link back to the data details contained within the

source system

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• Target application and types (HFM, Planning, Essbase) are also easily

identified along with their necessary components for mapping purposes

• Available fields of the application are brought in for both the source and target

systems, thus allowing ease of mapping

• No need to configure multiple adaptors

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Process Elements

•After the source systems have been identified, the following items are

identified:

• The ledger or business unit (accounting entity) to use

• The Chart of Accounts

• Currency

• Calendar

• Responsibility name

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Process Elements

• Period Mapping still exists but now more flexible and can be shared

• Category Mapping still exists but now reads directly from target application

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Process Elements

This is the last version of FDM using VB for all scripts, Jython will be

the go-forward strategy with FDMEE for most scripting needs.

Workflow menu Setup menu

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VB to Jython Script Example

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Process Elements

Finally:

Yes, the fish still exist…..

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FDMEE Next Steps

Takeaways and Actions


What You Should Remember About FDMEE

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• While loading data, load options can be specified for differently for each location

One location should be loaded as replace whereas another one is used for

supplemental data and should be loaded as merge (think GL vs stat data)

• During the data loading process, mappings errors can be corrected directly without

having to jump out to other screens, update mappings then go back and re-import

• Simplify the loading process as import scripts aren’t needed = process

improvements. Features within the product are quicker than the tool having to go out

to run scripts

• Everything happens in the database layer: faster without clunky file structures, and

the dirty looks you get during your security audit


What You Should Remember About FDMEE

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• Ability to load from one application to another (with drill back feature), think HFM

to Planning with links back to Planning drivers; Essbase to HFM with links back

to detailed analysis

• Adaptors are no longer needed

• All security handled through Shared Services. Backups and transfers between

environments go through Shared Services’ Life Cycle Management


FDMEE Next Steps

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Virtual Assessment – Free Offering

4 hour exercise completed by senior architects

Information collected and questionnaire completed prior to session

2 hour collaboration virtually to understand your implementation and

needs and deliver findings

Deliverables include documented upgrade considerations, broad cost and

effort estimate, and timeline

Reach out to your Emtec Field Sales Account Executives or Inside

Sales Development Mangers. Feel free to contact us to engage directly

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Questions?

Send your questions to Reid Kerr and Russ Rogers

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