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Is Your Organization Resisting Process and/or System Changes and Therefore Limiting Your Operational Success?

Resistance to “change” has been cited as the #1 reason why system implementation and transformation efforts fail. However, by evaluating your current environment and designing a comprehensive future-state solution, you can optimize your technology investments, meet the needs of your users, and ensure your organization is ready for change.

Process Engineering and Change Engagement activities, including current-state business process documentation, technology inventory, integrated process and system definitions, and proper change management planning, can deliver significant benefits:

Gain operational efficiencies, reduce cycle times, minimize manual efforts and leverage technology to the fullest extent possible, leading to higher ROI from system implementations
Improve resource productivity and focus time on value-added activities such as performance analysis and being a better business partnering
Identify challenges and pain points before making system changes e.g., eliminate migrating current issues into new and improved systems
Develop a strategic roadmap for future changes to ensure priorities and business needs are always key drivers of change, and in the right order
Provide a clear interface/liaison between key business and technology resources
Prepare for process, organization and system changes; ensure the organization and leadership are ready, committed and excited for the changes

View the taped session and learn how to move from saying ‘we need to be more strategic’ to actually doing so and reaping the rewards. Adam Sheinkopf, Process Engineering and Change Engagement Practice Director, shared how to:

Move from a typical technology-focused approach to integrated people, process, technology and change-focused approach
Identify key user and process activities throughout each phase of the approach: from assessment to continuous improvement
Leverage an 8-Step Change Management approach that is proven to drive change successfully
Plus, Adam presents an illustrative project example with details on user activities and how to establish “demand” or the desire to attend training and a positive change attitude.

Name: Is your organization resisting process and/or system changes and limiting your success?
Date: 1/29/13

Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan for Your Oracle Hyperion Systems

What is your disaster recovery plan? Whether natural or man-made, disasters can be protected by developing a plan that will minimize the disruption of your business operations and ensure organizational stability. Some organizations believe a simple tape back-up can protect their organization. However, do you back-up at a different location in case of a natural disaster such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes or blizzards? Have you considered making a backup registry? And, most important, are you properly stopping services, databases and EPM, while backups occur and shutting down the application correctly to protect shared services security?

Steps to disaster recovery planning, including completing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Types of disaster recovery strategies and how to find the right strategy for your organization
How to leverage a disaster recovery solution for additional value-add, including routine system testing, patch loading and version upgrading.

Name: Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan for Your Hyperion Systems
Date: 10/30/12

PLANtastic℠ - Hosted Hyperion Planning in the Cloud

If you think your organization does not have the resources to implement Oracle® Hyperion Planning™, think again! PLANtastic is an all-inclusive entry into a complete, enterprise planning solution for one low monthly price without a significant up front cost.

View the taped session and learn how to:

Move from an Excel focused environment to a scalable, systematic solution
Optimize your planning processes while reducing capital outlay
Avoid the effort associated with the procurement, deployment, configuration of hardware
Utilize on-shore, Oracle certified, and remote Hyperion application administrators to avert the need to hire and train in-house personnel
Reduce operating costs, improve ROI, and manage cashflow

Name: PLANtastic℠- Hosted Hyperion Planning in the Cloud
Date: 9/25/12

What’s New in EPM 11.1.2.2

View the taped session and learn what’s new in release 11.1.2.2 across Hyperion Planning™ and Hyperion Financial Management™ (HFM) suites, as well as Essbase™ and Essbase Studio™. Plus, hear how Oracle’ Exalytics In-Memory Machine is reducing cycle times across major financial process and providing huge gains in response time. This session will also review:

Project Financial Planning pre-built module & functionality
Hyperion Strategic Finance integration with Planning
Predictive Planning through built-in statistical forecasting
New Account Reconciliation Manager in HFM designed to streamline work-flow driven processes
How Oracle Financial Management Analytics leverages OBIEE
Updates to Disclosure Management

Name: What’s New in EPM 11.1.2.2?
Date: 6/7/12

Advanced Financial MDM & Oracle® Hyperion DRM™ Webinar

View the taped session and learn how to implement a world-class Data Governance and Financial Master Data Management program using Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management. The end result will be a key interest to your finance users, IT, SOX and your CFO. Explore how Fortune 500 companies have recently implemented a successful Finance-driven Data Governance program, presented an effective strategy to deal with Enterprise Master Data Management challenges; and demonstrated how Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management can be implemented successfully.

Name: Advanced Financial Master Data Management and Oracle® Hyperion Data Relationship Management™
Date: 5/15/12

Smart View™ Webinar

Name: Smart View™ v11.1.2: New Features & Now Users Can Really Replace the Excel Add-In!
Description: The latest version of Oracle® Smart View can FINALLY replace the Excel Add-In for ad-hoc analysis. View the taped webinar and learn how v11.1.2 introduces innovative features to improve efficiency, such as:

View aliases and member names together, in the same row
Retrieve a range of cells and create multiple grids on one worksheet that can connect to different Essbase data sources
Display dimensions on grid without POV toolbar

Plus, see a demonstration of the new enhancements now available!
Date: 2/14/12

ODI Webinar

Name: Leveraging Oracle Data Integrator Within Your Hyperion Environment
Description: Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) allows for metadata and data loading into Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications including the Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management suites of products. This webinar will provide a review of ODI and how it sits on Oracle's Fusion middleware and acts as an ETL tool for connectivity into all major relational databases. Plus, learn how to make your ODI architecture Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant.
Date: 10/25/11

LCM Webinar

Name: Leveraging Oracle Life Cycle Management Within Your Hyperion Environment
Description: Oracle has introduced a new feature to Shared Services in their Hyperion EPM suite which allows you to efficiently import or export whole applications or a subset of the components. Come join us and learn how Life Cycle Management (LCM) provides this new functionality.
Application: EPM
Date: 1/26/11

OBIEE Webinar

Name: Essbase: Beyond Finance & New Synergy with OBIEE+
Description: Oracle® Essbase™ has been a staple for Finance organizations for years. But did you know that it can also be extended to drive additional calculations, scenarios, and analysis for Sales, Operations, HR, Procurement and Supply Chain, and other functions in very high volume situations? Plus, did you know that Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus® can be leveraged with your Hyperion™ applications to provide intuitive and easy to read reports?
Application: Essbase
Date: 8/24/10

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