New & Emerging _ Soner Bekir _ The 5 most common pitfalls when implementing EPM Suite.pdf

The
5
most
common
pi.alls
when

implemen2ng
EPM
Suite…and
how

to
avoid
them

Soner
Bekir

The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof

About
me

•  22
years
of
varied
IT
Experience

•  7
years
implemen>ng
Hyperion
environments

•  5
years
in
EMEA,
2
years
in
APAC

•  No
func>onal
knowledge
to
speak
of

•  Oﬃcially
(if
there
is
such
a
thing)
an
EPM

Technical
Consultant


A
show
of
hands

•  How
many
group
finance
oriented
staff?

•  How
many
IT
Technical
staff?

•  How
many
Func>onal
consultants?

•  How
many
Oracle
staff?

•  How
many
people
in
the
wrong
session?


Another
show
of
hands

•  Anyone
here
who
is
planning
on
implemen>ng

an
EPM
environment,
but
hasn’t
done
so
yet?

•  Anyone
here
on
a
pre-‐System
11
environment

looking
to
upgrade?

•  Anyone
on
EPM
11.1.2
?


Ques>ons

•  Welcome
at
any
>me
–
just
grab
my
aYen>on

•  Does
anyone
have
a
ques>on
they
would
like

to
see
answered
in
this
session?


The
Art
of
EPM
War

If
ignorant
both
of
your
enemy
and
yourself,
you

are
certain
to
be
in
peril

Sun
Tzu


What’s
the
Goal?

•  Project
should
be
delivered
on
>me/budget

•  Environment
should
perform
well

•  Stability
should
be
good

•  Availability
should
be
good

•  Users
should
be
happy


No.
1
-‐
The
clue
is
in
the
name

Enterprise
Performance
Management

•  Not
“run
it
on
my
laptop”
performance

management
or
Hyperion
Enterprise
v4.0

•  Needs
lots
of
resource(s)
to
run
well….


EPM
Install
Guide


Sizing

•  Art
or
Science?

•  No
subs>tute
for
stress
tests

•  Plaeorm
is
a
marriage,
sofware
is
a
ﬂing

•  Budget
for
life>me
of
environment

•  Choose
the
right
plaeorm
for
you


No.
2
–
“What
do
you
mean
90-‐days
to

get
an
environment
we
can
use?”

Mee;ngs
are
indispensable
when
you
don’t

want
to
do
anything

John
Kenneth
Galbraith
-‐
economist


Corporate
IT

•  The
4
p’s

–  Planning
“Surprise
–
we
bought
a
business
cri>cal

applica>on”

–  Procurement
“What
do
you
mean
it
takes
30
days

to
buy
some
servers?”

–  Procedures
“Do
we
really
need
management

sofware”

–  Policies
“Company
policies
dictate
that
nothing

that
does
anything
useful
should
work”


Reality
check

•  90
days

•  Group
Policies
can
cost
you
tens
of
thousands

in
consultancy
&
mee>ngs

•  List
of
what
to
order
–
Catch-‐22

•  Death
by
mee>ngs
(minutes?)


No.
3
–
“Yes,
I
can
install
it
on

anything,
but
anything
is
not

supported”

Two
things
are
inﬁnite:
the
universe
and
human

stupidity;
and
I’m
not
sure
about
the
universe

Albert
Einstein


Choices

•  Plaeorm
&
Sofware

–  Now
+
3
Years

–  Server
Opera>ng
Systems

–  Database
Choices

–  Oﬃce
Produc>vity
Suite
Choices

–  Browser
Choices

–  Client
Opera>ng
System
Choices


KISS
Methodology
in
design

•  If
80%
of
the
user
community
use
it,
it’s

probably
been
tested

•  Be
the
ﬁrst,
be
the
worst
(especially
for

upgrades)
–
have
a
really
good
reason

•  Just
because
you
can,
doesn’t
mean
you

should


No.
4
–
“What
do
you
mean
on-‐going

maintenance?”

It
is
the
neglect
of
;mely
repair
that
makes

rebuilding
necessary

Richard
Whately
–
1826
Logician


No.
4
–
“What
do
you
mean
on-‐going

maintenance?”

•  The
3
P’s
–
Patching,
Patching
&
Patching

•  Clean
it
up
or
slow
it
down

•  DP
(always
beYer
than
DR)


See
Point
1

•  Plan
&
Budget
for
maintenance

•  Communicate
your
cri>cal
periods

Issues
caused
by
normal
IT
maintenance
is
the

biggest
single
cause
of

down;me
for
all
the

EPM
environments
we
support

Soner
Bekir
-‐
Infratects


No.5
–
“and
here’s
another
thing
we

forgot…”

•  Access
Methods
–
Web,
Smartview,
Citrix

•  User
Loca>ons
–
Time-‐zones/network

•  Support
–
users,
IT,
func>onal
administrators

•  Training
-‐
users,
IT,
func>onal
administrators


The
end
is
nigh

•  Involve
IT
early
and
start
the
design
process
as

soon
as
you
have
commiYed
to
the
sofware

•  Consider
the
life>me
of
the
environment,
how

it
will
be
used
and
how
it
may
grow
&
change

when
sizing
it

•  Make
mainstream
choices
that
ﬁt
your

corporate
IT
competencies


The
end
is
nigher

•  Communicate
your
ﬁnancial
repor>ng

calendar
and
work
out
when
your

environment
is
used

•  Build
a
maintenance
calendar
around
your

ﬁnancial
repor>ng
calendar

•  Map-‐out
your
support
organisa>on
and
work

on
your
training
plan

•  Budget
for
everything!!!


Ques>ons?


Many
Thanks

Ques>ons
(if
you
have
any)
can
be
sent
to

soner.bekir@infratects.com


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