Analytic Vision

Company Background

Seven Hotel Brands including Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn.  Over 130 Million stays per year with over 645,000 rooms, 4,400 hotels in over 100 countries.

Business Challenges

• Large Hyperion Essbase Analytics deployment lagging on versions 7 and 9
• Desire to leverage Version 11 Workspace, Reporting Studio and SmartView for enhanced information delivery  on the Essbase Analytics Platform
• Limited Dashboard capabilities for Senior Finance executives
• Need to integrate Hyperion Financial Management version 11 for global deployment with Hyperion infrastructure
• Not able to integrate P&L and Balance Sheet Planning in Excel
• Hyperion Reporting Studio performance limitations

Solution Implemented

Enterprise upgrade of the Hyperion Essbase & EPM platform to version 11

• Oracle Hyperion Essbase Analytics 11
• Oracle Hyperion Reporting Studio 11
• Oracle Hyperion SmartView 11
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management 11
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management 11
   

Business Benefits

• Version 11 offered the latest, integrated reporting delivery solution via Workspace
• SmartView 11 deployment to better leverage reporting integration with Microsoft Office
• Integrate HFM version 11 with existing Hyperion infrastructure and shared services for user & security provisioning
• Synchronize development and production instances  of the Hyperion Essbase & EPM Suite