Using a Reference Application

A reference application is an application used to diagnose performance issues. A reference application runs a set number of tasks that can be compared with internal timings to help determine if your environment was properly tuned. Running a reference application of some type can help identify problems. However, there is no one application that can manifest all the performance characteristics of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management. It is very common to see good performance on one application, and poor performance on another. The parameters involved include data volume, record distribution per subcube, entity structure, number of currencies, and so on.