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With significant investments in your Oracle ERP system--be it Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle's PeopleSoft or JD Edwards applications--you want to maximize the return. Attend this session to get an overview of Oracle's Hyperion Performance Management applications, the industry's leading suite of analytic applications that drive management excellence. Learn how these products can integrate with transactional systems to leverage your investments and help your company deliver predictable results, improve transparency, and increase business alignment. Listen and learn directly from our customers – Aarmark, Experian and General Dynamics!

Learn how to take XBRL reporting in-house with Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management. With Disclosure Management, companies can take full control of external reporting timelines and decision-making while minimizing cost and overhead. As a component of the unified Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management stack, Disclosure Management allows filers to produce 100 percent valid XBRL filings that are directly connected to EPM data sources.

Ervin Peter, Deloitte

The purpose of this session is to demonstrate a Costing and Profitability solution developed using Oracle EPM/Hyperion tools for a global process manufacturing company. Essbase BSO cubes are used to calculate actual cost of millions of lots or batches produced at every process step based on real ingredients and overhead costs. Essbase ASO cubes are used to report and analyze cost and profit by order, by customer, by product, and by market segment. Hyperion Planning Application is used for doing what-if cost modeling for future scenarios.

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Learn simple tricks to enhance reporting to make it easier to understand, and provide the actionable insight so users can spend time managing rather than reporting. Gain insight into how people interpret visual data, what memory limits are, how we make sense of objects, and how this new understanding should be used to deliver actionable insight to your dashboard and reporting users. Discover the limits of human perception and how to encode data for better perception, and learn how to use these to your advantage in creating reports and dashboards that speak clearly to users.

The goal of this session is to provide attendees with key considerations in managing an EPM project successfully from the client's perspective. The session will cover best practices, selecting and managing a consulting partner, pitfalls to avoid, and other key tasks in an EPM project.

Companies have always struggled to calculate the ROI of their BI investments. In most cases, BI adopters are realizing "soft" ROI (faster and more accurate reporting, improvements in the decision-making process, increased productivity, etc.), but concrete ROI (cost reductions, higher revenues) remains difficult to quantify. This presentation is a blueprint for calculating the ROI for your business intelligence project with simple-to-use Excel-based templates. Participants will be taken step-by-step through the tough questions to ask during the analysis. Case studies from several organizations will be presented, and common BI ROI justifications like "better reporting" will be dissected from a true business value perspective.

This panel of functional and infrastructure experts will answers your questions about whether you should take the plunge and upgrade your EPM system.

Objectives of this session include: Share best practice process for training end users in a global Hyperion Planning deployment; Explore the role that Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) has on training strategy; and Lessons learned from the Global training implementation.

This session discusses lessons learned implementing Hyperion Planning at a large, public institution in a time of transformational change to the financial people, process, and infrastructure.

So you've bought this great new technology called Hyperion Planning and Essbase, but before you begin, what about the budgeting and forecasting process you're about to implement? This presentation will step away from the technology and discuss best practices in developing your budgeting and forecasting process. The session will begin with a brief history of budgeting, but will quickly progress to current trends like driver-based budgeting and rolling forecasts. The session will even cover best practices in emerging planning processes like range-based budgeting and "beyond budgeting." Whatever your process is, you'll come out of this session knowing more about what your process should be.

This presentation will be guiding the audience through the enterprising planning suite of products while addressing these types of questions through real company examples and best practices. By highlighting the true power of Oracle’s Hyperion Strategic Finance, Hyperion Planning, and the reporting suite (including Financial Reports, Smartview and OBIEE) the audience will see how each application can be leverage to maximize the ROI. This LIVE, INTEGRATED demonstration, will show examples of how organizations can seamlessly seed operational budgets with strategic targets, regularly update long-range plans with the latest forecasts, and consume ALL information at ALL times using one integrated reporting platform. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of Oracle’s full enterprise planning offering and a perspective on how to best leverage the power of each solution by truly using the “right tool…for the right job!”

General Dynamics is a $32B decentralized business unit operating with a high degree of autonomy. General Dynamics understood that collaboration around Business Intelligence and Performance Management is critical to success. In the beginning of 2009, the company started on a journey working across fourteen business units to focus on the extraordinary benefits of creating a collaborative environment. The objective was to drive down the total cost and the time to value, while simultaneously driving up the quality of the solutions. The creation of a Business Intelligence Collaborative has exceeded expectations and now includes multiple business units across General Dynamics.

Shankar Viswanathan, Oracle Corporation

Beyond Budgeting Approach to Financial Planning using Hyperion Planning Preparation and planning within an organization are critical to a successful transition from traditional annual operating plan based budgeting and planning process to a rolling forecast based planning process. The capabilities within Hyperion Planning make deployment of rolling forecast based planning process easier. This session will review key questions to ask, decisions and criteria to consider, best practices for process review and change, and key ideas to making rolling forecasts work. We also will look at details like simplicity through drivers, rolling forecast reports, and lastly, how rolling forecast process ties to long-range planning.

Learn how Fortune 500 company, Group 1 Automotive, leveraged the Oracle Hyperion suite of products--Hyperion Financial Management, Planning, and Disclosure Management--for a uniform, consolidated way to look at dealership performance, and a more efficient, automated way to conduct reporting processes without relying on manual labor to generate reports. This session will review the design and implementation of a dynamic reporting system that distributes data in a consistent, timely fashion, making the budgeting and forecasting process less people-dependent while providing system controls and maintenance efficiencies within the process. Session details will also include best practices for implementing reporting systems.

Join E*TRADE Financial as they discuss the implementation of two new Essbase applications designed to support Capital Markets Finance and Technology Finance. E*TRADE Financial implemented Hyperion Planning and Essbase for P&L planning and forecasting almost ten years ago, but only recently began to leverage Essbase for expanded purposes. Learn how the Capital Markets and Technology Finance teams leveraged Oracle, ODI, and Essbase to implement automated processes and new cubes to replace time intensive and manual processes for various reporting and forecasting needs. This session will provide an overview of the process changes, application design considerations, and lessons learned from the projects.

Hyperion Planning's Enterprise Project Planning Application comes with the inherent capabilities for task-based proposal and rank-based and KPI-based approval of project plans. Project funding decisions are closely tied to the long-range plans of the organization. Project forecasts give an early indication of revisions needed to a project which in turn can influence changes in the organization's long-range plans. The application allows for an integrated closed loop process during the various phases of a project's life cycle in an organization.