In Performance Management Architect, you create applications which describe the dimensionality and other information about an application. When you create applications, you can then validate and deploy the applications to Oracle's Hyperion products. The deployment process creates an application in the desired product, such as Financial Management, Profitability and Cost Management, Essbase, or Planning.
To deploy applications, you must be provisioned in Shared Services with the user role of Application Creator for the specific product type. See Security for additional information.
The deployment process involves:
Validating the Application—The application is validated for a product, such as Financial Management, Profitability and Cost Management, Essbase, or Planning.
If the application is missing dimensions or other required information, the deployment is aborted. Also, if another deployment for the application is in progress, the request is cancelled.
Selecting the Environment Information for Deployment—Select the environment to which you are deploying the application.
Export and Deploy the application—When you deploy an application, the deployment job begins and the application is exported from Performance Management Architect to a specific Hyperion product. When you initiate deployment, the status of the application displays “Deployment Pending” in the Application Library.
Product Application Creation—In new deployments, the Hyperion product creates the application and the Hyperion product server attempts to load the metadata. After deployment is complete, the status and deployment timestamp is updated in the Application Library. Then, the deployment job is marked as “Completed.” For information on viewing deployment jobs, see Managing Jobs.