2. About Amerigroup
Began as AMERICAID Community Care in 1994 to
meet the needs of families enrolled in publicly funded
health care programs.
Currently serving more than 2.7 million members in 13
states nationwide
#404 on the Fortune 500 (2010)
2012 Merger with WellPoint creates largest Medicaid
managed care organization in the country
Together with WellPoint’s affiliated health plans,
Amerigroup serves more than 4.5 million beneficiaries
of state-sponsored health plans in 20 states and is the
nation’s leading provider of health care solutions for
public programs.
3. About Edgewater Ranzal
15 Years
700+ clients
1000+ projects
Focus
Services
People
Methodology
Customers
Partnership
4. Full Spectrum of EPM/BI Services
Dashboards & Scorecards, Financial
Analytics & Reporting, Operational Analytics,
What-if Analysis, Query & Reporting, Visual
Exploration
Consolidation
Installation, Upgrades,
Migration, System
Monitoring, Backup and
Recovery, Disaster
Recovery, Load Testing,
Hardware Sizing, Exalytics
Benchmarking
Enterprise
Planning
Costing &
Profitability
Mgmt
Infrastructure
Data Integration, Financial Data
Management, Data Warehousing,
Master Data Management &DRM,
ETL Services, Automation
Strategic Finance, Planning,
Budgeting, Forecasting, Workforce
Planning, Capital Planning, Project
Financial Planning
Business
Intelligence
Data
Services
Project
Management
Training &
Support Services
Key Teach Course Delivery: Planning, Essbase,
Financial Reporting, Smart View, HPCM, HFM,
FDM, DRM, OBIEE
Custom Training Delivery: Process & Reporting
Project/Program Mgmt, EPM
Road Maps, Application
Reviews, Business
Requirements, Process
Change, Documentation
Support Services – Infrastructure &
Application Support Contracts
5. About Me
Oracle ACE – One of 29 in the world focused on BI
Partner with Oracle development on FDMEE
Over 12 years of experience across the EPM suite
● More than 35 implementations
Oracle certified for Hyperion Financial
Management – System 9 & Fusion 11
Integration Practice Director @ Edgewater Ranzal
– www.ranzal.com
www.FDMGuru.com
10. About FDM
End user friendly web interface that provides
directed workflow
Drill through capabilities for data investigation
Organization wide process monitoring &
auditing
Extensive automation capabilities using built-in
batch loader
Prepackaged target system integration
Mature product
11. FDM Workflow
Workflow Step
Tasks Performed
Import
Data is imported to FDM database
Mapping Tables are applied
Validate
Dataset is checked for any unmapped
members
Essbase Enhanced Validate*
Export
Mapped data exported to a flat file
Clear calc run in Essbase
Data is Loaded
Agg Calc is run in Essbase*
Check*
Post aggregated balances retrieved
from Essbase
13. About ERPi
“FDM 2.0” - The strategic direction of Oracle
● Now FDM Enterprise Edition (FDMEE)
Enables prebuilt direct connectivity for many Oracle
ERP systems & SAP
Enables drill through to the source data in the source
system – no data warehouse/staging needed
Enables metadata to be sourced from the source
system to update EPM applications
Provides the ability to write back budget data from
Planning and Essbase to the General Ledger
Integrated into WorkSpace
The use of ODI supports far larger data volumes
14. ERPi Architecture
FDM ERP Integrator
General Ledgers
Reporting
E-Business
Suite
E-Business
Suite
EPMA
Metadata & Data
Dimensions
& Hierarchies .
EPM
Apps
Oracle Data
Integrator
Shared
Staging
Tables
Fusion
Classic Apps:
Metadata & Data
Data
Oracle Data
Integrator
HFM
FR
Essbase
Planning
FDM
PeopleSoft
Smart
view
Strategic
FInance
Fact
Data
Drill /
Write
Back
Drill
SAP
File-based Data
Or SQL Pull
15. Prebuilt Source Systems Integrations
System
Version
EPM Version
Oracle eBusiness Suite
11.5.10 cu2
12
12.1.3
11.1.1.3+
11.1.1.3+
11.1.2.1+
PeopleSoft Financial
Management
9.0
9.1
11.1.1.3+
11.1.2.1+
PeopleSoft Commitment
Control
9.1
11.1.2.2+
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
9.0 Requires Tools 9.1
11.1.2.2+
Fusion Financials
11.1.2.1.501+
SAP R3 / ECC
4.7 / 6.0
11.1.2.1.501+
SAP BW
7.0+
11.1.2.3
PeopleSoft Human Capital
Management
9.0
9.1
11.1.2.0+
11.1.2.3
16. FDM with ERPi – The Best of Both Worlds
Direct connection to PeopleSoft
Drill through to PeopleSoft from Planning web
forms
● Including subledgers
Fully wrapped data integration cycle
● Automated and scheduled
● Targeted clears and conditional aggregations
● Data Quality Enhancements
17. Monthly Process
If applicable, update FDM & ERPi for new
Business Units
Enable processing
Set the list of PeopleSoft Business Units to
process
Set the time period to process
18. FDM Task Manager
Built in scheduling tool
Ability to schedule data integration process
● Every x seconds
● Every day at a set time
● Every x day of x month
Integration processed schedule to run every
day of the close at 9:00 AM*
19. Process Automation
Utilized the FDM batch loader
● Licensed as part of the FDM adaptor suite
Lights out execution of the workflow process
Able to trigger data load locations utilizing ERPi
Executes in parallel
No active process monitoring available
22. Essbase Clear Calcs
Essbase adaptor executes a clear calculation
using the Essbase API
Dynamic based on the point of view (Scenario,
Year, Period) being loaded
Execute targeted clears of the entities being
loaded for a given PS business unit
23. Conditional Aggregation
Essbase adaptor provides ability to execute
agg calcs following the load of a location
Executes the aggregation logic after each
location completes the load
Enhanced the process to run 1 aggregation
after all business units successfully loaded
● Execute a single consolidation for a range of periods
if multiple periods are loaded
