Beyond Oracle EPM metadata synchronization

Beyond Oracle EPM Metadata Synchronization

Conrad ChuangOrchestra Networks

Andrew HelwigUnited Technologies Corporation

Overview: Challenges and options for managing Oracle EPM Metadata

Case Study: How we are using EPM metadata to support our entire shared services Organization

Q&A

Today’s presentation

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What are we doing at an ODTUG meeting?

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Customers use our solution to manage their enterprise performance management and corporate finance master/reference data.

Pre-built data models for Oracle® Hyperion EPM

Export dimensions and update to files, staging tables or services

Import dimensions from files, staging tables or

services

End users & EPM administrators maintain

metadata/hierarchies using a browser-based user interface

with built-in workflowImport master data from any system of record

EBX5 for Oracle® Hyperion EPM

Metadata our customers manage

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Identifiers

Attributes

Hierarchies & Alt Hierarchies

Identifiers, attributes and dimensions for account, entities…

Standard and Alternate Hierarchies

Problems our customers are addressing…

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Managing a single instance and sync

between other instances

Maintaining past, present, future and what-

if versions?

What-if?

Sharing between different applications

(EPM and non-EPM)?

Manager for Financial Systems in the UTC Center of Excellence.

Principally accountable for the Hyperion Center of Excellence.

Hyperion COE manages all HFM applications in use across UTC globally.

15+ years of experience in Oracle EPM suite

Experience: United Technologies Corporation, Hyperion Solutions (now Oracle).

About Andrew Helwig

How we are using EPM metadata to support our entire shared services Organization

Andrew Helwig,

United Technologies

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About the United Technologies Corporation

(As of Dec 2014)211,500 Employees

$65.1B Net Sales

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UTC Corporate Center of Excellence

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Today we manage 26 production instances of Hyperion Financial Management

Production●(7) Hyperion Financial Management App Servers●(6) WebLogic Servers (SS, SV, WS)●(2) SQL Servers●(26) Production Applications●(1) EBX5 MDM●(4,000) Users

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Metadata Mgmt

Metadata Mgmt

Hyperion ImplementationsHyperion Implementations

EBX5 manages metadata update process

SikorskySikorsky

Climate, Controls, SecurityClimate, Controls, Security

UTC Aerospace SystemsUTC Aerospace Systems

OtisOtis

Pratt & WhitneyPratt & Whitney

UTC CorporateUTC Corporate

Business Units (BU)

Cha

nges

& U

pdat

es

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Current new entities business process for HFM

Field request for new

entity(ies)

Field request for new

entity(ies)

New Legal Entity?

New Legal Entity?

BU Controllers provide:•GEMS ID & Inherit Country

BU Controllers provide:•GEMS ID & Inherit Country

BU Tax Review & Approval

BU Tax Review & Approval

NO

Tag to existing LE parent in

LE Hierarchy (or NEW if unknown)

Tag to existing LE parent in

LE Hierarchy (or NEW if unknown)

YES

WHQ Approve

New Entity

WHQ Approve

New Entity

YES

Include new Rainbow fileInclude new Rainbow file

Rainbow FileRainbow File

New entities

added to EBX5

HFM and Tax

Instances

New entities

added to EBX5

HFM and Tax

Instances

Upload to HFM

Upload to HFM

New version required

?

New version required

?

Snapshot old and create new

version (dataspace)

Snapshot old and create new

version (dataspace)

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CoE Issue: How does the CoE manage metadata across our applications?

Financial Reporting Tax Technology Business Controls

• Consolidation (Hyperion Financial Management)

• Budgeting/Planning (Hyperion Planning)

• Analysis (Oracle Essbase)

• Year End Reporting for leases – eCollect

• Data Integration = FDM (GL to Consolidation)

… and more!

• Tax Filing (CorpTax)

• Tax Provision (LongView)

• Legal Entity Hierarchy (GEMS)

… and more!

• Account Reconciliation (ARMS)

• Sarbanes Oxley Compliance (eSOX)

• Export Controls (CCRS)

… and more!

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“Tech” Issue: Multiple overlapping instances of Entity across the applications/functions

1,400+ ARMS Entities

1,500+ Tax

Entities700+ SOX

Entities

1,300+Legal

Entities

10,000+ HFM

Entities

3,00+CCRSEntities

4,000+Longview

Tax Entities

Need alignment between entities•Get everyone on the same page

•Build data extracts from HFM to support other applications

•Cut down on inter-application reconciliation

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Complication (Illustrative): Each application’s entities don’t really represent the same “entity”

HFM

eSOX

CorpTax

Entity is shared with HFM, but has additional attributes

Entity is exclusive to application... but associated with existing HFM Entities:•“Children,” or•“Rollups”

1:1 correspondence between HFM entities

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Conceptual Example: HFM vs. Business controls

HFM Entity

Netherlands(Consolidated financials)

HFM Entity

Netherlands(Consolidated financials)

eSox – Entity 1

Factory #1

eSox – Entity 1

Factory #1

eSox – Entity 2

Factory #2

eSox – Entity 2

Factory #2

eSox – Entity 3

Factory #3

eSox – Entity 3

Factory #3

For financial reporting purposes the financials for all three factories in the Netherlands are consolidated.

For controls reporting we need to maintain three entities per factory.

But, we want to avoid creating dummy entities in HFM.

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Business controls needs to maintain consistency with (or synchronize) with HFM hierarchies and members

Allow business controls specific over-rides of dimension attributes and hierarchy changes

Allow business controls specific extensions to HFM

Solution requirements for business controls

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We used EBX functionality to create “inherited hierarchies” By default all updates to HFM are always accepted in

eSox … … Except when controls create child-only overrides:

● Create/Update/Delete members● Create/Update/Delete hierarchy relationships

How did we address the challenge?

HFM Parent (Dimensions, Hierarchies)

Child – eSox Dimensions + Hierarchies

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• Control at HFM-level• Maintains synchronization

with controls (other apps)• Filter

New Process File Compare

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(Right) are extracts from both the Oracle EPM HFM-only and Business Controls (SOX view).

The highlighted rows show SOX-only entities that are supported by the EBX process

HFM-Only Business Controls

Controls attributes are managed via associated extensions in EBX5

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Managing the SOX extensions separately allows Controls group to manage the SOX only attributes using their own time cycles. We also don’t end up inadvertently sending these attributes to HFM.

Associations with HFM

Controls specific attributes

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Result: Child Business Controls hierarchies that inherit (and sync) with HFM hierarchies

HFMHFM ControlsControls

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Child/Inherited hierarchies helps us adjust to different cycle times

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HFM Team

Controls Team

The HFM team releases a new version every month. The controls team releases a new version every quarter. Inherited hierarchies allows the HFM team and the controls team to maintain independence from one another but keep in sync.

Future state: Management of all entities and entity extensions in EBX

GEMS

CorpTax

Longview

eSOX

ARMS

CCRS

HFM Request

HFM

ESS

BAR

Essbase/Planning

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Re-using dimensions and attributes eliminates synchronization and (a lot) of reconciliation issues

However enterprise-reuse requires adopting inheritance, alternate hierarchy management techniques and workflow

Version management and workflow is important when coordinating between groups that do not have the same cycle time.

Concluding thoughts & lessons learned

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Questions and Thank You

Conrad ChuangOrchestra Networks

[email protected]

Andrew HelwigUnited Technologies Corporation

[email protected]

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