1. For Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. © 2008 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Title of Presentation Presenter’s Name Presenter’s Title Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.1 Implementation Boot Camp Presenter’s Name Presenter’s Title (title slide)

2. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Course Agenda Day 1 Overview Metadata Building Day 2 Data Loading Rules and Member Lists Day 3 Security Administrator Tasks Day 4 End User Tasks Slide Content Contributed by:

3. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Course Note – Accounting Knowledge While not a hard and fast prerequisite, a level of accounting knowledge is needed for this course and for consultants implementing Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Much of the product and its implementation focuses on accounting more than IT issues This course does not address the installation of the product or the operating system, server setup, and network requirements involved in a typical implementation Slide Content Contributed by:

4. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Course Note – Course Material The designed flow of this course is to present the material via the manual with highlights in this Powerpoint deck and then go to the software for viewing, examination, and exercise These slides highlight key aspects of the manual but do not take the place of the manual The manual is not intended to be comprehensive product documentation: refer to the various PDF documentation The course is also designed with the assumption that an experienced consultant is teaching the course. The exercises are more free form to allow students to approach the topics as they see fit. An experienced consultant will be able to support the students in the various directions they go. The separate teach note document provides information to the instructor on how to proceed through the course; however, the teach notes, like the course, assume that the instructor is an experienced consultant. Software screen shots are included in the materials; however, the student’s learning will progress by direct usage of the software, not through reliance on just the screen shots Slide Content Contributed by:

5. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 1 – Overview Slide Content Contributed by:

6. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Overview – What is HFM Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is a financial consolidation and reporting product Ideal for medium and large corporations – currency translation, intercompany eliminations, ownership calculations are all accommodated IFRS, US GAAP, statutory, and other accounting requirements worldwide can all be met Data comes in, accounting consolidation rules are applied, and final data for reports is available, all within a controlled, secured environment with supporting processes Month, quarter, and year end balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow, and supplemental reports are the typical outputs of an HFM implementation Slide Content Contributed by:

7. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Overview – History Over 25 years of accounting and consolidation expertise in the development of the product Roots go back to Micro-Control, a DOS product developed by IMRS in the early 1980s Second generation product was Hyperion, later renamed to Enterprise when IMRS changed its name to Hyperion. In 2008 there were over 2,500 customers using Hyperion Enterprise and it is currently marketed by Oracle mostly to small and mid size companies HFM was introduced in 2000 as the third generation product and in 2008 had over 1,500 customers Slide Content Contributed by:

8. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Dimensions HFM has 12 dimensions, the combination of which point to a single data amount The basic six dimensions: DimensionDescriptionExample ScenarioType of dataActual AccountAccountNet Income EntityOrganizational UnitTotal Company PeriodQuarter, Month, WeekJune YearYear2009 ViewFrequency of dataYear to Date Slide Content Contributed by:

9. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Dimensions The next five provide account detail Intercompany Partner – specifies the partner entity for intercompany balances Custom1 to Custom4 – dimensions that can be configured by account to store additional detail Customs can be shared across accounts or unique to a single account A custom dimension can be reused for different purposes Examples: product, cost center, state, movement detail Slide Content Contributed by:

10. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Dimensions The last, Value, shows how the data consolidates from child entity to parent entity Journal adjustments are stored in unique Value dimension members Each member to the right has a unique purpose Becoming familiar with this dimension is key to successfully using HFM Slide Content Contributed by:

11. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Overview – HFM Position in EPM Suite Slide Content Contributed by:

12. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 2 – Metadata Slide Content Contributed by:

13. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Metadata Management – EPMA vs. Classic EPMA is a fairly new module (out for a couple of versions) for metadata development and management EPMA provides capabilities for sharing dimensions and members across multiple Hyperion products Newer features, such as Lifecycle Management, are being developed for EPMA Classic is the original metadata development and management method Customers upgrading tend to continue with Classic Partners tend to recommend Classic to customers due to familiarity and high degree of stability Slide Content Contributed by:

14. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Dimensions – Point of View The point of view refers to the combination of the members specified for each of the 12 dimensions Example, a report may have accounts in the rows and years in the columns – the remaining 10 dimensions would make up the point of view The point of view is typically how end users navigate through the dimensions to select what they wish to view, report, analyze, etc. Term and usage is similar to other Hyperion products Slide Content Contributed by:

15. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Metadata Best Practices – Labeling If base level members are reflective of the general ledger, then use the general ledger labels Calculated base level members should be alphanumeric and descriptive of the calculation Parent levels should be alphanumeric and descriptive of the parent Avoid spaces and semicolons Slide Content Contributed by:

16. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Dimensions – Key Design Consideration Generally, no parent member should only have just one child – is a waste of system resources that usually just duplicates the data Most harmful with the account dimension, somewhat with entities, and a little with customs Common error is to create parents now with the expectation that additional children will be added later – best to create the parents when needed Acceptable exceptions exist for the entity dimension for currency reporting and throughout for phased implementations Slide Content Contributed by:

17. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. More Design Considerations In the manual metadata design considerations are included in the Metadata – Classic chapter If covering EPMA and not Classic in the course, refer to the Classic chapter in the manual for this information Slide Content Contributed by:

18. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Metadata Development – Classic There are two components to metadata development Profile – one time setup of Year, Periods, and View dimensions – also lists languages for member descriptions Metadata Manager – initial development and ongoing maintenance of Scenario, Account, Entity (and ICP via derivation), and Custom1-4 dimensions – also lists currencies, consolidation methods, and application settings Both of these components are part of the HFM Windows client software Slide Content Contributed by:

19. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Metadata Management – Classic Profile is created once – once an application created with a profile those dimensions cannot be changed If a change required, create a new profile and a new application Dimensions in metadata management can be changed over and over Metadata management can be done either with the Windows client or a text file - interchangeable There are integrity checks within the software when loading metadata to the application Slide Content Contributed by:

20. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Metadata Management - EPMA EPMA offers metadata management advantages when working with multiple Hyperion applications, whether HFM, Planning, etc. EPMA is web based tool – no Windows client Text file can be used to format metadata and upload Text file cannot be extracted, use separate utility Updates are entered and then deployed to the application An upgrade tool is built in to convert Classic application to EPMA – a one way upgrade! Slide Content Contributed by:

21. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 3 – Data Slide Content Contributed by:

22. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Data Format HFM has a native data load and extract capability and format Data can be loaded as Merge, Replace, Replace by Security or Accumulate – Replace by Security and Merge are the two most common Journal data has a separate format and load/extract process Journal data or data net of journals cannot be extracted via the normal data extract process Slide Content Contributed by:

23. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Data Load Alternatives Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management Hyperion Data Integration Management Oracle Data Integrator Manual Input Hyperion Smart View for Microsoft Office EPMA Data Synchronization (see Chapter 2) HFM API Partner developed tools Slide Content Contributed by:

24. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Data Extract Alternatives HFM Extended Analytics Hyperion Smart View for Microsoft Office HFM Rule Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management Hyperion Data Integration Management Oracle Data Integrator EPMA Data Synchronization (see Chapter 2) HFM API Partner developed tools Slide Content Contributed by:

25. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Copying and Clearing Data Tools within HFM allow for copying and clearing data within the same application Can apply factor when copying, like copy Actual to Budget and apply 10% growth rate Do not work with journal data Slide Content Contributed by:

26. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 4 – Rules Slide Content Contributed by:

27. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Rules Rules are written in VB Script and use most of the same syntax and techniques Rules are organized into parts called subroutines. HFM looks for specific subroutines for specific purposes and others can be used to help organize the calculations. Sub Calculate and Sub Dynamic are two of the “expected” subroutines. Comments may be added by placing an apostrophe in front of the comment. A variable is handy for storing something once and referring to it multiple times. HS.Entity.Member, HS.Exp, and HS.Dynamic are HFM functions. An If/Then statement is the most common way of restricting when a calculation is run. Slide Content Contributed by:

28. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Rules Slide Content Contributed by:

29. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules – Standard Subroutines Calculate – runs whenever calculating an entity. Most rules go here. Translate – used to translate accounts with special rates. Runs when the currency changes from Value dimension members to. Consolidation – used to calculate ownership and eliminations when default behavior is not adequate Allocation – can be used to perform allocations; can also be used for other types of rules – execution is separate from the consolidation process Input – enables data input into parent level entities at value member – not recommended NoInput – disables data input into members. Strict limits on the functions that can be used. Dynamic – used for calculations where the result will vary based on the View dimension, like Gross Margin Percentage Transactions – specifies the accounts to be used in the intercompany transaction Slide Content Contributed by:

30. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules – Dimension Labels Use these dimension labels when referencing a member AAccountIInterco Partner C1Custom1PPeriod C2Custom2SScenario C3Custom3VValue C4Custom4WView EEntityYYear Syntax example: A#NetIncome Slide Content Contributed by:

31. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules - Basics Use variables to store or calculate something and then refer to it later Restrict rules to run only when needed Restriction Techniques If / Then (and variations) Select Case (similar but better handles multiple options with the same consequence) For / Next (processes a list of items, performing designated calculations on each) Rules with custom dimension members are self-restricting – will only run where valid HS.Exp “C1#OpeningBalance=C1#EndingBalance.Y#PRIOR.P#LAST” Slide Content Contributed by:

32. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules – Common Calculations Opening Balance Year to Date Net Income to Retained Earnings Balance the Balance Sheet Dollar Overrides Currency Translation Adjustment Impact Status WriteToFile Cash Flow NoInput OpenDataUnit Slide Content Contributed by:

33. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules - Functions Custom functions can be used to repeat code Idea is to pass variable(s) to the function and the function returns a value, a string, etc. to place into the calling script Functions assist with maintenance – change the function vs. all places that use the same code Slide Content Contributed by:

34. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Rules – Calculation Manager New with version 11.1.1 is Calculation Manager, a graphical interface to rules Use components to build rules Can also integrate VB script components Requires the application to be EPMA enabled – will not work with Classic application As of this release cannot use Select Case and cannot create/use functions Oracle working on a migration tool Slide Content Contributed by:

35. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 5 – Lists Slide Content Contributed by:

36. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Lists – Basics Member lists can be used for a variety of activities Rules, grids, forms, POV navigation/selection System has several lists built in for each dimension that suffice for most needs – begin and end with brackets [ ] Additional lists created in a VB script style text file – can use Rules Editor to work with (rename file extension from lst to rle for most benefit) Load and extract similar to rules Slide Content Contributed by:

37. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 6 – Shared Services Slide Content Contributed by:

38. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Shared Services Shared Services is a separate module that supports the Hyperion EPM suite Key components are: Security, including connecting to a company’s network ID setup and authenticating user IDs and passwords Lifecycle Management – movement of items from one HFM application to another Audit Reports Slide Content Contributed by:

39. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Security Areas of security: Users and Groups – are provisioned (granted) access Roles – tasks or software features that users or groups can do – consolidate, create journal, be an administrator, etc. Classes – a go-between between users or groups and dimension members or web components Most security done within Shared Services Assigning classes to metadata and web components done in metadata management and HFM web For Classic applications, security can be extracted to a text file, modified there, and uploaded Slide Content Contributed by:

40. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Security Design An Excel file recommended for laying out security and sending through company for review/approval Slide Content Contributed by:

41. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Lifecycle Management Can be used with EPMA applications to migrate artifacts from one application to another Artifacts can be web forms, grids, etc. If migrating across environments (not just applications but across whole separate instances of Hyperion), a intermediary file is used Slide Content Contributed by:

42. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 7 – Administrative Stuff Slide Content Contributed by:

43. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Copy Application Utility Use to copy entire Classic applications (no EPMA apps) from one place to another Can copy across environments or within one environment Only access to UDL files required – no prompt for ID and password Copies data from table to table at the relational database level Slide Content Contributed by:

44. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Utilities Used for various analysis by the administrator Base member compare and duplicates below parents are the most commonly used features Also convenient for exporting metadata to Excel file for review by company staff Slide Content Contributed by:

45. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. HFM Administration Menu Contains several items for administrators to review Review system messages for rule errors, application errors Task and Data Audit logs should be exported/archived and cleared periodically Task Automation can be used to automate consolidations and other tasks Slide Content Contributed by:

46. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Process Control Electronic signoff of data Various design considerations: Scenarios Edits Account groupings (phased submissions) Who involved and number of levels of signoff Data access available before or after signoff Slide Content Contributed by:

47. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Data Entry Forms Convenient for input of supplemental data For companies subject to Sarbanes-Oxley: Should not be used for balance sheet or profit and loss input – supplemental input only Changes to balance sheet, profit and loss accounts should be via journals Users should not have ability to create/modify forms Use wizard to walk through creation of forms Forms can be formatted simply or heavily formatted Slide Content Contributed by:

48. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Yahoo! User Group Yahoo! groups exist for HFM and other Hyperion modules Recommended not only to ask questions but also for access to years of archived questions and answers Go to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hsfm for more informationhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hsfm Slide Content Contributed by:

49. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 8 – End User Basics Slide Content Contributed by:

50. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. End User Basics Tasklists can be used to direct users through specific tasks, grids, forms, etc. Depending on security role provisioning a user can be restricted to tasklist navigation only Data grids offer user capabilities to view the data in any possible way End users are encouraged to create grids or find existing grids that meet their needs Point of view usage critical to data grids Grids can be saved with security class or marked private to limit access Slide Content Contributed by:

51. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Journals Journals used for debit/credit style adjustments Are stored in one of four value dimension members – effect on data depends on which member used Security controls whether users are limited to creating journals, approving journals, and/or posting journals Journal listings and detail can be filtered and reported Administrator must open the period before journals are allowed Periods can be closed and reopened as needed Slide Content Contributed by:

52. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 9 – End User Next Steps Slide Content Contributed by:

53. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Intercompany Matching / Elimination Intercompany accounts use the ICP dimension to store the partner entity Intercompany balances are, by default, eliminated at the first common parent Intercompany accounts can be matched against others (like IC receivable vs. IC payable) or can be eliminated one-sided (IC sales eliminating to IC cost of sales [and netting against non-IC cost of sales]) Intercompany entries are made in the [Elimination] value dimension member Slide Content Contributed by:

54. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Intercompany Matching / Elimination Intercompany setup is done in metadata: Which entities can be partners Which accounts are designated intercompany Which account is the plug account for intercompany account(s) The plug account will hold any out of balances among the intercompany accounts If everything matches, the plug account will be zero Reporting is available for all users to analyze and reconcile intercompany balances Slide Content Contributed by:

55. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Process Control Process control is subject to design and controls implemented by the administrator (see chp 7) Validations (edits) must be passed and the data calculated before signoff can occur Once a user signs off on the data, they lose the ability to change – any required change would have to be done by someone at a level above them or the data rejected back to them Signoff follows the entity hierarchy Accounts and customs can be signed off in phases: financials could be the first phase and supplemental data in the second phase Slide Content Contributed by:

56. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 10 – End User Reporting Slide Content Contributed by:

57. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Reporting Financial Reports and Web Analysis views are run from the Hyperion Workspace, the same logged into to access HFM PDF and HTML versions of Financial Reports are available by toggling the buttons on the toolbar Use the point of view to control the information presented Slide Content Contributed by:

58. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Smart View for Microsoft Office Smart View is an addin; mostly used with Excel First step is to establish a connection to the data source – can be HFM, Planning, or BI+ (the workspace) Multiple types of usage: Functions – pull a number into a specific cell Ad Hoc Analysis – move dimensions around, view data Forms – open form, input data, submit Smart tags – use to pull data into Word Can also pull reports into MS Office not just HFM data Slide Content Contributed by:

59. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 11 – Financial Reporting Studio Slide Content Contributed by:

60. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Financial Reporting Studio Studio is the report writer for HFM. Reports can have grids, text boxes, images, and charts Within grids HFM dimensions are placed in rows, columns, and page Dimensions not placed in a grid remain in the user point of view Slide Content Contributed by:

61. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Formatting – Simple and Complex Various formatting options exist, from simple bolding to complex conditional formatting/suppression Some of the features are for HTML view only, such as expansions and related content

62. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Chapter 12 – Workspace Slide Content Contributed by:

63. For use by Oracle employees and authorized partners only. Do not distribute to third parties. Workspace Workspace is the place where users run reports, and it also provides several tools for developers Books allow for one or more reports to be run with multiple points of view to generate a package Batches allow for reports and books to be scheduled and run automatically with the output going to various destinations

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