FINANCIAL REPORTING

AGENDAAGENDA

AGENDA

� Background

� Hyperion Financial Reports

� Hyperion Smartview

� Demo of Key Advanced Concepts

� Questions33

PRACTICE BACKGROUND

� Leader of Oracle Practice, 1st Original Customer of Hyperion Planning

� 1st Customer Migration of OFA to Hyperion

�Member of Oracle Customer Advisory Board�Member of Oracle Customer Advisory Board

�Member of Hyperion SIG

�Member of Oracle Beta Development Team

� Consultant experiences (100’s of Implementation)

� Dozens of Certified Hyperion Consultants

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INDUSTRY BACKGROUND

� Solutions built around the following industries� Financial Services

� Aerospace and Defense

� Manufacturing

Retail

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� Retail

� High Tech

� Consumer

� Higher Education

� Healthcare

� Communications

� Hospitality, and Real Estate

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CURRENT IMPLEMENTATIONS

� Oracle 11.1.1 Retail Application-Multiple

Apps

� Oracle 9.3.1 Multiple Implementations

A&D

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� A&D

� Financial Services

� Government

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR REPORTING NEEDSUNDERSTANDING YOUR REPORTING NEEDS

REPORTING AUDIENCE

� Read Only Viewers of the Data

� Integration with Office

� Ad-Hoc Analysis/Pivot Tables

� Dashboard Like Feel

� Provide variances to the Data

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DATA SOURCES FOR REPORTINGDATA SOURCES FOR REPORTING

DATA SOURCE FOR REPORTING

� Relational

� Essbase

� Planning

� Hyperion Financial Management

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REPORTING TOOLSREPORTING TOOLS

REPORTING TOOLS

� Financial Reports

� SmartView

� Web Analysis

� Interactive Reporting

� Answers +

� OBIEE Dashboards

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FINANCIAL REPORTSFINANCIAL REPORTS

FINANCIAL REPORTS

� Advantages� Highly formatted reports

� Distribution of Reports

� SnapshotsSnapshots

� Scheduling

� Cell Text and Supporting Detail

� Data Integrity

� Workspace Integration

� Multiple output methods

� Annotations

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FINANCIAL REPORTS

� Disadvantages� Report Client

� Limited Ad-Hoc Analysis

� Performance� Performance

� Prompts

� No Relational Reporting

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REPORT KEY DESIGN PRINCIPLES

� Point of View, prompts by user

� Batches, Scheduling monthly books

� Snapshots, be careful with security

Create a Standard Set 30 to 50 Reports� Create a Standard Set 30 to 50 Reports

� Disable Access for Certain Report during critical process times

� Create ASO Model for Archiving and Report Distribution

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FINANCIAL REPORT-FORMULAS

� Report Formulas vs. Essbase Formulas

� Column Formulas

� Row Formulas

FINANCIAL REPORTS-TEXT

�Cell Text

�Supporting Detail

�Annotations

�Planning Annotations

FINANCIAL REPORT-BOOKS

� Concept of Books

� Report Books

� Snapshot Books

SNAPSHOTS

� Concept of Snapshots

� Snapshot Books

� Snapshots

SECURITY

� Reports Security

� Books Security

� Snapshot Security

SMARTVIEW INTEGRATION

� Datasources

� Importing Documents

� Refreshing Documents

� Leveraging Ad-Hoc

FINANCIAL REPORTING 11.1.1

�Copy and paste repository items

�Apply improved search options

�Set permissions for multiple repository items

Apply folder permissions to children�Apply folder permissions to children

�Support Adobe Distiller 8 for PDF generation

�Add external content to books

�Add and manage annotations in reports

COPY & PASTE

� You can copy repository items from one folder

to the same folder or to another folder.

� With this feature, you save time by duplicating

and then modifying similar reportsand then modifying similar reports

SEARCH OPTIONS

� With these improved search options, you save

time when searching for repository items.

� You initiate a search in the Search box.

� You can use the * and ? wildcards in the � You can use the * and ? wildcards in the

Search box.

� The search is not case-sensitive.

REPOSITORY PERMISSION

� You can select multiple repository items and

define their permissions.

� With this feature, you save time by managing

many items at one time.many items at one time.

� You can define folder permissions that apply to

all items created in the folder.

� This feature saves you time by assigning

permissions to items when you create them.

EXTERNAL CONTENT IN BOOKS

� Microsoft Word (DOC and RTF)

� Microsoft Excel (XLS)

� Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT and PPS)

Adobe Acrobat (PDF)� Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

� Text files (TXT)

� You must import the documents into the

repository before you can insert them into

books.

ANNOTATIONS

� Threaded Annotations

� Attach Documents

� Footnotes

Printing� Printing

� Source Intersection of Annotations

CAPITAL DETAIL

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INCOME STATEMENT

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EMPLOYEE STATUS REPORT

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SMARTVIEWSMARTVIEW

HYPERION SMARTVIEW ADHOC

� Advantages� Excel Like Functionality

� Pivot Tables

� Formatting/Conditional Formatting� Formatting/Conditional Formatting

� Point of View

� Distribute to excel users

� Smart Slices

� Report Designer

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HYPERION SMARTVIEW ADHOC

� Dis-advantages� Data Integrity

� Dimensional Model Knowledge

� Training� Training

� Reliance on Excel

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AD-HOC LAYOUT SAMPLE

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OFFICE INTEGRATION

� Tools� Financial Reports

� Web Analysis

� Interactive Reporting� Interactive Reporting

� Ability to Update Documents

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SMARTVIEW 11.1.1

� Architecture and Data Source Support

� Data Source Security

� Smart slices

� Report Designer� Report Designer

� Other Enhancements

WORKSPACE

� Integrate all financial documents

� Create Department Folders

� Create Excel Ad-Hoc models� Create Excel Ad-Hoc models

� Create Dashboard for both KPI’s Metrics and

Ad-Hoc Analysis (Standard, and Ad-Hoc)

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OFFICE IMPORT EXAMPLE

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WHAT TOOL TO USE AND WHEN?

� Financial Reporting Deck-HFR

� Smartview Word and Powerpoint-Integrate Financial Documents

� Ad Hoc Analysis-Smartview and WA� Ad Hoc Analysis-Smartview and WA

� Simple Dashboards-WA

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DEMODEMO

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT

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