Analytic Vision

Company Background

CommScope is a global leader in connectivity solutions for communications networks. We provide infrastructure solutions for wireless, business enterprise, residential broadband and carrier wire line networks. CommScope is the behind-the-scenes connection that helps the world communicate — at work, at home and on the go. By committing to integrity, innovation, quality and performance and, by building these values into every CommScope transaction, we give our customers the power to help their customers communicate where, when and how they choose.

Business Challenges

• Hyperion Financial Management Consolidation solution for SAP lagging on version 4.05
• Desire to improve consolidation application performance and stability
• Need to optimize and performance tune consolidation business rules
• Need to improve ad-hoc Excel based analytics leveraging Hyperion SmartView for Excel
• Need for more robust report delivery and distribution via Hyperion Workspace
• Need to establish a development environment to test application updates and enhancements
• Need to leverage a more robust security capability, integrated with external security repository managed by IT
• Desire to remove Citrix from the Hyperion EPM deployment

Solution Implemented

Enterprise upgrade of the Hyperion Financial Management and FDM to 11 

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

Business Benefits

• Version 11 offered improved consolidation application performance and high, 24/7 availability 
• Performance Tuning with Version 11 offered significant performance gains
• SmartView 11 deployment to better leverage reporting integration with Microsoft Office
• Version 11 Workspace and Reporting Studio for report distribution and consumption
• Synchronized development and production instances for a best practices based development approach
• Integrated Security model leveraging Shared Services