Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Component overview
This post is brief overview of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Products which consists of
1) Hyperion Foundation Services
1.1) EPM Shared Services – provides EPM System Products identity management, user provisioning, and task flow management.
1.2) EPM workspace – thin client interface to work with EPM content.
1.3) Performance Management Architect – enables creation and deployment of financial applications from central location.
1.4) Calculate Manager – module used by Planning, Essbase, and Financial Management users can use to design, validate and administer business rules.
1.5) Smart view for Office – microsoft office add-in for Hyperion System Products.
2) Essbase
2.1) Essbase – is business analysis software to develop custom analytics and enterprise performance management applications.
2.2) Essbase Administration Service – administration tool to manage Essbase deployed on application server.
2.3) Business Rules – installed and configured as part of Administration Services, is used to create, execute and manage business rules.
2.4) Integration Services – tool to create OLAP models, outlines and Essbase Database.
2.5 ) Provider Services – is middle tier data source provider for essbase, planning, and so on
2.6) Essbase Studio – consolidates cube-construction activities in one interface.
3) Hyperion Reporting and Analysis
3.1) Hyperion Interactive Reporting – intuitive user-directed query and analysis capabilities.
3.2) Hyperion Financial Reporting – book-quality financial and management reports that comply with regulations and external requirements.
3.3) Hyperion SQR production Reporting – high-volume, formatted reports coming form different sources
3.4) Hyperion Web Analysis – provides online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis.
4) Hyperion Financial Performance Management Application
4.1) Planning – is a centralized planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes.
4.2) Financial Management – is financial systems software application that provides global collection reporting and analysis in single solution.
4.3) Financial Close Management – to define, execute, and report on interdependent activities of financial close period.
4.4) Performance Scorecard – is a balanced scorecard collaborative certified application to articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across enterprise and monitor KPI.
4.5) Hyperion Strategic Finance – is financial modelling application to identify and understand full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies.
4.6) Profitability and Cost Management – is an analytic application for managing cost and revenue allocation to compute profitability for business segment.
4.7) Disclosure Management – used to assemble a reporting package for submission to a regulatory agency.
5) Data Management
5.1) Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) – helps finance users develop standardised financial data management processes.
5.2) ERP Integrator – Module of FDM, to integrate metadata and data from ERP source system to Hyperion EPM target application.
5.3) Hyperion Data Relationship Manager (DRM) – enables to build consistency within master data assets despite changes within the underlying transactional and analytical systems.