This post is brief overview of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Products which consists of
1) Hyperion Foundation Services
1.1) EPM Shared Services – provides EPM System Products identity management, user provisioning, and task flow management.
1.2) EPM workspace – thin client interface to work with EPM content.
1.3) Performance Management Architect – enables creation and deployment of financial applications from central location.
1.4) Calculate Manager – module used by Planning, Essbase, and Financial Management users can use to design, validate and administer business rules.
1.5) Smart view for Office – microsoft office add-in for Hyperion System Products.
2) Essbase
2.1) Essbase – is business analysis software to develop custom analytics and enterprise performance management applications.
2.2) Essbase Administration Service – administration tool to manage Essbase deployed on application server.
2.3) Business Rules – installed and configured as part of Administration Services, is used to create, execute and manage business rules.
2.4) Integration Services – tool to create OLAP models, outlines and Essbase Database.
2.5 ) Provider Services – is middle tier data source provider for essbase, planning, and so on
2.6) Essbase Studio – consolidates cube-construction activities in one interface.
3) Hyperion Reporting and Analysis
3.1) Hyperion Interactive Reporting – intuitive user-directed query and analysis capabilities.
3.2) Hyperion Financial Reporting – book-quality financial and management reports that comply with regulations and external requirements.
3.3) Hyperion SQR production Reporting – high-volume, formatted reports coming form different sources
3.4) Hyperion Web Analysis – provides online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis.
4) Hyperion Financial Performance Management Application
4.1) Planning – is a centralized planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes.
4.2) Financial Management – is financial systems software application that provides global collection reporting and analysis in single solution.
4.3) Financial Close Management – to define, execute, and report on interdependent activities of financial close period.
4.4) Performance Scorecard – is a balanced scorecard collaborative certified application to articulate strategy and goals, communicate them across enterprise and monitor KPI.
4.5) Hyperion Strategic Finance – is financial modelling application to identify and understand full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies.
4.6) Profitability and Cost Management – is an analytic application for managing cost and revenue allocation to compute profitability for business segment.
4.7) Disclosure Management – used to assemble a reporting package for submission to a regulatory agency.
5) Data Management
5.1) Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) – helps finance users develop standardised financial data management processes.
5.2) ERP Integrator – Module of FDM, to integrate metadata and data from ERP source system to Hyperion EPM target application.
5.3) Hyperion Data Relationship Manager (DRM) – enables to build consistency within master data assets despite changes within the underlying transactional and analytical systems.
