1. Streamlining the Migration Process with Accelatis
Powering I.T. Empowering Business.
Streamlining the Migration Process with Accelatis
Jonathan Berry
President & CEO
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2. Agenda Accelatis Intro Migrations Our Role How We Can Help
Example Validation Report
Controls Going Forward
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3. Development and Support Team
Who are We?
Hyperion Solutions: HFM Development Team – 1998
Oracle: Director of Engineering HFM / FDM – 2008
Accelatis: Founded in 2008
Jonathan Berry
Founder / CEO 20
Rob Poirier
Years of Hyperion / EPM Experience
Director of Client Services 80
Development and Support Team
Years of Combined Hyperion Experience
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4. Our Focused Mission Provide you the needed insight & control
into Oracle EPM / Hyperion to
efficiently & consistently
manage your system to deliver maximum user benefit….
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5. Our Solution Empower Business Users & IT Broad Approach to APM
Enterprise Systems
Manage
All Moving Parts
Monitor
Across All Environments
Resolve
More Quickly
Simulate
User experience
Optimize
Eliminate Bottlenecks
Support Streamline Process
Empower Business Users & IT
Broad Approach to APM
Deep Look into Underlying Systems
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6. Upgrades and New Applications
Mitigate project risks (“red”)
Lack of continuous executive support – Dashboards and KPI’s provide early communication of issues, change and progress to executives
Poor communication/management of issues and resources - Change/audit trail of key artifacts, accountability, streamlined communications through “root-cause analysis”
Complex data tie out - Accelatis highlights metadata changes
Meet deadlines and reduce project costs
Optimize performance
Fact based decisions
Prevent and manage issues
Accountability – “root-cause analysis”
Efficient deployment of consulting and internal resources (stress testing)
Reduce high-effort project work and re-work (optimization, stress testing)
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7. Best Practices Migration Preparation Installation on New Hardware
Existing Process
Migration Preparation
Installation on New Hardware
Application Migration
User Validation
Configuration
Rollout
Performance Testing
Capture User Activity
Validate New Installation
Controls Going Forward
Automated with Accelatis
Performance Baseline existing environment
Capture Server and Tuning Settings
Complete Environment Comparison
Validate New Configuration
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8. Capture Activity Capture actual User Activity in existing environment
SLAs
Activity Reports
Activity Analysis
Simulation Replay
Dashboards and Performance Graphs
User Activity Transactional Database
Real-time User Activity Capture
Simulated Activity
Data ported from existing activity logs
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9. Capture Server and Tuning Settings
Server Settings
Operating System Settings
File Versions
Product Tuning Settings
Application Settings
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10. Validate New Installation
Confirm grouped servers are in sync
Validate settings in recommended ranges
Foundation_1
Foundation_2
HFM_1
HFM_2
HFM_3
Essbase_1
Essbase_2
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11. Performance Testing
Automated baseline testing of every artifact in the system
Financial Reports
Planning Forms
Planning Business Rules
HFM Forms
Smartview Forms, Formula Sheets
Consolidations
Etc…
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12. Performance Testing (cont)
One size does not fit all
Performance testing is often thought of as a one-time occurrence to stress a Hyperion environment or worse, a box to check just ‘because’.
However
There are many types of performance testing and they can be extremely beneficial if incorporated into a company’s SDLC process (especially during a migration)
Baseline
Stress
Concurrency
Longevity
Regression
Integrated Health Check
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13. Baseline Testing Purpose: Technique:
Establish single value performance benchmarks for key activities and documents
Technique:
Simulate user activities and document performance in a single-user controlled environment
Frequency:
New Environments
After major applications or infrastructure changes
Deliverables:
Snapshot of single value performance of each benchmark activity
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14. Stress Testing Purpose: Technique:
Determine capacity of an environment
Technique:
Simulate user activity by ramping user count over time
Monitor response time and performance KPIs to determine inflection point
Tests can be single activity as well as mixed activity
Frequency:
New environments
After major application or infrastructure changes
After major software upgrades
Deliverables:
Concurrency thresholds for various activity and associated performance KPI data
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15. Concurrency Testing Purpose: Technique: Frequency: Deliverables:
Determine performance profile with multi-user activities without stressing the system. Detect performance degradation not noticeable with single user test.
Technique:
Set concurrency level so that performance and KPIs stabilize
Test duration need not be longer than stabilization period
Frequency:
After major application or infrastructure changes.
Weekly or better if automated.
Deliverables:
Response time data at various concurrency levels
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16. Longevity Testing Purpose: Technique: Frequency:
Variation of the Concurrency test.
Determine if any memory leak or timing issues exist that will only present themselves over time.
Technique:
Set concurrency level so that performance and KPIs stabilize
Monitor KPIs that can detect longer term issues (memory, log file sizes, handles, resources)
Allow to run in controlled or uncontrolled environment for extended duration (24 hrs, 72 hrs, 120 hrs)
Frequency:
In new environments and after software upgrades
Deliverables:
Performance KPI trend data
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17. Regression Testing Purpose: Technique: Frequency: Deliverables:
Extension of the Baseline Test.
Quickly validate if changes to the applications or infrastructure have any net effect on performance.
Technique:
Define set of benchmark activities and documents
Execute test on regular frequency with same conditions (ex: every night at 12:00am)
Compare regression results with historical data to detect trends
Frequency:
Nightly or weekly. Should be fully automated and scheduled so ‘cost’ is low.
Deliverables:
Fixed set of performance data for each run
Performance trend graphs
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18. Integrated Health Checks
Purpose:
Enable real-time feedback of performance anomalies from local and remote locations
Establish performance expectations from various sites
Technique:
Execute benchmark simulations from remote locations and save results centrally
If possible, also collect network data (PING, TraceRT)
Frequency:
Run in the background every minutes
Deliverables:
Real-time alerts based on defined performance thresholds
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19. Day in the Life Replay
Replay previous user activity in new environment
User Activity Transactional Database
Accelatis Simulator
Simulate Activity in New Environment
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20. Many possible transformations along the way
Replay Illustrated
Many possible transformations along the way
0min 10min 20min 30min 40min 50min 60min 70min 80min
Source
Activity
Apply
Filter
Apply
Map
Amplify
Compress
Distribute
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21. Complete Environment Compare
Server Settings
Application Settings
Product Tuning Settings
Files (when applicable)
Artifact existence
Artifact performance
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22. Relative Cost in $USDx1000
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23. Relative Duration in Weeks
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24. Controls Going Forward
Automated Versioned History of Configuration
Auditing of all configuration changes
Alerting on configuration changes
Alerting on problems in configuration
Automated Versioned History of Applications
Auditing of all key application elements
Alerting on application changes
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25. Upgrade/New Application Package
“We’re too busy right now…”
Too busy to reduce risk and ensure a high quality successful project?
Start anywhere – Accelatis adds significant value to each phase of Upgrade/New Applications projects
No user disruption – core installation is performed in 1 day while servers are running
Accelatis Services:
Option 1: Services handles 100% of Accelatis tasks associated with the Upgrade.
Option 2: Self Sufficient - Standard 80 hour customer enablement
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26. Questions? Jonathan Berry Ed DeLise President & CEO
Ed DeLise
VP Sales & Marketing, Principal
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