Foundation Services

The following table describes Foundation Services products.

ProductDescription
Oracle Hyperion Shared Services

Shared Services integrates EPM System products to provide identity management, user provisioning, lifecycle management, and task flow management. It also provides the Shared Services Registry, a central repository that simplifies product configuration by storing and reusing information for most EPM System products that you install.

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Workspace

EPM Workspace provides a consistent and interactive thin-client environment for working with EPM content. EPM Workspace is the Web client for the following products:

  • Reporting and Analysis

  • Oracle Hyperion Planning

  • Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management

  • Oracle Hyperion Financial Management

  • Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect

  • Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard

  • Oracle Hyperion Calculation Manager

  • Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management ERP Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications

  • Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management

  • Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management

In addition, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and Oracle BI EE can be configured to integrate with EPM Workspace.

Performance Management Architect

Performance Management Architect enables creation and deployment of financial applications from a central location. The visual environment provided by Performance Management Architect provides a simple and intuitive user experience for modeling the financial business process, including data, dimensions, and application logic.

Performance Management Architect works with the following products:

  • Calculation Manager

  • Planning

  • Financial Management

  • Oracle Essbase

  • Profitability and Cost Management

Calculation Manager

Calculation Manager is a module with which Planning, Financial Management, and Essbase users can design, validate, and administer business rules in a graphical environment. Users of classic Planning and Financial Management applications may use either Calculation Manager or Oracle Hyperion Business Rules to design and administer their business rules; users of Performance Management Architect applications, however, may use only Calculation Manager to design and administer their business rules.

Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office

Smart View provides a common Microsoft Office add-in for various EPM System products — Essbase, Financial Management, Planning, and Reporting and Analysis. It can also import content from the Reporting and Analysis repository and can perform adhoc analysis on data from Oracle BI EE. Using Smart View, you can view, import, manipulate, distribute, and share data in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint interfaces.