Hyperion Planning

Oracle Hyperion Planning is a centralized planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes and improves business predictability.

Oracle’s Hyperion Planning is a web driven Planning and Budgeting tool that utilizes Oracle Essbase as the data storage and calculation engine.

Key Features:

  • Hyperion Planning is a web software application, it also has an add-in with Microsoft Office (called SmartView ) which allows users to forecast or budget in Microsoft Excel, an environment comfortable to most finance users.
  • ·  Hyperion Planning is part of Oracle’s Hyperion EPM software suite and is often utilized with Hyperion Financial Reports and Web Analysis to enhance the analytic value inherent in its underlying use of Essbase. Hyperion Planning has two additional add-in modules; Workforce Planning and Capex Planning that can be purchased along with Planning.

Benefits:

  •    Reduce planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycles by weeks or months
  • ·       Improve accuracy of plans and forecasts
  • ·       Shrink the user learning curve by leveraging a Microsoft Office-based interface
  • ·       Eliminate time lag between when plans are updated and reports are refreshed
  • ·       Reduce cost of ownership through superior application deployment, management tools, and packaged data integration
  • ·       Improve forecast reliability
  • ·        Appeal to a wider user community through an intuitive Web user interface Provide familiar user interface for users with full Microsoft Office integration
  • ·        Flexible workflow capabilities
  • ·        Reliability with predictive planning capabilities
  • ·         Built in reporting and dashboards
  • ·       Robust integration with ERP sources with drill back
  • ·        Enterprise grade deployment and backups
  • ·        Instant calculations and fast aggregations
  • ·       Oracle Hyperion Planning can be deployed on-site or in the Cloud
  • ·       Target setting and bottom-up planning
  • ·        Iterative planning cycles
  • ·        Complex business rules and allocations
  • ·        Web-based data entry; management of the planning cycle through Web or Excel interface.
  • ·        Currency conversion for multicurrency applications
  • ·        Headcount and salary expense modeling
  • ·        Metadata and data synchronization between Planning applications and other Hyperion products
  • ·        Enhance decision making capability
  • ·        Integrate with reporting system for report and analysis