Evolve With Hyperion: August 2020

At Oracle Open World 2019, Al Marciante presented on the latest information related to the EPM On-Premises Applications Update. Much awaited Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) V11.2 is available from Dec 2019.

Since then, Oracle is announcing a “Continuous Innovation” release model for Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System 11.2, delivering ongoing applications and underlying technology stack updates without a major upgrade.

All EPM 11.2 for Windows download packages are available for download on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

Before diving into installation and configuration, we should understand installers of V11.2 well and here is an attempt.

Installers overview

We will be going through those components which are required to be unzipped to install and configure HFM and Planning/Essbase system either on single server or in distributed environment. Rest of the installers will be documented later.

1) V998755-01 - Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Client Installers

This zip file contains following clients. As a result, we will end up in downloading the entire file even if we are interested in single client. It is similar to V11.1.2.4 client installers zip. The only difference is number of clients are reduced as most of components are discontinued in V11.2.2.

Planning (Planning SV Extension)
EAS Console
Essbase Client
CloseMgrSupplementalData SmartView extension
TaxOpsTaxSupplemental SmartView Extension

Following clients from V11.1.2.4 are not present in V11.2.2.

Disclosure Management
EPMA client
Essbase Studio
HFM Client
FR studio
Oracle Interactive reporting client
Production reporting remote client
Predictive planning
Smart View
Strategic Finance Client

This is different than V11.1.2.1 which was having separate installer for clients. (e.g. Essbase client was involved with Essbase installer)

The combined zip for clients is started from v11.1.2.2. But IR and PR clients were in separate zip in V11.1.2.2.

This installer zip is present in both HFM plus and Planning Plus.

2) V998784-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Installation Documents and Readmes

As name specifies, it contains all documentation part for Hyperion EPM V11.2.2.

It is present in both Planning Plus and HFM Plus suites

3) V933015-01, V933018-01_1of2, V933018-01_2of2

This set of 3 installers zip files contain FMW – Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.3.0) is the latest release of the Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1) software

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a comprehensive family of products ranging from application development tools and integration solutions to identity management, collaboration, and business intelligence reporting.

This has replaced Oracle Identity management in V11.2.4 - V37387-01

In v11.1.2.4, FMW 11g was present – 11.1.1.7.0 OIM – Oracle Identity Manager - Provides provisioning, reconciliation, request-based provisioning, self-service, and integration with heterogenous identity systems through connectors (LDAP, operating systems, mainframe/midrange, ERP packages, email/collaboration suites, databases, etc.)..

4) V998756-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Oracle HTTP Server

This file contains separate Oracle HTTP server. We can skip this component if we are planning to use weblogic server as web server. Weblogic server comes along with our Foundation services.

Ø OHS

5) V998761-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 1

This is similar to the EPM System Installer and it contains

Installer (InstallTool.cmd)
Common products
Product common components
Essbase common components
Opmn

6) V998765-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 2

This zip file contains:

Static Contents
Shared Services
Oracle Common Home
Tools – HSS Migration Utility

7) V998766-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 3

This file contains

DB client – 32 bit and 64 bit
Calc Manager
BIplus core services
BIplus financial reporting
BPM Architect

8) V998769-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 4

All the applications are bundled in this file. In this upgrade case, We are interested only in HFM as those are used in our application, but we will still need to download Planning, strategic finance and all listed components. It then shows all these components while installation. Don’t get confused with unwanted components and ignore them while installation.