You've heard all the benefits of moving to the cloud — no upfront hardware or software costs, less pressure on IT, no annual maintenance costs, and more. If the task of migrating your Hyperion environment to the cloud is what's stopping you from enjoying all these perks, then this is the webinar for you. Oracle ACE Brian Marshall will help ease your concerns about migrating your Hyperion Planning environment to the cloud by sharing migration best practices and a success story.

1. BRIAN MARSHALL
PRACTICE DIRECTOR, PLANNING & ESSBASE
Sending Hyperion Planning
to the Cloud

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AGENDA Introduction / Why PBCS?1
Plan Types2
Calculations3
Load Rules4
Reports Scripts5
Security6
Automation7
Testing8
Case Study9

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About US-Analytics
Dallas-based, Hyperion-focused for over 15 years with continuous
business growth
 We are nimble and respond quickly to customers’ needs
 Over 500 clients and over 1,000 successful Hyperion engagements
 Seasoned business and technical acumen with EPM and BI initiatives
 Over 65 professionals with 12+ years each of Hyperion experience and
certifications
 Active leaders in the Oracle community
 Founder of Hyperion Professional Women's Forum, advisory board leadership, conference
presentations, webinars, EPM Speaker of the Year at Kaleidoscope in 2015 and 2014
 Corporate culture of integrity with 100% customer commitment
 Managed services
 Managed services team is Dallas based, each with 10+ years of experience
 Proven processes for all aspects of managed services

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5. ABOUTUS-ANALYTICS
Managed Services
Upgrades & Migrations
Implementations
Infrastructure
Process & Advisory
Services
Big Data
Master Data Management
Business Analytics
Financial Close & Consolidation
Planning & Forecasting
Solutions
Data IntegrationTraining
Accolades
– Original Oracle Hyperion and Pillar Partner
– Oracle Hyperion Financial Management 11
– Oracle Hyperion Planning 11
– Oracle Essbase 11
– Oracle Data Relationship Management 11
2013, 2014,
2015
2015 Oracle TOLA
EPM Partner of the Year

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Brian Marshall
Introductions
 Director of Planning and Essbase Practice
 15+ years IT and EPM/BI Experience
 13+ years with US-Analytics
 100+ projects with US-Analytics
 Presented at Kaleidoscope 2010-2016 and various regional
events
 Frequent blogger at HyperionEPM.com

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Why PBCS?
 Initial up-front cost greatly reduced
▶ No hardware purchase costs
▶ No software purchase costs (only subscription cost)
 Less IT involvement necessary
▶ IT is already overtaxed — let’s take one thing off their plate
 Total cost of ownership is lower vs. on-premises Hyperion Planning
▶ No hardware maintenance costs
▶ Limited IT-related costs
▶ No annual software maintenance costs
▶ No upgrades required every few years
 All of the great functionality of Hyperion Planning

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Which PBCS?
 Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS)
▶ 3 BSO Custom Plan Types
▶ 3 ASO Custom Plan Types
▶ 1 Consolidated Reporting Cube
▶ $120/user/month
 Enterprise Planning Cloud (E-PBCS)
▶ 3 BSO Custom Plan Types
▶ 3 ASO Custom Plan Types
▶ 1 Consolidated Reporting Cube
▶ Pre-Built Workforce Planning
▶ Pre-Built Capital Planning
▶ Pre-Built Project Planning
▶ $250/user/month

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What Version of Planning?
 11.1.2.1+
▶ LCM should migrate much of your application
▶ We’ll cover the basics of what will and won’t make the trip
 Prior to 11.1.2.1
▶ Not currently supported by Oracle
▶ Recommended path is to upgrade the application prior to
moving to PBCS

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Migrating Plan Types
 Evaluate your existing application and determine how many
Plan Types must be migrated
 Are you running any of the modules like Workforce, Capex,
or PFP?
 Do you have more than 3 BSO Plan Types in total?
 If you have 3 BSO Plan Types (including modules) or less and 3
ASO Plan Types or less, you can proceed with PBCS
 If you have more than 3 BSO Plan Types, you have two options:
▶ Convert some Plan Types to ASO
▶ Consolidate Plan Types

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Calculations
 Business Rules
▶ Do you use Calculation Manager or Business Rules Server?
▶ Calculation Manager
‒ LCM will take care of everything
▶ Business Rules Server
‒ Convert to Calculation Manager prior to the LCM export
‒ Manually convert each Business Rule (requires that each rule be manually re-
attached to forms and menus)
 Calculation Scripts
▶ Will not import via LCM, as Calculation Scripts are not
supported in PBCS
▶ Manual conversion to Business Rules
▶ ASO scripts executed in MaxL need to be migrated to
Calculation Manager

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Load Rules
 Load Rules no longer exist in PBCS
 Evaluate each Load Rule and determine the best
replacement available
▶ FDMEE (PBCS)
▶ FDMEE (on-premises)
▶ Native Essbase Format

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Report Scripts
 Like Load Rules, Report Scripts no longer exist
in PBCS
 Evaluate each Report Script and determine the
best replacement available:
▶ Use the native PBCS utilities to produce exports of data
▶ Use Business Rules with the DATAEXPORT command to
produce flat files that can be executed by EPMAutomate
▶ Use FDMEE to produce a flat file

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Financial Reports
 If all of your reports are based on Planning
connections, the migration should be handled
primarily using LCM
 If any of your reports are based on Essbase
connections, the reports will need to be recreated
from scratch
 Security will likely need to be rebuilt either way

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Security
 Logins
▶ If your IT infrastructure can support it, PBCS supports
authentication with Active Directory
▶ If not, you will have to create all of your users in the admin
console
 Permissions
▶ Once your users have been added to the system, you will need
to convert your old security
▶ This is a relatively manual process that can be greatly assisted
through the use of Excel and many of the “old tricks” used
with on-premises Planning
 Good time to revisit security

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Automation
 Automation will likely be the area requiring the
most redevelopment as you migrate to the cloud
 Evaluate your current processes
▶ Metadata
▶ Data
▶ Batches and Scheduling

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Testing
 Make sure to allocate plenty of time to train your
users on using PBCS (it’s not that different… but it’s
still different)
 As with any project, specifically a migration, be
sure to have a plan for testing
 Don’t assume any functionality will “just work” —
test it all!

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SERVICE
SOLUTION
INDUSTRY
Business ChallengeCase
Study
Cloud Migration
Enterprise Planning
Cloud
Oil and Gas
Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, WPX
Energy, Inc. is a petroleum and natural gas
exploration company with core acreage in
North Dakota’s Williston Basin and New
Mexico’s San Juan Basin. Having been spun
off from Williams, WPX inherited a variety
of Hyperion applications, including HFM,
FDM, Planning, and Essbase.
In need of an upgrade, they were at a
crossroads between continuing with on-
prem products or moving to the cloud.
With an IT strategy favoring the cloud,
Planning and Essbase had to be converted
and migrated. This meant consolidating
three applications into an EPBCS
application.

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SERVICE
SOLUTION
INDUSTRY
SolutionCase
Study
Cloud Migration
Enterprise Planning
Cloud
Oil and Gas
US-Analytics was able to successfully
rationalize and consolidate two existing
Planning applications and one Essbase
application into a single EPBCS application.
This included:
• Migrating Planning using LCM
• Manually converting Essbase into a BSO
Plan Type
• Rebuilding automation without SQL-
based Essbase load rules
• Implementing external security with
Active Directory
• Extensive testing of the new application

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SERVICE
SOLUTION
INDUSTRY
Results and ChallengesCase
Study
Cloud Migration
Enterprise Planning
Cloud
Oil and Gas
The final product is a cloud-based planning
system that interfaces with on-prem
products like HFM. The migration was not
without challenges:
• Cloud-based FDMEE had serious
performance challenges with 20 years
of data
• Existing users of the Essbase Add-In or
Smart View for Essbase had to transition
to Smart View for Planning

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Q & A

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Check Out Our Blogs
▶ www.us-analytics.com/blog
▶ www.hyperionepm.com

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