HFM Tips and Tricks

Christine Allegretti
Intellient
 Agenda

• Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Rounding
• API Custom Development
• Automated Consolidation Journals
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
 What is available

• Technology Preview 1
–Metalink Patch Number 7388231
–Supports Financial Management, Financial
Reporting, Performance Management Architect
–Information about managing web applications using
out-of-the-box features of Grid Control
–On top of metrics & reports provided out-of-the-
box by Grid Control, there are
• 27 additional metrics
• 18 reports
Financial Management Reporting Pack
Features
• Monitoring
– Created product specific metrics
• Analysis
– Added product specific canned reports and graphs
combining real time and historic metrics
• Managing Complexity
– Reports may be run across multiple servers
– Documentation describes setting up OEM topology and
groups
 FM Reporting Pack Product Coverage
Coverage across the entire FM System 9 suite
• Hyperion Financial • Hyperion Shared Services
Management – Web Server
– Web Server – Application Server
– Application Server • SmartView
• Enterprise Performance • Financial Data Quality Manager
Manager • Databases
– Web Server
– Oracle
– Dimension Server
– DB2
– Data Sync Server
– Microsoft SQL
• Hyperion Reports • Web Servers
– Reports Server
– Tomcat
– Schedule Server
– WebSphere
– WebLogic
EPM System Home Page
Dashboard
Component Home Page

SLR – set via link in

related links – Edit
Service Level Rule
Setting Thresholds

Setting Thresholds –
via metric and policy
settings in related
links
Status History
System Topology
Financial Management Reports
Financial Reporting Reports
Performance Management
Architect Reports
Rounding
 Issue
• Scaled financial statements can have rounding issues

• Total Company (no-scale) 47,500

• Comp A 15,000
• Comp B 10,200
• Comp C 22,300

• Total Company (scaled) 48

• Comp A 15
• Comp B 10
• Comp C 22
 Available Solutions?

• Plug value in hierarchy

• External reporting in Excel
• Careful review of numbers

• Custom Rules Solution

 Custom Rules Solution

• Uses Custom Dimension to view Scaled data

• Compare Scaled data to base and determine

rounding adj

• Navigates account hierarchy top-down to make

appropriate adjustment
– Adjusts largest account for smallest impact
– Accounts can be excluded from adjustment
 Define Constants
Const ROUNDING_FACTOR = "RoundingFactor" '1000
Const TOP_ACCOUNT = "NetProfit" '"300000"
Const SOURCE_C1 = "AllCustom1" '"Total"
Const SOURCE_C2 = "AllCustom2" '"Nature"
Const SOURCE_C3 = "[None]“
Const SOURCE_C4 = "ClosingBalance" '"[None]“
Const DEST_C1 = "[None]"
Const DEST_C2 = "[None]"'
Const DEST_C3 = "[None]"
Const DEST_C4_BASE = "Round_Base" '"RoundedOriginal"
Const DEST_C4_UP = "Round_BaseUp" '"Not Used"
Const DEST_C4_DOWN = "Round_TopDown“ ‘"RoundedAdjustment"
Const DEST_C4_TOTAL = "RoundedTotal“‘"RoundedTotal"
Add 2 new accounts
Update Custom Dimension
Exclude Account from Adjustment
 Rounding Steps in Rule file

• Clear ROUNDED members regardless of running

rounding
• Copy base data and apply rounding factor
• Start from the top of the account hierarchy and check
the derived rounded totals against scaled original totals
– Where there is a difference... create the adjustment at largest
child account
• Quit when derived rounded values = scaled original
 Caveats
• Has been implemented on test applications
only
• Requires strong “rule” skills
• Processes one entity at a time
• Must have open custom dimension
• Adjustments are hardcoded to certain
custom members
API Custom Development
Copy Journals
 Copy Journals
• Why
– Many Reasons for Copying Journals
• Audit Trail
• No Manual Intervention
• Process Time

• ASP Page Customization

– OPJournals.asp
• Used to set the parameters for what journals are copied
• Dynamic
– OPJournalsvbs.asp
• Used for the actual copying of the journals
 OPJournals.asp
• Modify OPJournals.asp to your specific criteria
– Any Mapping (e.g. – Closing > Opening)
• Can use System member attributes(User Defined, etc)
• Specific mapping
– Periods
– Value Members
 Create a Link
• Set up a Link
• Create a Link to the OPJournals.asp page
– http://demodrive/hfm/data/opjournals.asp
 Copying Journals
• Ensure Journals to be copied exist in last
period of year.
 Copying Journals
• Ensure that the resulting journals do not exist in
destination period.

• Open Journal Period for destination period

• Launch Copy Link
 Copying Journals
• Set destination POV

• Select Go
 Copying Journals
• Should receive the following successful
confirmation message
 Copying Journals
• Check Destination POV for Journal
–Scenario “Consolidat1”
–Year “2009”
–Period “M01”
 Copying Journals
• Copied Journal
–Posted
–Has New Accounts
–New Lines
 Copying Journals
• Source Journal

• Destination Journal
 Copying Journals
• Error Messages
–Period is Not Opened
• Ensure that Destination Period is Open
 Copying Journals
• Error Messages
–Source Period Does Not Have Any Journals
• Ensure that the Destination POV is Right
• Ensure that Journals Exist in Source POV
 Copying Journals
• Error Messages
–Source POV Does Not Exist
• Trying to Copy to the First Year
Link From Financial Reports
Using API
Automated Consolidation Journals
Automated Consolidation Journals
• Pre-Zola – data available through source/destination
transactions
• Zola
– Data populated in journals module via executing
consolidations
– Only populated through HS.CON with Nature
– Journals viewable, reportable and extractable
– Journals cannot be un-posted
– Journals cannot be modified and reloaded
– Journals cannot be edited
Automated Consolidation Journals - Details
• Created through consolidation rules with Nature
– HS.Con “POV”, Factor, “Nature”
Automated Consolidation Journals - Details
• Populated in [Elimination] and [Proportion] Value
members
• Journal labels are: Parent_Entity_Nature
– Parent and Entity are Current Entity and it’s Parent that
is being consolidated
– In the journal file the entity will be the Destination
Entity
• Usually the same as Current entity
– Each line description will include the source POV and
the calculation
Journal Listing
Journal Details
Journal Adjustment Selections
Thank You