Integration of

Hyperion Application
with Hyperion Hub
Jim Bolger Solutions Consultant

Agenda

Hyperion Hub / Interoperability Overview
Use Cases
Hyperion Planning
Hyperion Financial Management
Essbase
Screenshots
Main Screen
Manage Models
Manage Projects
Questions


Objectives
Recap the Hyperion Hub benefits
Review Hyperion Planning and HFM interoperability
capabilities
Summarize the primary use cases
Takeaways
1. Hub is here
Compelling story for prospects, customers, and
partners
Powerfully supports BPM story & strategy
More is coming. Stay tuned
2. More than just metadata sharing
Metadata and Data
Hub and HAL can complement each other
3. Ease-of-use, and effectiveness in setting up
applications
A Single Platform For Delivering
Business Performance Management
LEGACY MDB DW ERP CRM
HYPERION
APPLICATION
HYPERION
PLATFORM
Scorecarding and Dashboarding
Modeling
Planning,
Budgeting and
Forecasting
Consolidation
and Reporting
Tailored
Applications
Analytics
Performance
Metrics
Query and
Reporting
Enterprise
Reporting
Developer
Tools
Core and Data Integration Services
BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Hyperion Platform Hyperion Hub -
Overview
Hyperion Hub

Supports company
processes
Provides required
interoperability
Integral part of
BPM
Hyperion Hub Benefits
Greater Efficiencies
Quickly move shared dimension structures
Effectively update applications with new or modified
dimensions
Quickly move data between applications
Reduces mechanics of moving shared information between
the applications
Reduces reliance on IT resources
Reduces maintenance and time on managing these multiple
applications
Greater Consistency
Minimize data integrity issues
Administrators benefit by managing multiple versions of
dimensions centrally

The Infrastructure to Deliver Next Generation
Business Performance Management
Functionalities to enable
these tasks:
Metadata sharing
Data sharing
Storage and versioning
of business objects
Approach
Hyperion Hub
functionalities available
from within applications
Links on application
Web for seamless
experience


Run/Schedule
Store
Define Integrations
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Int. Definition
Hyperion Hub
Use Cases

Sharing Metadata and Data between Hyperion Planning and HFM
Initial Sourcing of applications (metadata)
Ongoing metadata management among these applications
Primary metadata source is either a HP or HFM application, or other
repository
HP / HFM Interoperability:
Alignment of Processes
Hyperion Hub
Actual Data / Metadata
Planning HFM
Plan & Forecast Data
HP Plan / Forecast
data updates are
used to support
reporting and analysis
within HFM
HFM Actual data &
metadata updates are
used to facilitate the
plan / forecast
process within HP
HP / HFM Interoperability
Customer Requirements
Improved data integrity
Sharing dimensions between applications
Centrally manage shared dimensions
Reduce maintenance issues
Single point of maintenance
Reduce dimension and data reconciliation
Ongoing metadata updates (new products, accounts,
acquisitions)
Development of new applications
Enhanced analysis
Reduced cycle times (forecasts, etc.)
HP / HFM Interoperability
Hub Value-Add
Supports sharing, synching of metadata
Versioning / compliance
Effective data integrations (based on shared
dimensions)
Ease of use
Interoperability among multiple Hyperion applications
Hyperion Essbase used as central data or metadata source
Hyperion Essbase used for reporting/analysis or other business
model



Multiple Hyperion Applications
Hyperion Hub
Planning HFM
Essbase
Essbase used for:
reporting/analysis, or
other business model
centralized dimension
management
BPM positioning
Interoperability between Single Product applications
Different environments: development, test & production
Initial Sourcing or ongoing changes (metadata & data)
Make change in one application, quickly update all applications
Metadata source is either an application or the Hyperion Hub
Lifecycle / Application Management
Hyperion Hub
Development Test
Production
Lifecycle Management - High
customer requirement
Positions well with the IT
group during a sales cycle
HP Application <=> HP Application
Hyperion Hub
Bus Unit 1 Bus Unit 2
Metadata & Data
Updates
Interoperabily among multiple Hyperion Planning applications
Multiple applications: different business units or functional applications
Data & metadata updates across these applications
Corporate
Application
Large HP Application
Central management of
accounts, or other dimensions
Versioning of dimensions
Reduce maintenance effort
Hyperion Hub Screenshots
Main Screen
Manage Models
Manage Projects



Main Screen
Manage Models
Manage Projects
Hyperion Hub What are we working
towards?
Metadata and Data Integration
Extend metadata sharing to all Hyperion products
Complete Lifecycle Management and Auditing
User Provisioning
Provide a mechanism to manage users, groups and roles across all the
products
Alerts and workflows
Provide system wide Workflow service to automate standard management
and maintenance tasks
System wide alerting service for users to be notified of changes in the data
sources like Essbase, Financial Management, Planning or Relational
systems
Unified Management and Monitoring of applications
Provide mechanism to monitor and manage all applications from a single
dashboard
Questions
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