You can use e-mail alerting for intercompany transactions and during the process management review process. E-mail alerts help highlight a key event or data change in the system. For example, you can send an e-mail alert that an intercompany transaction is mismatched and needs to be matched, or that a process unit is ready for the next promotion level.
E-mail alerts are sent using standard Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), so you can use alerts with any e-mail system that works with Internet e-mail. To use alerts, you must specify the SMTP server name when you run the Financial Management configuration utility. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide.
The alert process uses the e-mail addresses that are stored in your authentication files, such as LDAP, MSAD, or Native Directory.
Before you can send or receive e-mail alerts, you must have set up user and data security rights in the application. The security class assigned to the scenario and entity for the alert must support e-mail alerts, and users must be assigned a security role to receive e-mail alerts.