Top Gun 2007 Hyperion Smart for Essbase Michael Nader Sr. Product Manager Hyperion Solutions

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 2 CLASS PREP  Start in order: —Foundation Services —Administration Services —Analytic Services —Analytic Provider Services (APS) —Administration Console

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 3 FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION TAILORED APPLICATIONS FINANCIAL & OPERATIONAL REPORTING ANALYSIS BUDGETING AND PLANNING Hyperion Planning Hyperion Financial Management Hyperion Essbase Hyperion Financial Reporting Hyperion Interactive & Production Reporting  Hyperion Web Analysis Performance Visibility via Smart View

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 4 Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. | Company Confidential | Roadmap Details are Subject to Change 4 Advanced Office Integration  Excel —Forms —Ad-hoc —Functions —System 9 BI+ content  Word / PowerPoint / Outlook —Functions —System 9 BI+ content  Smart Tag alternative  System 9 BI + content —Financial Reports —Web Analysis —Interactive Reporting

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 5 Analytic Provider Services  Formerly – Analytic Services Smart View Provider  Replaces Analytic High Availability Services  Current capabilities: —Smart View communication —Java API —XMLA API —Completely rewritten per XMLA standard for Beckett —Viable interface into Analytic Services —JPivot, MS Reporting Services  Provides High Availability access to any tool that come through XMLA, Java (including ADM based)  JAPI —Stand alone.JAR deployment

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 6 Analytic Provider Services Java API Smart View Communication XMLA API High Availability / Failover Stand Alone or Clustered Data Source Analytic Services Analytic Services Analytic Services Analytic Provider Services Smart View Client BI+ Tools Partner/Custom XMLA Tools Partner/Custom Java Tools

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 7 Feature Highlights  Point of View (POV) —Toolbar —POV Manager  Smart View Toolbar  Functions —Multiple data sources —Integrated across Office suite  System 9 BI+ Integration  Updated styles —Precedence —Dirty cells  Data Adjustment  Scaling

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 8 General Efficiency Tips  Governing query requirements:  Navigating without data:  Using multiple sheets  Spreading Data

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 9 Smart View Configuration Three Easy Steps: 1.Add Smart View Provider. 2.Add Analytic Server to general Administration Services. 3.Add Analytic Server to Smart View Provider. 1.Local Essbase instance is autoconfigured

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 10 Formatting Tricks Formatting with style:  Capture data formats  Preserve Excel formats

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 11 Function Support  Available functions include HsGetValue and HsSetValue  Ability to combine or display Financial Management and Analytic Services data in one worksheet  Multi-data source calculations HFM Data Analytic Services Data

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 12 Query Designer  Cross-dimensional layout  Filtered selection —UDA —Attribute —Children —Descendants —Select by measure value Filter ([Product].levels(0).members, [Qtr1] <= 0.00) —Top/Bottom —Etc.

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 13 Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. | Company Confidential | Roadmap Details are Subject to Change Moving Data Across Office For example: 1.Start in Excel 2.Export data points to Word 3.Double-click data point in Word and move to Excel Features: Tool tips in Word and PPT Data points fully refreshable Linked to visualizations in HVE Document can be ed and linked queries and data points remain

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 14 Smart View Toolkit  Navigation  Member information queries  Direct member queries  Member property validation  Calculation and data submission

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 15 Functions of Note  HypQueryMembers —Executes the member selection query  HypIsUDA —Boolean check to see if member specified has a specific UDA  HypIsAttribute —Boolean check to see if member specified has a specific attribute  HypIsExpense —Boolean check to see if member specified has an Expense tag  HypConnected —Check to verify whether a sheet is currently connected  HypOtlGetMemberInfo —Query to find out the member comment, formula, UDA, Attribute

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 16 Functions of Note  HypFindMember —Retrieves member information like dimension, alias, generation and level names  HypBusinessRules —Uses a calculation script (or Business rule script) to initiate a calculation on the server  HypListBusinessRules —Lists all calc scripts present on the Analytic Server  HypMenuVCalculation —Opens the Smartview - Calculation dialog box  HypGetDataPoint —Retrieves member information for a single data cell  HypSetCellsDirty —Marks selected data range dirty for submit

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 17 New VBA Functions  HypVSetSubstitutionVariable  HypVGetSubstitutionVariable  HypIsDescendant  HypIsParent  HypGetChildren  HypGetParent  HypGetAncestor  HypExecuteQuery  HypCreateCalc  HypDeleteCalc  HypSetActiveConnection  HypConnectionExist

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 18 Creating a Highly Available Environment  Database clustering —Read Only —Query aware  Failover —User sessions are database specific – “sticky” —During failure, connection rerouted to active instance —Disable and enable data sources from UI or utility  Requirements —Licensed on Analytic Services Server —Analytic Services High Concurrency Option

Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. 19 Copyright © 2006, Hyperion. All rights reserved. | Company Confidential | Roadmap Details are Subject to Change 19 BI+ Content in Office