What's New in Hyperion 11.1.2?

Planning Now that 11.1.2 has been rolled out and put to use, its time to do a little reflection on the new features that have been added in this release. While there were a lot of improvements in this version, the major changes seemed to focus on three areas: Managing planning units, web forms, and Smart View functionality. Managing Planning Units

One of the biggest changes in this release is the increased flexibility in managing planning units. Multiple planning units can now be promoted at the same time, and they can be promoted based on entity and secondary dimensions. There is also an out-ofoffice wizard that allows the automatic delegation, promotion, or rejection of units while the reviewer is unavailable. Validation rules have also been added to redirect the units approval path based on set criteria, or to prevent the units promotion based on data validation. New budgeting modes are now available that allow the system to determine owners based on validation rules and the planning unit hierarchy.

Bottom-Up Budgeting - Users input data at the lowest level. It follows the approval process up to the top budgeting group owner who then uses the approved data to create a final, consolidated budget Distributed Budgeting - The key difference between the two budgeting forms is that in distributed budgeting, ownership begins at the top and is pushed down to the bottom of the hierarchy. Data is then entered and follows the same approval process. If these budgeting modes dont work for you, the free-form mode is still available. Web Forms The next significant change involves web forms. Web forms now have drag and drop functionality. They also allow ad-hoc changes including member selection, zooming in and out, keep and remove only, sorting of columns and rows, and formula columns and rows. These changes can be saved so the newly created form can be used again later. These options vary based on user access. Smart View With the release of 11.1.2 comes full planning functionality in MS Office using Smart View. The planning job console can be accessed in Excel, versions can be copied, and

data forms can be sliced and saved to create reports. Tasks can even be automatically added to Outlooks task list for improved tracking. Users no longer are required to use the web-based version of Planning, which will allow them to use tools that they are already comfortable with.

The new release of Planning has added a great deal of functionality and usability which should increase user acceptance and allow end users to do more than ever before.