Initially, I had in mind to write an analysis related to the HFM application settings. However, after such a huge delay, I think that I should describe what I experienced the first 3 months of 2014.
1. Proem
So, 2013 left our lived a few months ago and 2014 came in.
Santa Clause did his annual job and brought a lot of lovely presents and Oracle teams did their job and brought HFM version11.1.2.3, FDMEE and a whole set of new features which will improve our
applications.
The first time that I decided to postpone the publishing of
the first post of the year, I was engaged in the installation and configuration of HFM and
FDMEE in a 3-tier system.
I was amazed by the simplicity of the installer and how
smoothly the whole process was. I believe that key in the installation is to
read all the available documentation, spend time in designing the layout of the
environment based on the specification provided by Oracle and of course make
sure that Oracle approves the designs.
(To be honest, I read the documents twice and I am pretty
sure that I have missed a lot of points but I printed the installation list
proposed by Oracle in order to be sure that I have not missed anything. I did
the same during the design of the architecture in order to make sure that the
correct components were at the correct place. The worst part of the installation
process was the waiting period to receive the hardware. As soon as I got access to
the servers, it was a matter of two days to install and test the different
components. I admit that I did not spend time to optimize the system but that
was not part of the exercise since I built just a pilot system.)
3. Configuration of FDMEE
The second time that I decided to postpone the publishing of
the first post of the year, I was engaged in the configuration the FDMEE
application.
It is obvious that Oracle development team did a huge step
from FDM classic to FDMEE. FDMEE is the combination of FDM classic and ERPi
(ODI). FDMEE does not require installation on the application tier and uses
Jython instead of VB scripts. Additionally, FDMEE includes a new mapping type
which automates the “vlookup” mappings that we had to write in FDM classic and
the application is able to create native groups in Shared services in an attempt
to simplify the authentication task.
As a final note, please make sure that you patch the latest
available patch or you will miss essential functionality. The rest of the
configuration is as easy as described in the Oracle manual and not much
different from the configuration of FDM classic.
4. HFM application requirements
The third time that I decided to postpone the publishing of
the first post of the year, I was engaged in the writing the requirements of
the HFM application upgrade project.
We ended up with a 60-pages document which includes paragraphs related with the summary of changes, stakeholders, application purpose, application universe, reporting scenarios, report library, business target dates, submission process, consolidation mechanism etc.
Such tasks as requirements gathering prove why functional consulting
is so awesome!!!
5. Epilogue
I admit that I had in mind to update the blog much more
often but it seems that it is more important to experience some things before
writing them in a blog.
Waiting for your comments!! What did you do the first 3 months??
Cheers,
Thanos
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