Usually used on an Accountability map, the accountability element represents the individuals or groups responsible for performing specific tasks or taking ownership of specific strategy elements.

A visual, hierarchical representation of the responsibility, reporting, and dependency structure of the accountability teams (also known as critical business areas) in an organization.

One of three default security roles provided, this role enables users to whose account it is applied to perform administrative tasks, such as create domains, manage user accounts, generate a Hyperion Essbase database, monitor alert activity, enable external authentication, and use Shared Services.

Object to which you subscribe to receive e-mail notification when performance for business objects departs from a defined acceptable range. Alerts can also be created to prompt subscribers when application-building tasks, such as measure result collection or initiative completion, are approaching or past their specified completion date.

Component of Hyperion Performance Scorecard that facilitates alert notification e-mail and enables administrators to monitor alert activity. The alerter is deployed as a separate application to the Web application server.

1) A software program designed to run a specific task or group of tasks such as a spreadsheet program or database management system. 2) A related set of dimensions and dimension members that are used to meet a specific set of analytical requirements, reporting requirements, or both.

An administrative feature that contains a record of all modifications made to the application and application components. Use the report to access information about which applications or application components have been modified, when, and by whom.

A framework that emphasizes the role of your organization's strategy and the achievement of strategic goals based on the use of financial, customer, internal, and learning and growth perspectives.

See critical business area (CBA). or accountability element or team.

Any application component, such as a scorecard, measure, employee, variable, or framework. Changes to business objects are tracked using the Audit report.

A scorecard that uses the scores of other, lower-level scorecards. For example, if you are building a scorecard for an element or employee that is responsible for, or whose performance should be affected by a lower-level scorecard score, you can add the lower-level scorecard to the scorecard you are building.

A map that depicts how the elements that form your corporate strategy relate and how they work together to meet your organization's strategic goals. A Cause and Effect map tab is automatically created for each Strategy map.

An application component that is directly connected to another (parent) component as seen on Strategy maps, Accountability maps, and with scorecards.

An additional number of days that increase a measure's frequency, during which a measure's result collector can enter or modify measure results before the measure is locked. For example, for a measure with an expected collection date of May 26th, giving a collection extension of 3 days means that result collectors for the measure have until May 29th to enter or modify result values. After this date, May 30th and onward, the measure is locked.

Generates a list of expected measure result collection dates. For example, to collect measure data twice a year, specify a collection frequency of semi-annually. If the dates calculated by this frequency elapse without a result being entered, and a collection extension for the measure is not given, the measure becomes locked and result collectors cannot enter result data.

Also called a target, a comparator is a specific result value which a measure is expected or anticipated to collect in a particular period of time. Use multiple measure comparators to assess measure results against a variety of internal or external values. For example, you may want to establish a short and a long term comparator for a measure.Comparator values are entered using Hyperion Performance Scorecard's reports.

A measure that uses other measure result data to calculate its results. For example, employee productivity can be expressed as a composite measure because it can be assessed by examining: hours worked by employee, quantity of employee work, and quality of employee work.

An individual or a group organized into a division, region, plant, cost center, profit center, project team, or process; also called accountability team or business area.

A capability that must be established and sustained to achieve a strategic objective; owned by a strategic objective or a critical process and is a parent to one or more actions.

Security role assigned to users and employees who build and modify applications and scorecards using the Designer work area. A designer user account is also provided with the product that can be used to log on and use Hyperion Performance Scorecard before specific user accounts have been created.

One of three default security roles provided, this role enables users to whose account it is applied to build and modify business objects using the object view.

A data category used to organize business data for the retrieval and preservation of values. Dimensions usually contain hierarchies of related members grouped within them. For example, a Year dimension often includes members for each time period, such as quarters and months.

Template with one or more associated dimensions that is a used to create dimensional measures. Associating a dimension with a Dimension Measure Template automatically creates a dimension measure for each dimension member within the associated dimension.

A measure to which dimensional information is assigned. A dimension lets you group and analyze measure logically.

Object defined by an administrator that represents either a functionally or geographically distinct business area, such as a regional office, or a department within an organization. Most business objects, such as measures, employees, and scorecards are assigned to a particular domain. For example, scorecards assessing employee productivity may belong to the Human Resources domain.

A user responsible for, or associated with, specific business objects. Employees need not work for an organization; for example, they can be consultants. Employees must be associated with user accounts, for authorization purposes.

Provides detailed information about each employee in your application, including the employee's scorecard and responsibilities.

A scorecard building feature that enables users to assign the same weighting to all measures on a scorecard.

Logging on to Oracle EPM System products with user information stored outside the application. The user account is maintained by the EPM System, but password administration and user authentication are performed by an external service, using a corporate directory such as Oracle Internet Directory (OID) or Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD).

A methodology that facilitates a disciplined approach to translate performance strategy into action. Frameworks identify areas that are critical to the achievement of organizational goals and performance targets and outline how they must act to achieve the mission and vision of the organization. Often called "The pillars of success". Commonly used frameworks include Balanced Scorecard, Malcolm Baldridge, and Andersen Value Dynamics.

Determines when, how often, and the latest possible date on which measure results must be collected. See collection frequency. and result frequency.

A task or group of tasks that an organization executes to achieve one or more strategic objectives. In a Hyperion Performance Scorecard application, each action box represents an activity or task that helps to accomplish a strategic objective. See action.

Lists the strategy and accountability elements to which initiatives are attached and the individuals or groups who are responsible for carrying them out. The Initiatives Status report also identifies the status, priority, and assigned completion date of each initiative.

A process that is run to move data between Oracle's Hyperion applications using Shared Services. Data integration definitions specify the data moving between a source application and a destination application, and they enable the data movements to be grouped, ordered, and scheduled.

Identifies and unlocks business objects such as measures, targets, and reports that are locked because they are being modified or have become otherwise frozen.

A feature that displays your current position on a Strategy, Accountability, or Cause and Effect map, indicated by a red outline.

Objective, quantifiable data that indicates the level of progress toward a performance target. Measure results can be scalable (fall within a range of values) or absolute. Measures are associated with strategy elements and accountability teams.

Hyperion Performance Scorecard report that provides detailed information about each measure.

Setting specified for a user account's security role that provides global or conditional access to measures.

A set of data that defines and describes the properties and attributes of the data stored in a database or used by an application. Examples of metadata are dimension names, member names, properties, time periods, and security.

A statement that defines the immediate, key business goals of the accountability teams or critical business areas that form the structure of that organization.

1) In data mining, a collection of an algorithm's findings about examined data. A model can be applied against a wider data set to generate useful information about that data. 2) A file or content string containing an application-specific representation of data. Models are the basic data managed by Shared Services, of two major types: dimensional and nondimensional application objects. 3) In Business Modeling, a network of boxes connected to represent and calculate the operational and financial flow through the area being examined.

A method of organizing, storing, and referencing data through three or more dimensions. An individual value is the intersection point for a set of dimensions. Contrast with relational database.

In Shared Services, a type of model that includes application objects, such as security files, member lists, calculation scripts and Web forms.

This feature is a scorecard building option that can be used if a scorecard's weight must add to 100, but users want to retain the different weighting ratio for each measure and perspective on the scorecard.

The individual or group responsible for a strategy element.

An application component, such as an Entity or strategic objective that has one or more application components below it on a map that are directly connected to it. These components are called its children. Scorecards can also be parents if lower-level scorecards are attached to them.

An image file used to represent measure and scorecard performance based on a range you specify; also called a status symbol. You can use the default performance indicators or create an unlimited number of your own.

Security role setting that defines a user's access to scorecards and measures.

A category used to group measures on a scorecard or strategic objectives within an application. A perspective can represent a key stakeholder (such as a customer, employee, or shareholder/financial) or a key competency area (such as time, cost, or quality).

A high-priority measure important to your company and business needs. Displayed in the Contents frame.

In Shared Services, an application type, such as Planning or Performance Scorecard.

Means of transferring application data to a different environment or database server. Promotion is essentially the replication of application data from one environment such as development to another environment such as production.

Means of denying access to specific measures, scorecards, and web pages. Restrictions are applied to security roles which are applied to user accounts.

The day on which Hyperion Performance Scorecard collects a measure result value as determined by a measure's frequency, for use in reports.

A measure's result formula determines how measure result data is calculated and assessed. For example a result formula for the measure Net Income could be: ((mResult("Net Sales") - mResult("Cost of Sales")) - mResult("Operating Expenses").

The algorithm used to create a set of dates to collect and display results.

The means by which access permissions are granted to users and groups for resources.

The level at which targets are achieved, usually expressed as a percentage of the target.

A business object that represents the progress of an employee, strategy element, or accountability element toward goals. Scorecards ascertain this progress based on data collected for each measure and child scorecard added to the scorecard.

A score formula for a measure determines how the measure's results will be assessed to produce a final measure score.

A low-priority measure, less important than primary measures. Secondary measures do not have Performance reports but can be used on scorecards and to create dimension measure templates.

Authentication provider.

The part of the Shared Services repository that manages EPM System deployment information for most EPM System products, including installation directories, database settings, computer names, ports, servers, URLs, and dependent service data.

Framework reputed to capture the true economic profit of an organization by calculating the net operating profit minus an appropriate charge for the opportunity cost of all capital invested in an enterprise. This framework is meant to provide the most accurate measure of corporate performance over any given time.

A long-term goal defined by measurable results. Each strategic objective is associated with one perspective in the application, has one parent, the entity, and is a parent to critical success factors or other strategic objectives.

High-level categories of strategy you can use to group lower-level strategy elements on Cause and Effect maps.

Represents how the organization implements high-level mission and vision statements into lower-level, constituent strategic goals and objectives.

The condition that exists when the latest version of a model resides in both the application and in Shared Services. See also model.

Expected results of a measure for a specified period of time (day, quarter, and so on).

A centralized location for user and group information, also known as a repository or provider. Popular user directories include Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD), and Sun Java System Directory Server.

Definition created by a business or organization of its goals and business strategies.

A value assigned to an item on a scorecard that indicates the relative importance of that item in the calculation of the overall scorecard score. The weighting of all items on a scorecard accumulates to 100%. For example, to recognize the importance of developing new features for a product, the measure for New Features Coded on a developer's scorecard would be assigned a higher weighting than a measure for Number of Minor Defect Fixes.