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How to Extract Data from Oracle Planning Budget Cloud(part three)
In part one and part two of this series I addressed two of the three methods I identified that can be used on PBCS to extract data from the command line and scheduled to run without user interaction....
View ArticleHow Cloud Adoption Could Spur a Rise in Coworking
Coworking is a style of work where an employee shares a working environment with others who are typically not employed by the same organization. This style of work is attractive to independent...
View ArticleMarketing & Sales – What is a Lead?
The definition of a lead isn’t that hard to find. By most standards, it is someone who has raised their hand. They are wanting to consume the information that is being generated by your company. They...
View ArticleDocumentation – an Inherent Part of an HFM Implementation
A Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) application is always tailored to the client’s needs, business environment, and available data. It is almost impossible to lift an existing application and...
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Securing Oracle ADF Application with Oracle EBS Authentication and Authorization
Create ADF Fusion web Application with ADF Security with Login.jspx , Success.jspx, and Error.jspx. Login.jspx will now look like this 2. Next step is to set up Authorization to each page. To setup...
View ArticleOracle Marketing Cloud – Account-Based Marketing
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some great minds over the years. I recently met up with one of those great minds and had a conversation regarding account-based marketing. The buzz is on...
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HFM Security – Specific to Dimension Intersection
Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) data resides at the intersection of all the application dimensions. Consequently, data security should be defined at the dimension intersection. One of our clients...
View ArticleHFM Entity Moves from One Parent to Another
We had a client where, by nature of their business, base entities may move from one parent to another. However, all historical data must stay with their previous parent. Only prospective data will...
View ArticleOracle Eloqua – Data-Driven Marketing
We have all heard how having CRM integrated with Eloqua is a huge step in the overall thought process of data-driven marketing. I wholly agree with that, but what if you could integrate with more than...
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Understanding Intercompany Elimination Report
Intercompany elimination report is a very useful tool in analyzing intercompany balances. Plug Accounts play a major role as they store differences in intercompany balances and they group accounts with...
View ArticleAn ARCS and FCCS Implementation Success Story [Webinar]
Orthofix International, a global medical device company and a legacy Hyperion Financial Management customer, needed to improve its overall close process, providing better tools to employees, and...
View ArticleOracle Eloqua – Subscription Management
You probably have some sort of subscription management today, but is it what you need? Is it giving your clients and prospects the ability to management what they receive? I want to go through a few...
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A Best Practice for Creating Dynamic Column Reports in BICS
If you ever had a requirement or thought of creating an analysis report in BICS to display report columns dynamically, but later had to give it up due to the complexity, you might find this blog post...
View ArticleChallenges in Financial Planning
It’s well known that many organizations invest a tremendous amount of time and energy preparing the annual operating plan. Mature finance organizations have moved beyond the annual plan to more useful...
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Why Oracle DRM is Essential for Managing Master Data (Part 4)
We’ve covered exports and validations so far in this blog series. Our next topic is centered on the ability to create attributes, or properties, in DRM. Some examples of properties include: – Address...
View ArticleDiscover New 11.1.2.4 HFM Functionality
After teaching several HFM 11.1.2.4 Create & Manage Applications courses, I have found several functionality advantages of HFM 11.1.2.4. User Functionality Greatest user improvement comes in Smart...
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How to Monitor Essbase Database Fragmentation
Fragmentation of Essbase block storage databases occurs as a result of routine data changes, data loads, and calculations. Essbase has two database statistics that measure database fragmentation: the...
View ArticleBICS Lift and Shift from OBIEE
Recently I led a comprehensive analysis and POC for lift and shift of on-premises 11g to Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). The lift and shift approach is gaining popularity as it offers a hybrid BI Cloud...
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Using Logical SQL to Extract ERP Cloud Data from OTBI
This approach is officially recommended by Oracle. Data Sync comes with a built-in Oracle BI Content connector, which can be used to extract ERP Cloud data from OTBI. The connector supports three data...
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Using Physical SQL (PVOs) to Extract ERP Cloud Data from OTBI
Physical SQLs are essentially the same as Logical SQLs. Behind the scenes, Logical SQLs are converted back to physical SQLs by BI server using the OTBI Fusion public view objects (PVOs) defined in the...
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