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Your Oracle enterprise performance management (EPM) Hyperion Financial Management solutions are a key part of the success of your organization. Naturally, you want to ensure that your organization realizes the highest value from your investment, now and in the future. Over time, organizations change with new demands for information, tighter time frames and an expanding number of people seeking information. As these changes and requirements accumulate, applications that were designed to meet PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS WITH ORACLE your business requirements may no longer be aligned with your CONSULTING current or future requirements. Derive the highest level of business value and maximize the return on your investment by ensuring that your Financial Management solutions evolve with your business.

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KEY FEATURES Financial Management • Proven methodology for rapid and effective application assessments Oracle Consulting can help you streamline your optimization efforts by providing a • Immediate benefits for your realistic assessment of the current state of your Oracle Hyperion Financial organization Management implementation. Utilizing our functional, integration and infrastructure • Executable roadmap for application expertise, our assessment service evaluates the major functional and technical optimization aspects of your Oracle Hyperion solutions and business processes. Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management focuses on identifying the

KEY BENEFITS gaps between your current and future requirements and your current application • Identify solutions to your most deployments. We follow a proven assessment methodology: pressing issues with your Oracle  Scope Definition: To ensure the most cost-effective approach, we Hyperion Financial Management Solution(s) work with you to determine exactly which application(s) and

• Effectively leverage new and existing processes will be reviewed as part of the assessment. We provide application functionality your team an assessment checklist. A typical assessment takes two

• Optimize your existing application (2) weeks but is ultimately driven by the number and complexity of infrastructure to ensure performance the solutions to be assessed. and reliability  Customer Questionnaires and Workshops: Based on the scope • Derive the highest level of business value from your solutions of the assessment, we leverage our proprietary questionnaires in

• Develop a roadmap for continuous conjunction with our onsite workshops to assess your solution’s improvement current state. This is a “triage” exercise designed to identify and prioritize any perceived or existing solution challenges. The completed questionnaires in conjunction with the workshop output

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RELATED PRODUCTS provide Oracle Consulting with the information needed to develop an The Oracle Consulting Hyperion effective recommendation. Financial Management Assessment can also be leveraged with other Oracle Oracle ConsultingAssessment Report: Based on the information gathered, Oracle EPM modules including: Consulting will produce an Assessment Report. The report details • Oracle Hyperion Planning Suite our findings, including any current challenges, gaps and • Oracle Suite configuration elements that may prevent you from realizing the full • Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost value of your Oracle Hyperion Financial Management solution. We Management identify high-impact areas and provide recommendations to effectively address any application, integration or infrastructure changes that could be deployed. The assessment and resulting RELATED SERVICES recommendations will help you effectively unlock the value of your The following services are available from Oracle Consulting Services: Oracle Hyperion Financial Management solution.

• Oracle Consulting Assessment for The objective is to ensure cohesive, best practice architectures spanning multiple Oracle Business Intelligence domains – that are unique and specific to your enterprise’s context. Applications • Oracle Consulting Migration for Exalytics for Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Essbase Service Benefits • Oracle Consulting Rapid Start for Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management Account Reconcilitations Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Assessment Service can help your organization:  Identify your most pressing issues: Pinpoint the changes which will yield the greatest impact.

 Reduce your cost of ownership: Improve application integration WHY ORACLE CONSULTIN G and application management to improve manageability, reliability • Leading Expertise: Oracle's own and to ultimately reduce your application management efforts. experts providing thought leadership for every Oracle solution  Leverage new functionality: Provide awareness of existing or new • Broad Coverage: “End-to-end” lifecycle functionality which can improve the functionality, efficiency and value services across the entire Oracle of your solution. product footprint Quickly adapt to change: Optimize your existing solution so that • Global Scale: 13,000 Oracle experts in  145 countries, serving over 20 million you can more easily adapt to your organization’s ongoing changes. users  Increase end-user and administrative effectiveness: Identify any • Unified Methodology: Based on industry standards, high quality results existing knowledge gaps amongst the user and/or administrators to across complex projects improve their skills and to eliminate their frustration. • Flexible Delivery: Onsite, offsite, and offshore, along with innovative solutions such as Expert Services and Architecture Services Requirements

Your organization will need to identify and engage key resources who have intimate familiarity and knowledge regarding your Oracle Hyperion solution. Oracle Consulting provides you with a methodology, approach and experts that will guide your team through the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Assessment process.

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