You can use e-mail alerts for intercompany transactions and in the process control 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 level of promotion.
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 complete the following steps:
The security class assigned to the scenario and entity for the alert must support e-mail alerts. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Guide.
Users must be assigned a security role to receive e-mail alerts. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Guide.
The SMTP mail server must be configured. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation Start Here.