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Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting

Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review consolidated regional results before submission to the U.S. head office. The challenge was to extend and improve...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Spreadsheet, Productivity

Case studies 2009-09-01

Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning

Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Performance, Financial Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Accounting, Investment, Regulatory Compliance, Performance Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

USA Drug Improves Company Performance by Speeding Access to Data With Web-Based Solution

USA Drug wanted to improve reporting processes to reduce reliance on cumbersome spreadsheets and expand analytical capabilities and automate report distribution to facilitate swift decision-making on key matters. The challenge was to provide faster and easier access to information with Web-based reporting and reduce IT and maintenance costs. USA Drug...

Tags: Web, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Performance, Spreadsheet, Analysis, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-07-01

Xstrata Consolidates Reporting, Streamlines Change Management, and Gains Visibility Into Best Practices

Xstrata wanted to centralize management of 32 global financial consolidations annually across five business units, approximately 2,000 entities, and multiple ERP systems with many different ledgers and complete financial consolidation, budgeting, and reporting seven days after month's end, while gaining a real-time view of each business unit. The challenge was...

Tags: Xstrata Plc., Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Best Practice, Financial Management, Change Management, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Invensys Plc Reduces Mismatches by 90%, and Enhances Strategic Planning

Invensys wanted to condense end-of-period consolidation and reporting cycle for 200 globally dispersed businesses operating on disparate financial systems and simplifies intercompany accounting and eliminates mismatches. The challenge was to provide executives with timely, at-a-glance performance data with advanced drill-down and analysis tools on the desktop and gain broader, in-depth...

Tags: Strategic Planning, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Financial, Invensys, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Performance Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Outgrowing Hyperion Enterprise: What Are the Options?

Faster, more-detailed financial reporting has become a mandatory requirement worldwide. The current financial reporting systems used by many companies - whether spreadsheet-based, a point solution, or Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise - likely fall short when faced with these stricter demands. This white paper describes the newest requirements in financial reporting, identifies...

Tags: Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-04-01

University of Auckland Produces Strategic Student Population Reports in 20 Minutes

University of Auckland wanted to upgrade limited strategic and tactical reporting capabilities that made the University's demonstration of compliance with funding criteria an onerous process and eliminate the need to build Microsoft Access databases, which would take three to four days, to obtain required insights into student population. The challenge...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

Deploying Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition

Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition Smart View provides a common Microsoft Office interface for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management EPM suite of products along with Business Intelligence BI data sources. Using Smart View, one can view, import, manipulate, distribute and share data in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

AMEC Builds Smart, Agile, Globally Aligned Business

AMEC wanted to streamline and centralize global consolidation, statutory and management reporting, and compliance across three operating structures comprising in excess of 30 significant business units and more than 500 base entities. The challenge was to gain in-depth insights into performance metrics in multiple dimensions from disparate data sources and...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, AMEC, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2008-12-01

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?

Imagine a nuclear reactor small enough to be carried by truck and buried in a garden... According to The Guardian, a U.S. company based in New Mexico, Hyperion Power Generation, has designed mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes. The company has already received firm orders and expects to deliver...

Tags: Plant, Roland Piquepaille, Hyperion Solutions Corp.

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Integrated Enterprise Performance Management Architecture Drives Global Vision for BT

BT Group wanted to streamline consolidation of 5,000 separate financial data sources from 580 entities covering all of BT's business units across the world and reduce data preparation costs, gain actionable intelligence to enhance decision-making, simplify auditing, and ensure compliance with international financial reporting standards. The challenge was to build...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, British Telecommunications, Vision, BT Group Plc., Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

Reading Borough Council Streamlines Delivery of Multi Year Public Spending Plans

Reading Borough Council wanted to deliver three- and five-year budget forecasts in line with government requirements and prepare timely, accurate multiyear spending plans within a highly devolved, interactive local government environment. The challenge was to avoid need to divert financial teams from day-to-day tasks. Reading Borough Council implemented Oracle Hyperion...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Productivity, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-10-01

Integrating Oracle's Hyperion Essbase - System 9 With Oracle Business Intelligence

In this paper, one has been introduced to Hyperion Essbase and seen the role it plays in Oracle's business intelligence foundation and the wider world of Oracle Fusion Middleware. One has created a simple Hyperion Essbase database, using data taken from the Sales History sample schema, and then integrated it...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Business Intelligence, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2008-05-01

SAP Takes A Swing at Oracle

SAP has been hinting and mentioning and otherwise suggesting that it is taking away customers from Oracle's much vaunted Hyperion product line, and now it has issued a formal press release to that effect. While the press release talks about over 100 Oracle customers choosing SAP products over Hyperion, the...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-02-26

SAP-BusinessObjects: what was unsaid

The SAP-BusinessObjects go to market show was mildly interesting but left key questions unanswered. Colleagues Dan Farber and Mike Krigsman were on the call as was James Governor. I asked how the combined operation might incorporate non-financial measures into the new solutions. I was thinking about how...

Tags: Opportunity, Hyperion Solutions Corp., SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Human Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-16

ING Asia/Pacific Improves Analysis Capabilities and Accelerates Reporting Processes

ING Asia/Pacific's Investment Management division was looking for a flexible data gathering and reporting tool. In addition, its Japanese operations needed a data warehouse that could capture, consolidate, store, and compute vast amounts of data for analysis and decision-making activities. To meet its growing reporting and analysis challenges, ING Asia/Pacific...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Hyperion Essbase, Analysis, ING Group, ING Asia/Pacific, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2007-08-01

Fifth Third Bancorp Improves Profitability With Greater Visibility and Insight

The decentralized nature of Excel made administering global changes on more than 1,200 templates nearly impossible. Additionally, the Excel approach was not scalable or flexible enough to support expanding forecasting requirements. Further, there was no easy way to analyze the sales structure and make comparisons and stacked rankings. Fifth Third...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Fifth Third Bancorp, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2007-08-01

The ABB Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance

The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., ABB Group, Liquidity, ABB, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-08-01

Fifth Third Bancorp Increases Financial Visibility Across Businesses for Increased Efficiency

Fifth Third Bancorp is a Fortune 500 company and diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company has provided quality financial products and services to its customers for almost 150 years. Faced with the need to improve decision making, reporting, and planning during a period of rapid expansion...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Fifth Third Bancorp, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-08-01

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Establishes Global Financial Visibility, Enhances Strategic Planning

Fonterra Co-operative Group is a leading multinational dairy company owned by 11,600 New Zealand dairy farmers. Its global supply chain connects shareholders' farms in New Zealand to customers and consumers in 140 countries. Fonterra needed a financial system that could increase efficiency across its rapidly expanding operations. Oracle's Hyperion Financial...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, New Zealand, Fonterra Co-operative Group, E-mail, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Online Communications, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2007-08-01