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Your Oracle 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 your business requirements may no longer be aligned with your current or future OPTIMIZE YOUR ORACLE ESSBASE SOLUTIONS WITH ORACLE requirements. Derive the highest level of business value and CONSULTING maximize the return on your investment by ensuring that your Oracle Essbase solutions evolve with your business.

KEY FEATURES The Solution – Oracle Consulting Assessment for Oracle Essbase • Proven methodology for rapid and effective application assessments Oracle Consulting can help you streamline your optimization efforts by providing a • Immediate benefits for your organization realistic assessment of the current state of your Oracle Essbase implementation. Utilizing our functional, integration and infrastructure expertise, this assessment • Executable roadmap for application optimization service evaluates the major functional and technical aspects of your Oracle Essbase solutions and business processes. Our assessment focuses on indentifying the gaps KEY BENEFITS between your current and future requirements and your current application • Identify solutions to your most pressing issues with your Oracle deployments. We follow a proven assessment methodology: Essbase Solution  Scope Definition: To ensure the most cost-effective approach, we work • Effectively leverage new and existing with you to determine exactly which application(s) and processes will be application functionality reviewed as part of the assessment. We provide your team an • Optimize your existing application assessment check-list. A typical assessment takes two (2) weeks but is infrastructure to ensure performance and reliability ultimately driven by the number and complexity of the solutions to be

• Derive the highest level of business reviewed. value from your solutions  Customer Questionnaires and Workshops: Based on the scope of the • Develop a roadmap for continuous assessment, we leverage our proprietary questionnaires in conjunction improvement with our onsite workshops to assess your solution’s current state. This is

RELATED PRODUCTS a “triage” exercise designed to identify and prioritize any perceived or Oracle Consulting Essbase Assessment existing solution challenges. The completed questionnaires in conjunction can also be leveraged with other Oracle EPM modules including: with the workshop output provide Oracle Consulting with the information • Planning Suite needed to develop an effective recommendation. • Oracle Hyperion Financial  Assessment Report: Based on the information gathered, Oracle Management Suite Consulting will produce an Assessment Report. The report details our • Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost findings, including any current challenges, gaps and configuration Management elements that may prevent you from realizing the full value of your Oracle

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Essbase solution. We identify high-impact areas and provide RELATED SERVICES recommendations to effectively address any application, integration or The following services are available infrastructure changes that could be deployed. The assessment and from Oracle Consulting Services: Oracleresulting Consulting recommendations will help you effectively unlock the value of • Oracle Consulting Assessment for your Oracle Essbase solution. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

• Oracle Consulting Migration for Exalytics for Oracle Hyperion Planning Service Benefits and Oracle Essbase

Oracle Essbase Assessment Service can help your organization:

 Identify your most pressing issues: Pinpoint the changes which will yield WHY ORACLE CONSULTIN G the greatest impact. • Leading Expertise: Oracle's own experts providing thought leadership  Reduce your cost of ownership: Improve application integration and for every Oracle solution. application management to improve manageability, reliability and to

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

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

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The Oracle Consulting team is focused exclusively on Oracle Technologies, and we have the experts that others turn to for leading practices in Oracle hardware and software implementations. We know how to best optimize your investment in Oracle products and can provide your business with tightly integrated, comprehensive, superior services throughout your ownership experience.

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