Integrating Lifecycle Management with Existing Workflow Systems

You can integrate Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Lifecycle Management with existing workflow systems using Java APIs or a command-line utility. In most cases, the command-line utility is sufficient, because the logic of the migration is captured in the migration definition file. The migration definition file (an XML file) can be created using the Lifecycle Management functionality in Oracle Hyperion Shared Services Console, or it can be created programmatically by the workflow system.

If you use the migration definition file created by Shared Services Console, it must be programmatically modified to add the user’s credentials to it. These credentials must be in plain text when inserted into the XML file but will be automatically encrypted the first time the migration is executed. Once the migration definition file is created, it can be invoked by the production management system using a command-line utility or Java API.