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Understanding EPM Success

A Meme or Thought Process

In expending capital for the purpose of performance management, create an electronic  representation of enterprise activity that may be useful for decisive action. Such mimetic expenditures are rarely purely the expression of genius; The knowledge or skill gained through involvement, participation or exposure to enterprise performance management is a lever for generating a sufficiency of return upon the expended capital. Simply, use a proven thought process to produce success in action.

A Methodology

The thought process of EPM is not exclusively of finance, operations or information technology. Each generates some degree of valence that should be factored into corporate EPM strategy.

Adopting A Framework For EPM Success

A value of partnering with an Oracle is the accretion of leading practices for the creation of enterprise value, in excess of costs of implementation. After the jump, a summary of The Path To EPM Success, An Oracle White Paper designed to stimulate thought process towards creating long-term success in EPM centers.

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Integration Points for OBI and EPM

Oracle released an Integration Roadmap for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System which describes Integration Points for :

  1. Oracle BI EE
  2. BI Publisher
  3. EPM Workspace
  4. Essbase Server
  5. Essbase Studio
  6. Financial Reporting

The format is columnar by:

I have release… | I want to… | Supported versions | Links to documentation

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tips & tricks

EPM System Infrastructure Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks are quite useful; For now, they are numbered 1-72, 73-102 and 103+. Your Oracle Partner or Oracle Support may be able to put you on an email distribution to get updates as they become available; otherwise, check for additions in the resource library.

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discover least utilized wireless channels

Does the wireless network cut out or have other issues during periods of peak utilization? For example, do access issues pop up on Saturday mornings, after school and in the evenings? It may help to check if more than one network is attempting to use the same wireless channel. Install WiFi Radar from the Ubuntu Software Centre. Scan for the least utilized wireless channel. Enjoy.

steps

Begin by installing WiFi Radar in Ubuntu 12.10
sudo apt-get install wifi-radar
root is required for effective use
sudo wifi-radar
Determine if multiple wireless networks are configured to use the same channel.
Switch the wireless network to an unused channel.
Enjoy.

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start virtual machine on ESXi via ssh

ssh control of vm on ESXi 5 host

Start or control a virtual machine on ESXi host via command line from Linux using ssh into the ESXi host.

steps

Begin by listing virtual machines
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Determine current state of the virtual machine
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate vmid#
Start the virtual machine
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on vmid#
List available methods
vim-cmd vmsvc

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professional services description

As a resource for your company, I:

  • Use extensive experience of applications administration and development in a “Fortune 10” setting to make performance management decision systems work.
  • Demonstrate deep competence in technology to meet the needs of the business.
  • Am effective installing Oracle EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) 11.1.1.3, 11.1.2.1 and 11.1.2.2+ systems.
  • Am experienced in upgrading and migrating Hyperion System 9 and System 11 enterprise applications to the current release.
  • Am experienced in building, maintaining and patching Oracle EPM systems.

 


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