Integrating with Hyperion Apps Should Be Easier. It is With FDMEE

Oracle Hyperion EPM folk know that Financial Data Quality Management Classic (FDM Classic) is the ideal data transformation tool for getting your data into Oracle Hyperion applications.  But it takes some effort to get things up and running.  In particular, installing and configuring FDM adapters (FDM Classic software modules for communicating with target Hyperion apps) can be a chore. Well, Hyperion target application setup is different with FDM Enterprise Edition (FDMEE).  FDMEE makes things a lot easier. FDM Classic Setup Here’s a rundown of how things typically go in the FDM Classic world. Your infrastructure resource installs the FDM Classic software.  Now, you’re ready to create a FDM Classic application.  You can do this via the FDM Classic web console.  After you create a new application, you need to configure FDM to communicate with your Hyperion target applications.  For this, you use the Workbench Win32 desktop client.  Most likely, you’re using Workbench on the FDM application server.  Using Workbench, you perform Steps 1 through 4.  You execute Steps 5 and 6 on the web. Register the adapter file (e.g. fdmFM11XG6C.dll) , Import the corresponding metadata interface file (e.g. FM11X-G6-C.xml) , Configure COM settings for the adapter, Add a machine profile, Specify the application name in Integration Settings, and Validate that FDM Classic is communicating with the target app FDMEE Setup FDMEE is fully integrated in Oracle EPM Workspace; it’s not a stand-alone application like FDM Classic.  There are some real benefits to this.  For starters, out of the box, FDMEE is ready to talk to Oracle Hyperion applications registered in Workspace.  In FDMEE you will simply do the following. Go...

What Is EPM, Anyway?

Every so often when I’m at tee-ball game or a recital for one of my kids, a fellow parent asks me what I do for living.  When this happens I take a deep breath.  This seldom turns out right.  My response regresses into a string of acronyms and tech jargon.  After rambling for about a minute, the person usually stares back at me with eyes glazed over and  mutters something like, “Uh, that’s neat.” In this age of social media and sound bites, people want a headline. So, what do I do for a living? If I had only one-hundred and forty characters to get my message out, a la Twitter, it would go something like this: I help companies set up systems to monitor and report on how the company is performing so people can more effectively run the business. The key objective: Turn insights into action. Yeah, I could talk about key metrics, business intelligence, profitable execution… blah, blah, blah.  But really, it’s rather simple.  I work with organizations to engineer systems and processes to collect, report, and analyze information so that the company can find ways to be more profitable.  EPM asks three fundamental questions: Where are we as an organization? How did we get what we got? What’s next? That’s Enterprise Performance Management.  EPM. Want to know more?  Contact...