Sunday, May 16, 2021

Let's understand EPM Cloud - bundle and pricing

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

This definitely makes sense for the new improved EPM cloud with lower cost.

When we checked about different EPM cloud components provided by Oracle in last blog:Check here 

It’s time to understand changes made by Oracle to EPM cloud, clarification about pricing.

Till now, we were using a single, value priced solution $125 per use per month.

E.g. clients were using either FCCS, ARCS, PBCS as per the requirement with this rate. So if a client required FCCS, ARCS and PBCS à It would cost $375 per user per month.

Oracle EPM cloud matured in these 5 years and so is licensing, security etc.

There is no more separate “Cloud Service” Naming. The new bundle and pricing model aims to provide more value and integration between business processes.

The new product names:

·       PBCS & EBCS à Planning (Note: Oracle no longer distinguishes between regular and enterprise

·       FCCS >> Financial Consolidation and Close

·       ARCS >> Account Reconciliation

·       EPRCS >> Narrative Reporting

·       PCMCS >> Profitability and Cost Management

·       TRCS >> Tax Reporting

·       EDMCS >> Enterprise Data Management

These products are not sold separately.

There are two kinds of licenses provided by Oracle for EPM cloud.

1)      Standard EPM Cloud

Standard EPM Cloud license consists of two instances à (1) Production instance and (2) Development/Test instance.

 One standard EPM cloud license costs around $250/£198 per user per month.

 A single unique user across all included business process options.

 Minimum Users = 10

 Additional POD will cost additional $250 per user per month.

 Standard Edition includes following cloud services based on busines process.

 ·       Module-based Planning

§  Capital, Financials, Projects, Workforce (2x) and Strategic Modelling (6 cubes total)2 custom cubes (1 hybrid BSO and 1 ASO cube)

 ·       Narrative Reporting

This includes the two most popular tools Narrative Reporting and Management Reporting

·       Financial Consolidation & Close

This includes Supplemental Data Management, Financial Consolidation, Close Management

·       Account Reconciliation

This includes Reconciliation Compliance 

2)      Enterprise EPM Cloud

Enterprise EPM Cloud license consists of two instances  (1) Production instance and (2) Development/Test instance.

One standard EPM cloud license costs around $500/£396 per user per month.

A single unique user across all included business process options.

Minimum Users = 25

Additional POD will NOT cost additional fees.

Standard Edition includes following cloud services based on busines process.

·       Planning

§  Module-based (same as standard)

§  Custom (6 custom cubes + 6 ASO cubes)

§  A framework similar to EPBCS (3 custom cubes, 4 ASO cubes and Workforce ASO cube)

§  Free Form

·       Narrative

§  Includes Disclosure Management

·       Financial Consolidation & Close

§  Includes all features and support for Complex and Custom Calculations

·        Account Reconciliation

      ·        Enterprise edition includes additional            modules

             §  Profitability & Cost Management

             §  Tax Reporting

             §  Enterprise Data Management (up to 5,000 hosted records)


Sunday, May 9, 2021

Organizational Pyramid and EPM

 When a new joiner in IT,  in team asked about basic queries related to EPM, I thought it is good time to pen down  basic facts about EPM in any Organization's pyramid on this weekend. 
Where is EPM used in any organization?
What is the purpose of EPM?
Why it is referred as important finance technology? (Why do people get paid more considering it as niche skill? )

Yes, I used to always think of these queries and finally after some learning and experience , got a fair idea about EPM in any organization.

Let’s think about pyramid of any organization, whether it is IT, manufacturing, automobile, financial or any other domain.

Every organization has this pyramid
 

  • 1)      Bottom Most Layer contains front end executives. These include day to day business operations. So these are nothing but operating activities of organization.
  • 2)      Middle layer consists of integrations of various business activities, hence integration tools like CRM, SCP are included in this layer.
  • 3)      Topmost layer is layer of top level executives who are strategic decision makers for organization. This layer include CFO, his/her core team who are responsible for executive decision making, executive learning, executive MBA. This layer executives are responsible for EPM – Enterprise Performance Management.
 Now let us move to EPM layer
 
  •      Financial Planning and Analysis Team

  • Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is a set of four activities that support an organization's financial health:
  • 1) planning and budgeting,
  • 2) integrated financial planning, 
  • 3) management and performance reporting,
  • 4) forecasting and modeling. 
  • FP&A solutions enhance the finance department's ability to manage performance by linking corporate strategy to execution. 

  •      EPM Consultants include both technical and functional consultants - We belong here. 
  • From technical perspective, an EPM system such as Oracle EPM is an enterprise software that provides a platform (framework, product, tool…) specified for EPM purpose. Implementation consulting firm will base on that platform to configure, develop specific system that suits with specific company/enterprise/organization.

For implementing EPM, there are many vendors and leading one is Oracle EPM contributing to 30% of EPM market.

 Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Service provides end-to-end business processes to meet the requirements of most organizations and ensure a connected and agile experience across multiple business processes.

  1.       Connected Planning      
  2.       Financial Close

3)      Narrative Reporting 

4)      Enterprise Data Management








Thursday, April 22, 2021

Next Generation Reporting in Oracle EPM - 3 Things you should know

Oracle introduced major enhancements to its EPM reporting capabilities with the February 2021 update. These enhancements will undoubtedly provide Oracle EPM customers the opportunity to expand their current reporting abilities to meet the challenges facing organizations today. 

Continue reading below as we touch on three things every customer must know about the new functionality now available.

The Introduction of FR’s (Financial Reporting) Replacement: Embedded Reports

Per Oracle’s readiness release: “Management Reporting within Oracle’s Narrative Reporting offering has been available for the past few years. It is now embedded in the EPM Cloud Platform applications (Planning, Financial Consolidation and Close, Tax Reporting, and Free Form) alongside, and eventually replacing, Financial Reporting.”

The new Reports provides several advantages including an easy-to-use drag and drop interface for designing and editing reports, bundling of reports into Books, and report Bursting (the ability to run a report or book for more than one member of a single dimension for one data source).

 

The New Embedded Reports Offering Provides a Better User Experience

Customers will NOT have to wait for future releases in order to see new functionality that directly improves the reporting experience. The following lists immediate features/advantages of using the new embedded reports option over continuing to use FR reports:

      • New Charts – Waterfall, doughnut, scatter, bubble, etc.
      • User Interaction – Selectable alias tables, member label display, ad-hoc zoom mode,
      • Narration – Intelligent Narrative Generation is available

 

Migrating from FR to the New Reports is Possible

Customers can perform an in-place (on the same instance) migration of existing FR reports . Users can select either all or individual reports to migrate. Not all elements of the FR reports will migrate automatically;  any the errors requiring resolution when opening a migrated report are shown to the users. The error messages will be provided in an easy-to-understand explanation of the issue.

Note: Due to architecture differences, migration from Narrative Reporting is not supported at this time.

 

As you can see, the next generation is here! We recommend that Oracle EPM customers evaluate their reporting capabilities, experiences, and goals against these new developments.

Contact us today if you have questions, or would like to understand how Capgemini HyperionCoE can help!

Monday, April 19, 2021

Global Enterprise Performance Management Market analysis - 2016 to 2025

What is EPM?

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a process designed to support organizations such as companies, government entities, and nonprofits link their strategies to their plans and execution. EPM includes management processes such as budgeting, planning forecasting, and modeling. In addition, it includes consolidating results and closing books. Moreover, it analyses the performance and helps in making informed decisions. Furthermore, EPM software enables reporting the results to internal as well as external stakeholders. 

Enterprise Performance Management Outlook - 2016 to 2025

After following various surveys and due diligence, we have come up with these interesting figures and analysis. The global enterprise performance management market was valued at $4,738 million in 2016, and is projected to reach $12,562 million by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 11.70% from 2016 to 2025.




Rise in need for making business strategy transparent to all employees, increase in focus on core business, and improvement in performance are some of the major factors that propel the growth of the enterprise performance management market. Furthermore, the rise in adoption of cloud-based EPM across the globe is expected to provide promising opportunities for this market. However, risks in implementation and shifting of the workload from on-premise to cloud hamper the growth of this market.

The global enterprise performance management market is divided on the basis of various factors. It is segmented based on component, deployment, function, industry vertical, and geography. 

By component, the market is divided into software and services. On the basis of deployment, it is categorized into on-premise and cloud. Depending on the function, it is fragmented into finance, human resource (HR), supply chain, and others. According to industry vertical, it is classified into BFSI, IT & telecom, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, energy & utilities, and others. Geographically, it is analysed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.

The global enterprise performance management market is dominated by key players such as Adaptive Insights Inc., Anaplan, Inc., BOARD International S.A., Host Analytics Inc., IBM Corporation, Infor Inc., Oracle, SAP SE, CCH Tagetik (Wolters Kluwer NV), and Workiva.

1) By Component:

It seems EPM software has set of clients and we see marginal increase in the number of clients, licenses. However, the services required to implement, support, enhance, migrate seem to increase rapidly in recent years. So EPM market definitely revolves more around providing services. 


 2) By Geography 

North America is expected to dominate the overall market during the forecast period, as it experiences the highest demand for enterprise performance management software. However, the Asia Pacific Enterprise Performance Management Market would witness market growth of 14.9% CAGR during the forecast period (2019 - 2025). 

3) By Industry Vertical

Later the global financial crisis, the banks have been very conscious about the measure that helps them reduce risk in their balance sheet and are restructuring their cost bases leveraging the economic prosperity and liquidity. However, many banks remain vulnerable to customers' financial circumstances, such as loan debts added with the commercialization of banks gives rise to cut-throat competition.

Thereby, Companies in the BFSI sector are increasingly deploying EPM applications to enable financial planning and budgeting processes streamlining. Blue Link ERP Launched the Financial Report Writer in Aug 2019 that is expected to aid its deployment in the BFSI sector. Also, industries such as the Swedish banking industry, the Thai banking industry have started to implement progress management solutions into their core operations.

The BFSI segment led the market in 2016, and is expected to dominate in the near future. However, the energy & utility segment is expected to grow at a significant pace during the forecast period.

4) By Vendor

In 2019, the top 10 EPM software vendors accounted for nearly 76.1% of the global Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications market which grew 8.5% to approach nearly $3.9 billions in EPM license, maintenance and subscription revenues, slightly above our previous projection.

Last year Oracle led the pack with a 27.6% market share riding on a 25% jump in EPM license, maintenance and subscription revenues. SAP was #2, followed by IBM, Anaplan and Workday in that order.

 


5) By Business Function

The Enterprise Performance Management market by business function has been segmented into finance, Human Resource (HR), supply chain, sales and marketing, and others, which include IT, operations, and support and maintenance. The HR segment to grow at the highest CAGR, as the HR department needs to maximize the potential of their workforce while increasing efficiency. EPM solutions offer better insights into human capital performance and streamline HR processes, right from recruitment to retirement.

Finance will continue to lead the EPM market. 


6) By Deployment 

Integration of cloud-based infrastructure and business analytics is expected to provide lucrative growth opportunities.

Faster time to value (TTV), reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), and increased autonomy are some of the factors, which are expected to fuel the market demand during the forecast period. The adoption of cloud-based EPM software is increasing significantly, owing to the benefits such as real-time availability of operational and financial data that is not available using existing legacy and on-premise systems. Infrastructure costs ranging from operating system updates to server upgrades also increase the costs of maintaining on-premise enterprise performance management systems, without an assurance of higher quality. Cloud-based EPM application updates are automatically pushed out to customers. Thus, all these factors are anticipated to offer future opportunities for cloud-based EPM software market. 



Disclaimer: The research methodology used to estimate and forecast the global Enterprise Performance Management market size began with capturing data from key vendors’ revenue through secondary research, annual reports, government publishing sources, the technical and market blogs, Factiva, Bloomberg, and press releases. So, numbers are not accurate but close to accurate. 

 

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Should we upgrade to Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2?

    There is a school of thought that says ‘...if it ain’t broken...don’t fix it’. And to some extent this still remains true, especially for customers running stable releases such as 11.1.2.4. However, as soon as a real issue does arise, the first question from Oracle will be ‘...are you on the latest supported release?’.

The recurring question our Hyperion clients pose is “should we upgrade or not?”



·       The premier support for Oracle EPM V11.1.2.4 ends in Dec-2021. That is our reason #1.
Is that the only reason to consider this upgrade to new version – V11.2?
Absolutely not. Though it is one of major reasons, there are several factors behind this.

·       Reason 2:
Oracle has confirmed extended support for on premise EPM modules HFM, planning to 2031 via their Applications Unlimited programme. To benefit from this you need to plan an upgrade to 11.2, its latest maintenance release, 11.2.x

·       Reason 3:
Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.4 is compatible with Windows Server 2008 & 2012 and Microsoft Office 2016. One of our clients is on Windows Server 2008 and another client is on Windows Server 2012. Not sure if it is more related to applications, but performance is better with Windows Server 2012. Some of our Hyperion customers have IT departments that are now advocating corporate standards of Windows Server 2016 / 2019 and the use of the latest Office 2019 releases. This requires an EPM 11.2 Hyperion platform. Or should we say EPM V11.2 requires Windows Server 2016/2019. Whatever we say , that contributes to our reasons list.

·       Reason 4:
Often the prompt to update Hyperion environments comes from IT. This is particularly the case where security exposures have arisen in underlying components such as weblogic or JDeveloper - software that Hyperion requires in order to function properly.

This latest version covers much of Oracle’s product portfolio. That translates into mitigations for 398 security vulnerabilities. Wading through those to get to the Hyperion EPM-related patches - including the supporting back-end framework dependencies - is not trivial.

If you are running Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.4.xx – patched up-to-date to the Quarterly Critical Patch Released in Apr-2020 - then an update to 11.2 directly brings:

Ø  several technical updates for Hyperion Financial Management (Maximum Base score 4.2)

Ø  a single technical update for Hyperion Financial Reporting (Maximum Base Score 2.4)

Ø  no fewer than 12 technical updates for WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0 (Base Scores from 4.3 to 9.8)

Ø  additional unrated dependencies (e.g. on underlying software components such as JDeveloper) required for implementing these updates.

We actually applied almost 60+ patches for one of our customers to get Oracle Hyperion EPM ready for this upgrade.

We strongly recommend to upgrade your Oracle Hyperion EPM to V11.2.x and get set for another decade of your financial consolidations, planning etc

How we can help

If you are facing pressure to move off legacy releases of Hyperion, do keep in mind that you have choices. Our consultants are well-versed in helping customers meet their IT Audit requirements, or in helping them validate technical and application upgrade implications.

Next step

Considering which version of V11.2.x will be another due diligence to follow in blog soon.

 


Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Let’s think - HFM or FCCS


Recently , we are working with our clients who uses HFM or looking to implement new consolidation and Financial Reporting System. A question that we are frequently asked is “What is the difference between HFM and FCCS?” To answer this question let’s look at the features and functionality in FCCS and comparison of both FCCS and HFM applications.

FCCS

FCCS means Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service.  FCCS is a software as a service (SAAS).

FCCS isn’t quite “HFM in the cloud”, however, it is a great option for organizations looking for a cloud-focused consolidation solution. Almost all the tried and true features of HFM are present in FCCS. One of the attributes of FCCS that bears a striking resemblance to HFM is the dimensionality offered. 

Infrastructure:

  • Universal access – Cloud computing can allow remotely located employees to access applications and work via the internet on a variety of devices, i.e. laptop, tablet, smartphone. FCCS is very mobile friendly.
  • Up to date software – FCCS software is always up to date. Upgrade and managed by Oracle.
  • Security – This is a core competency of Cloud providers. They take more defensive measures – staff & resources – dedicated to the security of the data and applications.
  • Scalability – A growing (or shrinking) company can scale their services up or down, whenever they need them without investing in additional infrastructure.
  • Disaster Recovery and Backup – With your company’s data safely stored on secure data centers instead of your server room, losing power due to unforeseen disasters, you are back at work as long as you have an internet connection.
  • Reduction of costs – unlike on-site hosting the price of deploying applications in the cloud can be less due to lower hardware costs from more effective use of physical resources.

FCCS Key Benefits:

  • Best Practices: Best practices out-of-the-box to get up and running quickly.
  • Consolidations: A configurable and upgradable consolidation and close framework to tailor the solution to specific requirements.
  • Close Management: An end to end consolidation and close solution.
  • Reporting: Powerful analytics, dashboards, reports, and analysis for unparalleled insight.
  • Easy to use and maintain.
  • Automate Data and Metadata load processes
  • No infrastructure investments required

FCCS Key Features:

  • Application Creation Wizard – Reduces the time needed to configure and implement the solution
  • Upgradeable Framework – Configure and extend the solution as required
  • Simple Upgrades – Configurations are fully upgradeable
  • Intercompany Eliminations – Automatic default intercompany eliminations
  • Currency Translation – Default currency translation along with automatic foreign exchange and currency translation adjustment
  • Journals- Robust journals module including supported workflow
  • Automated Cash Flow Reporting –Using movement hierarchies and bolting calculations with no need for additional calculations
  • Close Process Management – Built in task orchestration and close management analysis
  • Supplemental Details – Supporting schedules for collection of detailed information helping support statement balances
  • Hybrid cloud deployments – Support with deep integration to both cloud and on-premises systems

FCCS and HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) differences:

  1. Pre-Seeded Account Dimension

HFM allows to customise Account hierarchy. Design account dimension as per business needs. Balance sheet and income statement could be part of same hierarchy or separate hierarchies.

FCCS comes with pre seeded Account hierarchy and limited customization at summary account hierarchies.

  1. Custom Dimensions

HFM has unlimited custom dimensions in version 11.1.2.4.

FCCS comes with 2 custom dimensions in regular version and If GAAP custom dimension is enabled then 1 custom dim is left to use. 

  1. Multi GAAP – Dimension

FCCS comes with Multi GAAP Dimension is available to produce reports in multiple accounting principals.

HFM application is needed to be customised to produce reporting in multiple accounting principals.

  1. Cash Flow – Movement Dimension

FCCS comes with out of box cash flow functionality.

HFM application needed to be customised to produce cash flow reporting. No functionality is available as such in HFM from out to the box.

  1. Data Management

FCCS comes with data management which is very similar to FDMEE or data management in HFM but limited scripting is available. Data can be also be loaded using SmartView and data forms. Drill back capabilities available to Cloud ERP and to the files. On Prem FDMEE can be used to upload data as well.

HFM data is mostly loaded using FDMEE or Data management. FDMEE have scripting, drill back capabilities and integration adapters for source systems available.

  1. Reporting:

FCCS comes with predesigned Financial Reports and dashboards and configurable as per client requirements.

HFM doesn’t come with preconfigured financial reports and reports needs to be designed as client requirements. 

  1. EPM Automate: 

FCCS Data and Metadata loads are automated using EPM Automate. This tool is only available with cloud products.

  1. Close Management:

FCCS has close management functionality which allows to create schedule for month end close process and close tasks listed and assigned. Built in dashboard provides a quick overview of the status of the period end close processes. Tool designed to attain the optimum efficiency of accounting period close.

  1. Multiple Applications:

FCCS don’t have feature to create multiple apps within same environment\POD. Separate pod will be required for separate applications.

HFM allows to create multiple apps within same environment.

  1. Backend Databases:

FCCS is designed on Essbase database. For larger databases, account changes take longer time to restructure.  Account is mostly the dense dimension.

HFM is based on relational databases and dimension updates won’t have much effect on restructure time.

  1. Pricing:

  FCCS:  Standard and Enterprise Pricing packages are available.  There are other Oracle EPM cloud products available with these packages.

Other Oracle EPM products:

We are just a step away if you have any questions related to HFM or FCCS. With extensive experience in HFM and FCCS, we are helping companies for on-premises upgrades or migration to cloud.

Friday, August 28, 2020

EPM V11.2 Installers Overview


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.

  • AIF
  • ARM
  • Financial Close
  • HFM
  • HPM
  • HSF
  • ODI
  • Planning
  • SDM
  • TaxOP
  • TaxProvisioning
  • TSS

This is very similar to v11.1.2.4 installer “Part 5 V74044-01 “

In v11.1.2.1, applications were distinguished among different installers zip files and we could download only required applications.

This did not cause any confusion while installing or configuring among applications

9)  V998771-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 5

This installer zip is present only in Planning Plus and not in HFM plus.

It contains Essbase related assemblies

  • Essbase services
  • EAS webapp
  • Essbase webapp


10)   V998779-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 6

This installer is all about Weblogic. It contains:

  • Weblogic Common components

 11)                   V998780-01- Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Release Part 7

It contains setup files

 12)                   V998783-01- DRM

This is separate installer for DRM component which comes bundled with HFM plus or planning plus