Saturday, 9 November 2013

..HFM project steps

     Hi all,
    The topic that I had in mind the last two weeks is related with the question of how to build the best project plan for a Hyperion project (HFM or Essbase). I believe that this is a question that most of the consultants have at least one time in their life after completing 4 or 5 Hyperion projects.
    Based on a my experience, the best approach to build a project is: 
  1. Build pilot environment. 
  2. Identify the stakeholders.
  3. Define the purpose of application
  4. Define the tasks of the application
  5. Build  a report library for all the reports that the stakeholders wish to create from the application
  6. Identify the business processes that are used by the business users
  7. Create, identify and agree application’s requirements
  8. Build the infrastrucure
  9. Build the application!
  10. Train users
  11. Build the reports
  12. Migrate data and start testing the new application
  13. Go live

More analysis will come… however today I have visitors so this post will be short.

Since not many of you send comments, please answer the poll.

Regards,

Thanos


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4 comments:

  1. hari22 March 2014 at 07:37

    Hi Thanos,

    Could you please share more details on this post.

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  2. Thanos23 March 2014 at 11:03

    Hi Hari,

    What do you mean about more details?

    Based on my experience, every project is different and the tasks of each one of the mentioned steps depends on the nature and the volume of the project.

    Regards,

    Thanos

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  3. layal17 July 2014 at 09:57

    Hi Thanos,

    Thank you for this knowledge sharing especially on HFM dimensions (your other posts, on Value and scenario dimension), it was very helpful, yet i hope some day i will share something that i know better ;)


    BR,

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  4. Thanos24 July 2014 at 10:13

    Hi BR,

    Please feel free to start commenting and challenging my posts...

    Helping the Hyperion community and myself to improve does not always mean that you need to share new knowledge... but also challenge the existing ideas and approaches.

    Looking forward,

    Regards,

    Thanos

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