Analytic Vision

Company Background

Exide Technologies, with operations in 80 countries and fiscal 2009 net sales of approximately $3.3 billion, is one of the world's largest producers, distributors and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. The Company's four global business divisions – Industrial Energy Americas, Industrial Energy Europe, Transportation Americas, and Transportation Europe – provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.

Business Challenges

• Experiencing intermittent performance issues  with Hyperion Planning
• European Subsidiary’s Planning application was not optimally designed  for best performance
• Desire to improve performance & delivery of Hyperion Financial Reports
• Need to establish a synchronized development environment for a best practices approach to development
• Need to establish a roadmap for upgrade to version 11

Solution Implemented

Enterprise Design and Infrastructure Review.  Performance Tuning and Optimization

• Oracle Hyperion Planning  9
• Oracle Hyperion Reporting Studio 9
• Oracle Hyperion Essbase 9
• Oracle Hyperion SmartView 9
   

Business Benefits

• Technical review lead to fundamental changes in the Hyperion environment focused on optimizing performance
• Simplified the Hyperion architecture and tuned the environment , including reducing the instances of the core services running across the deployment
• High, 24/7 availability 
• Installed and configured a synchronized development environment for testing application updates and managing the application life cycle
• Load tested entire deployment to ensure future scalability