Global View Analytics - Oracle Hyperion EPM and BI Library

Our Business Focus

Dashboards and Analytics

Planning and Forecasting

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Enterprise Data Management

Global View Analytics focuses exclusively on Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions. We help you leverage Oracle technologies to provide better financial, operational, and management reporting across your enterprise. Read about our solutions by Business Focus or Product Focus:

Business Focus

Dashboards and Analytics

Delivering better, more timely information is a constant demand from business users. Making it easily consumable and putting it in context are the real keys to success. We believe that utilizing some form of dashboards and scorecards is a requirement for all companies in today’s rapidly changing environment. They need to be easy to view and understand, dynamic and relevant, and provide analysis and drill-down capabilities. This approach has proven successful, even in organizations with little or no analytic experience. Our ACE Methodology™ incorporates these Business Intelligence capabilities as a critical component of every Performance Management implementation.

The Global View team has expertise in reporting, dashboarding, and scorecarding across many different industries, and we help guide your company through its information management challenges. Move beyond silos of business intelligence and disconnected spreadsheets to gain better visibility into your operations. Our solutions empower your users by providing flexible analytic and reporting capabilities to identify the true drivers of your costs and profitability. This understanding turns the chaos of raw data into actionable insight and allows you to focus on the essential metrics and KPIs most critical to your business.

Global View consultants have delivered solutions that helped clients:

Provide real-time dashboards for instant feedback to business unit and line managers
Simplify training and maintenance by implementing a standardized set of reporting and analytic tools, with a library of pre-defined reports, formulas, calculations, and forms
Eliminate many offline processes and spreadsheets by providing easy drill-down analysis
Empower both local and corporate users with improved visibility into department and program spending, and more time to analyze operating results
Better understand customer segments and behavior patterns to allocate advertising, marketing, and customer service expenditures more effectively

Planning and Forecasting

To manage performance effectively, business unit managers and line managers need timely data to quickly identify and analyze deviations from expected results. Making adjustments as needed, and dynamically refreshing the working plan, creates a flexible structure for managing your operations. Planning must be more than a tedious periodic exercise required by the corporate finance group, it must provide a valuable and useful model utilized by all stakeholders to measure business performance. Our consultants help you balance these needs and deliver a solution to maximize productivity across your organization.

We help you create integrated solutions to align your strategic, financial, and operational planning processes. Creating more accurate forecasts reduces the risk of adverse business impacts from missed estimates. Our best practices have been developed through years of experience across a wide range of industries, and are designed to reduce your cycle times, improve accuracy and controls, and provide more powerful and flexible analysis. Planning involves users throughout your organization, so it is critical to create an integrated and collaborative process which combines advanced modeling capabilities and data integrity with the Excel interface demanded by end users. Global View’s approach blends people, process, and technology to ensure a complete solution that delivers value for all stakeholders.

Global View consultants have delivered solutions that helped clients:

Model profitability drivers to better allocate resources across customer segments, projects, and product lines
Reduce budgeting and planning cycles by days and even weeks
Implement a rolling forecast to provide a more accurate and predictable view of future operating results
Create user-friendly dashboards, interactive analytics, and richly formatted financial reports
Translate strategic goals into operational plans, evaluate competing requests for project funding, and track the effectiveness of capital investment decisions
Conduct what-if analysis and scenario comparisons to assess the real-time impact of changes in head count, salaries, and associated workforce expenses
Perform real-time calculations to analyze the impact of capital assets and related expenses on financial statements
Spend less time on data gathering and administration tasks by creating simplified web input forms
Let non-financial users enter operational drivers, and use business rules to calculate their financial impact

Financial Reporting and Compliance

If you are still using spreadsheets for financial reporting, you are at risk. Today’s stringent reporting regulations require a single version of the truth - one view of financial and operational results integrated from multiple systems. You need flexible financial models that enable easy what-if scenarios, so when facts and assumptions change, you can easily and quickly produce new statements and views of results. This is a critical component in your ability to deliver consistent and timely financial information to both internal and external stakeholders.

The Global View team has years of experience in delivering world-class financial consolidation and reporting solutions. Our expertise and best practices help shorten your close cycle, improve your controls for better compliance, and expand your reporting and analysis capabilities. Our solutions optimize your company’s financial systems, data, and processes so you gain efficiencies in deploying enterprise-wide solutions. We help change the role of your internal staff from just compiling numbers to delivering financial analyses in support of strategic and operational management decisions. Our consultants understand the complexities of global implementations, so we ensure that your financial reporting solution delivers value today, and can also be adapted to comply with future requirements such as pending IFRS regulations.

Global View consultants have delivered solutions that helped clients:

Comply with all U.S. GAAP accounting rules, SEC reporting regulations, and worldwide IFRS requirements
Consolidate financial data from multiple different general ledger systems across dozens of reporting locations worldwide
Significantly reduce the length of their monthly close and quarterly reporting cycles
Lower compliance costs and reduce annual audit fees by improving transparency and data controls
Standardize financial reporting metrics and data definitions to increase consistency and confidence in the numbers
Streamline management of intercompany eliminations, multi-currency translations, and minority interest calculations
Automate and verify data submissions to simplify the time-consuming task of manual data reconciliation
Utilize web reporting and dashboards to reduce the financial burden of producing costly report packages
Link financial close activities with key internal controls, incorporating Sarbanes-Oxley section 302 sub-certifications and section 404 assessments

Enterprise Data Management

A key component to improving the quality and consistency of your business information is to standardize the definition and management of your data, as well as the metrics and KPIs used to measure and analyze results. Research shows that poor data quality and governance is responsible for more delayed or failed Performance Management and Business Intelligence initiatives than any other single factor. We believe that Data Management is a critical component of all EPM and BI implementations, and needs to be addressed in every project plan.

Our consultants have deep expertise in all areas of Enterprise Data Management including data quality, data sourcing, data cleansing, data transformation, data aggregation, data integration, data controls and governance, master data management, hierarchy management, and drill-through technologies. We identify the structures, processes, and tools needed to make your diverse application systems work together seamlessly. Our System Architects ensure that your EPM and BI solutions fit with your existing application, database, and platform investments, while aligning with current and future technology standards.

Global View consultants have delivered solutions that helped clients:

Improve accuracy and controls by centralizing management of meta data, hierarchies, rules, and security definitions
Eliminate manual and often redundant processes by integrating data from multiple sources for analysis
Reduce compliance costs by establishing processes for the management and governance of corporate data
Utilize a single source of dynamically-refreshed data to deliver accurate, reliable, and consistent information
Create dashboards to disseminate vital business information without burdening viewers with the mechanics of the data aggregation process
Provide drill-through analysis from Hyperion applications to the underlying general ledger transactions

Product Focus

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management is a comprehensive web-based solution that supports the collection, consolidation, reconciliation, and reporting of financial results to meet both GAAP and IFRS standards. HFM integrates data from Oracle and non-Oracle transaction systems to provide a single version of the truth for reporting to internal and external stakeholders. With HFM, you will shorten your close cycle, improve the consistency and transparency of your numbers, and deliver more timely financial information. HFM reduces the cost of compliance with today’s regulatory requirements, and also enables and simplifies your transition to IFRS.

Financial Data Quality Management (FDM)
Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management is a packaged solution for finance users that helps develop standardized financial data management processes with its web-based guided workflow approach. It easily integrates and validates financial data from any of your source systems, and can provide Drill-Through visibility to your underlying transactions. FDM improves financial data quality thereby increasing confidence in your numbers and lowering the cost of compliance.

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 Hyperion Planning provides an in-depth look at business operations and its related impact on financials, using advanced modeling capabilities designed to be managed by finance users. With a simplified web interface and nearly seamless Microsoft Excel integration, the solution deploys quickly and appeals to a wide user community. You will reduce your budget cycle time by weeks or even months, while enabling a more accurate and transparent planning process.

Capital Asset Planning
Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning is a specialized solution that automates the planning of capital assets and capital asset related expenses such as depreciation, maintenance, and insurance. The module includes pre-built functionality and best practices that easily plan for all your capital expenses. It is also directly linked to Oracle Hyperion Planning so you can immediately assess the impact of your capital expenses on your overall expenses and financial statements.

Workforce Planning
Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning software is a special-purpose planning module that makes headcount, salary, and compensation planning fast and efficient across the enterprise. Designed with pre-built functionality and best practices that are ready to use right out of the box, it simplifies the planning of workforce and workforce related expenses, such as bonuses, fringe benefits, overtime, and merit increases. It also automatically and seamlessly links your workforce expense plans into Oracle Hyperion Planning to deliver accurate and real-time awareness of the business impact of your workforce decisions on your overall expense plans.

Hyperion Performance Scorecard
Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard is a balanced scorecard collaborative certified application that helps companies clearly articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across the enterprise, monitor key performance indicators, and improve business alignment. The solution offers you complete strategy-and accountability-mapping capabilities, as well as web-based message boards, forums, and discussion threads. You will promote collaboration and accountability, and improve operational efficiency through a continuous business performance management cycle.

Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management
Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management drives business performance by discovering drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment. Unlike traditional activity-based costing applications, the solution supports both cost and revenue management, and offers a flexible allocations platform for any method including ABC, time estimation, etc. You will identify the sources and attributes of your profitability with multidimensional analysis, then leverage profitability as a performance metric to enable management best practices.

Hyperion Strategic Finance (HSF)
Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance is a financial modeling solution that lets executives identify and understand the full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies. It integrates your long-term planning, treasury strategies, and corporate development analysis. HSF delivers pre-packaged modeling and forecasting capabilities so your finance experts can better spend their time testing alternative scenarios, building contingency plans, and analyzing the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.

Integrated Operational Planning (IOP)
Oracle Integrated Operational Planning enables the alignment of key operational planning processes with financial planning to provide a common perspective across financial and operational plans. It addresses a range of high-value planning processes, such as demand-supply alignment, product allocation, and integrated revenue planning, which are supported poorly with spreadsheet tools today. The solution is based on an innovative change-based data modeling engine that allows rich cross-functional modeling and interactive business impact analysis at an enterprise scale. It complements existing financial and supply chain planning systems by linking these functional plans into an integrated business planning framework. This allows planners across business functions to change operational assumptions, re-evaluate planning scenarios, assess business impact, and rapidly update the plan of record.

Oracle Crystal Ball
Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk, allowing you to quantify the risks underlying your forecasts, mitigate key risk factors, and make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most uncertain market conditions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance Intelligence streamlines the full compliance lifecycle from documentation and assessment to remediation, certification, and reporting. It offers enhanced visibility into your organization's compliance readiness and responsiveness by providing risk, control, performance analytics, and dashboarding. Robust out-of-the-box reporting capabilities help validate control design and operating effectiveness against access policies and segregation of duties conflicts. The interactive solution enables GRC professionals to effectively plan, model, report and analyze GRC activities so that potential issues are identified earlier and corrective actions are more timely and informed. You can leverage a single, integrated source of compliance information from Oracle and non-Oracle systems across departments, business units, and regions to get a consistent view and measure of risk across your enterprise.

Hyperion Enterprise
Hyperion Enterprise is a pre-packaged solution for midsize organizations that helps financial managers improve financial consolidation and reporting efficiency while enabling line managers to quickly identify key trends and variances in order to make better, faster decisions. It delivers mission-critical management reporting and analysis, while meeting all the regulatory financial consolidation requirements of global businesses. Hyperion Enterprise can be distributed and installed at remote offices quickly and easily. It can be fully deployed by the finance organization with minimal IT support, even on a standalone PC.

Essbase
Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading multi-dimensional OLAP platform, providing a user-managed environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and performance management applications. Essbase enables your business users to quickly model complex scenarios and perform "what-if" analyses to improve future forecasts and predict trends. It includes over 350 pre-built, out-of-the-box functions, from straightforward aggregations to complex cross-dimensional allocations, as well as comprehensive time series and financial intelligence. The software supports both 32 and 64 bit computing across both Windows and Unix operating environments, and is capable of massive scalability for enterprise wide deployments.

Oracle BI Suite (OBIEE)
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE) is a comprehensive suite of BI products that provide a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities. The suite includes Hyperion reporting products and delivers interactive dashboards, full ad-hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, multi-dimensional OLAP analysis and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, and integration with Microsoft Office. Featuring a unified, highly scalable, modern architecture, OBIEE integrates with any data source, ETL tool, major business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal technology, other front-end and analytical tools, databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services, flat files, XML data, and unstructured data.

Data Relationship Management (DRM)
Data Relationship Management (previously known as Hyperion Master Data Management) provides a solution to build consistency and manage master data across your analytic systems and underlying transaction systems. DRM delivers the industry's first data model-agnostic solution to synchronize financial and analytical dimensions, reporting structures, performance measures and their related attributes and hierarchies, across the information silos that result from mergers and acquisitions, departmental initiatives, and legacy system proliferation. DRM’s drag-and-drop hierarchy maintenance allows side-by-side comparisons and "what if" scenarios for any point in time. The solution enforces policies via business rules & validations and maintains built-in referential integrity, with full history and versioning.

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Data Integrator delivers unique next-generation, ELT technology that improves performance and reduces data integration costs, even across heterogeneous systems. Its event-driven platform supports all data integration styles, as well as various pre-built business rules and application knowledge modules. Unlike conventional ETL tools, ODI offers the productivity of a declarative design approach, as well as the benefits of an active integration platform for seamless batch and real-time integration.

ERP Integrator
ERP Integrator provides bi-directional integration between Oracle Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning, and the Oracle E-Business Suite General Ledger and PeopleSoft Enterprise General Ledger. It speeds implementations and increases data integrity by allowing the GL meta data to be sourced directly into HFM or Planning for financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It also empowers end users by allowing drill-through from the EPM applications down to the transactional systems for faster analysis and closing cycles.

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