With the Hyperion suite “on premise” Performance Management consultants used to create different separate application modules: HFM for the consolidated statements; Planning, with the Essbase engine, for the Budget and Reporting; just to stay on the main ones. In the consulting team, the consolidated senior consultant and the senior reporting and budgeting consultant spoke different … Read More
Consulting
Discovering EPMs status
For the period of December 2019 / January 2020, looking at the financial closing processes of the end of the year, Experlab proposes an assessment meeting where to analyze the following areas: Existing applications: Applications ability to support the Closing process; Level of user skills in the use of applications; Needs for application new developments … Read More
An EPM system for the CFO
At the Oracle Cloud Day summit on November 5th in Milan we will be pleased to present how an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) system can support the various financial closing processes. ExperLab consultants, product experts and experts in different areas of management control, will show the strengths of Oracle FCCS and PBCS applications in terms … Read More
Ready to Oracle Cloud Day
ExperLab will be present at the Oracle Modern Business Summit scheduled in Milan on November 5th. We will talk about our implementations on the Cloud Performance Management tools: Oracle FCCS; Oracle PBCS; Oracle EPRCS. making all the insights on the development project phases. We are available to meet controllers, CFO and IT Directors, to talk about: New … Read More
Looking at closing FY19
ExperLab proposes assessment sessions in preparation for the closing of the consolidated financial statements at 31.12.2019. In these sessions the following are presented: – The functionality of Oracle HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) and Oracle FCCS (Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service) products; – The strengths of each of the two solutions and the identification of … Read More
ExperLab Q3 2019 Report
ExperLab is increasingly asserting itself as an Oracle Partner for the development of new Cloud Performance Management applications. To date it manages seven new cloud product implementations (mainly Fccs but also Pbcs), all started in the year 2019. And it keeps a dozen new developments, support and application maintenance on traditional “on-premise” applications active. In … Read More
Statutory vs. Managerial
In a Planning & Budgeting project view we typically talk about: A managerial / destination income statement; A data entry stage for all the measures involved into the budget process; A phase of calculating the Sales, Opex, Capex, HR budgets; Different dimensions and cubes analysis involved; Allocation drivers and standard or complex calculation algorithms. … Read More
FCCS project approach
Ready to share ideas and best practices with customers who have an HFM at home. Goal: share with HFM experts the roadmaps for the implementation of FCCS, with a focus on these aspects: 1- Start from “SAMPLE” application / from new application; 2- Management of metadata on excel; 3- Native functions of the chart of … Read More
IT managers and EPM Cloud
2019 spring era. The advantage brought by the technology in EPM Cloud is becoming really tangible: we see it in the interest that the CIOs of the companies we visit show when we make our presentations of the transition from “on-premise” applications to applications in Cloud. We see a lot of curiosity and an active … Read More
The winning EPM project
Ability to transfer skills and knowledge to key users: competence, confidence in the product, perception of this as a “friend” support and not an opponent, full committment in its use. It’s the job of a good senior consultant. The ability of an application to follow a finance process and the technical and functional expertise of … Read More