Oracle® Hyperion Financial Management, Fusion Edition

New Features

Release 11.1.2


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Table of Contents:

Installation

Configuration

Copy Application Utility Support for EPMA Applications

Extended Analytics Enhancements

Financial Management Configuration Utility

Web UI Changes

Accessibility Enhancements

Smart View

Integration with Financial Close Management

Integration with Disclosure Management

Integration with Oracle Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)

Installation

  • Most Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System products have adopted Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) as the logging mechanism. The ODL framework provides uniform support for managing log files, including log file rotation, maximum log file size, and the maximum log directory size. See the “Using EPM System Logs” chapter of the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Troubleshooting Guide.

  • Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) integrates with My Oracle Support and provides configuration information for Oracle software. It assists in the troubleshooting, maintenance, and diagnostics of your EPM System deployment. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide.

  • With this release, many EPM System products support hostnames that resolve to IPv6 addresses. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Certification Matrix. IPv4 support (both hostname and IP address) remains unchanged from earlier releases.

  • Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System supports these types of SSL configurations:

    • Full SSL Deployment (including data access)

    • SSL Terminating at the Web Server

    • SSL Accelerators (Off-loading)

    • Two-way SSL

      See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Security Administration Guide.

Configuration

All Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Fusion Edition configuration is now included as part of the EPM System Installer. See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide.

Copy Application Utility Support for EPMA Applications

With the Financial Management Copy Application Utility, you can now copy Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect, Fusion Edition applications, as well as Classic Administration applications, from one server to another. For example, you can copy applications from a test to a production environment. You can copy deployed or undeployed Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect, Fusion Edition applications. See the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Administrator's Guide.

Extended Analytics Enhancements

Extended Analytics now includes an option to extract flat files without headers. When you select this option, all extracted dimensions are listed in a record-by-record format. See the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Administrator's Guide.

Financial Management Configuration Utility

The Financial Management Configuration Utility (HFMConfigure.exe) includes the ability to specify database information for Extended Analytics. See the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Administrator's Guide.

Web UI Changes

The Financial Management Web UI has been enhanced for greater ease of use and consistency with other Hyperion products.

Accessibility Enhancements

This release includes keyboard shortcuts for all Financial Management modules. See the Accessibility appendix in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Administrator’s Guide.

Smart View

This release includes support for Smart Slices in Financial Management, support for the new ribbon, cascading of reports, and support for Financial Management Task Lists in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook. See the Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office User’s Guide.

Integration with Financial Close Management

This release includes integration with Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management, which enables you to define, execute, and report on the interdependent activities of a financial close period. It provides centralized monitoring of all close process tasks and provides a visible, automated, repeatable system of record for running close processes. See the Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management Administrator's Guide.

Integration with Disclosure Management

This release includes integration with Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management, which helps companies ensure the completeness and accuracy of external and statutory financial reports, and their transformation into specifically stylized statutory filings using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). See the Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management User's Guide.

Integration with Oracle Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)

There are now two integration points between Financial Management and the Oracle GRC solution set. Both integrations are delivered and deployed as Oracle GRC Blueprint solutions.

The Oracle GRC Blueprint, Financial Audit Scoping Tool (FAST v1.0), provides the first integration between Financial Management and the Oracle Enterprise GRC Manager (EGRCM) application. EGRCM enables customers to manage GRC-related business processes across the enterprise. FAST enables auditors to scope controls for assessment and testing by bringing together Financial Management accounts, entities and balances along with associated risks and mitigating controls from EGRCM into a single workbench view to design the controls assessment using advanced filtering and ad-hoc selections.

Hyperion AACG Adapter (HAA v1.0) is the second GRC Blueprint and provides integration between Financial Management and Application Access Control Governor (AACG), a module in the Oracle GRC Application Controls application. AACG enables customers to monitor, control and prevent incompatible security access across critical business applications. The Hyperion adapter for AACG utilizes the security access and user provisioning from Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services (HSS) to enforce segregation of duties across HSS-enabled Hyperion applications in AACG. Also, this initial version of the adapter adds Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Fusion Edition class access to the AACG access analysis. See the Oracle Governance Risk and Compliance documentation.