This tutorial covers installing and configuring Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
Approximately 90 minutes.
Oracle Financial Management Analytics provides executive access to a unified financial and nonfinancial picture of the performance of the organization through a series of dashboards. Prebuilt consolidation dashboards display key performance indicators, reports, and metrics by using data from EPM System applications. The dashboards enable users to analyze the data in an accessible format, according to various business and financial scenarios.
In this tutorial, you install and configure Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
The following is a list of software version requirements for Oracle Financial Management Analytics:
Before starting this tutorial, you should:
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Have installed Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.5 and its components. |
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Have installed the Financial Management client and the Financial Management ADM driver on the same server as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. |
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Have installed Shared Services. |
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Have created the Financial Management application that you want to analyze with Oracle Financial Management Analytics. |
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Have registered the Financial Management application in the Financial Management client on the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition server. |
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Have ensured that the administrative user for Oracle Financial Management Analytics has write access to the directory that is used for the installation and has administrative rights to all associated software. |
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Have created the FCC_OFMA table. See the "Creating the FCM_OFMA Table for Financial Close Management for Oracle Databases Only" section of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Analytics Administrator Guide for details.(Financial Close Management dashboards only.) |
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Have created the required FCM database views. For details, see "Setting Financial Close Management Views on Oracle Databases Only" section in the Oracle Financial Management Analytics Administrator Guide for details. (Financial Close Management dashboards only.) |
In this topic, you install Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
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Download and unzip the Oracle Financial Management Analytics installer files from Oracle edelivery.
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Double-click setup.exe. Note: there are separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit installations. Select the installer version that is appropriate for your environment. In this tutorial, you install the 32-bit version.
Oracle Universal Installer is displayed.
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Review the Welcome panel, and click Next.
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On the Select Installation Type panel, select Complete, and click Next. The complete installation automatically installs the following components of the application:
Note: English is the default language for Oracle Financial Management Analytics. If you want to use a different language, click Product Languages. For details, see "Setting the Application Language" in the Oracle Financial Management Analytics Administrator Guide.
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On the Specify Home Details panel, enter the following details for the installation, and click Next.
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On the Summary panel, review the components to be installed, and click Install. Oracle Universal Installer installs the product with the specified options.
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On the End of Installation panel, confirm that the installation was successful, and click Exit.
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At the exit prompt, click Yes. You successfully installed Oracle Financial Management Analytics. |
In this topic, you run the configuration utility to configure Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
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Select Start, then All Programs, then Oracle Financial Management Analytics, and then Configuration Utility. Oracle Financial Management Analytics Configuration Utility is displayed.
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In the Catalog And Repository Details section, click Browse next to the Catalog Location field. The Select Catalog Location dialog box is displayed.
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Select FinancialManagementAnalytics, and click OK.
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In the Catalog And Repository Details section, click Browse next to the Repository Location field. The Select RPD File dialog box is displayed.
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Select FinancialManagementAnalytics.rpd, and click OK.
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In the BI Admin Server Details section, complete these fields for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition:
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In the HFM Server Details section, complete these fields for Financial Management:
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Click Next. The Configuration Utility connects to the specified Financial Management application and reads the dimension hierarchy information. This information is used to configure the dashboards in the next several steps.
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On the Entity dimension screen, perform the following actions:
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On the Account dimension screen, perform the following actions:
Note: For the Performance Indicator account group, the accounts that you select are displayed in the Associate Account drop-down list on the next screen. You must select four accounts. If you select more than four, the additional selections are not displayed in the report.
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On the Performance Indicators screen, perform the following actions:
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On the Product Dimension screen, perform the following actions:
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On the Currency Constant Rate Dimension screen, perform the following actions:
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On the Default Dimension Member screen, set the default point of view (POV) for the dashboards by performing the following actions:
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Complete the following information to enable connection between Financial Management and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition:
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On the Summary screen, review your selections, and click Submit.
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Verify that all changes were completed successfully, and click OK. Note: This operation may take several minutes as the services are restarted. Oracle Financial Management Analytics Configuration Utility closes.
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After uploading the repository to the BI Server, you must open the repository in online mode and define the connection parameters in the Oracle Financial Management Analytics repository (RPD) file to enable the connection between Oracle Financial Management Analytics and the Financial Management application.
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Select Start, then All Programs, then Oracle Business Intelligence, and then BI Administration. The Oracle BI Administration Tool is displayed.
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Select File, then Open, and then Online.
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Perform the following actions:
The repository is opened in online mode.
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In the Physical layer panel, expand HFM, and double-click on Connection Pool.
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At the prompt to check out connection pool, click Yes.
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In the URL field, enter the Financial Management server or cluster name and the application adm:native:HsvADMDriver:<HFM Server or Cluster>:<HFM Application Name>
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In the "Connection properties" section, perform the following actions:
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In this topic, you set the Financial Management application name in the RPD file.
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In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, on the Physical layer, expand HFM, and double-click HFM Application.
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At the prompt to check out HFM Application, click Yes. The Cube Table dialog box is displayed.
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In the External Name field, enter the name of your Financial Management application, leave all other settings at their default values, and click OK. Note: If your application name contains restricted characters, you can use the string “OFMA”.
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After you install Oracle Financial Management Analytics, the custom dimension names in the Oracle Financial Management Analytics repository files are displayed as placeholders, such as Custom1, Custom2, Custom3, and Custom4. If your Financial Management application uses aliases for the custom dimensions, you must rename these placeholder values to reflect the custom dimensions in your application (for example, “Products," “Customers," or “Sales Channels”).
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In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, on the Physical layer, perform the following actions:
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At the prompt to check out Custom1, click Yes. The Physical Dimension - Custom1 dialog box is displayed.
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Perform the following actions:
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Expand the renamed Custom1 dimension to display all members in the hierarchy, and double-click Custom1.
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At the prompt to check out Custom1, click Yes. The Physical Hierarchy - Custom1 dialog box is displayed.
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Select the Levels tab, and perform the following actions:
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In the expanded Custom1 dimension list, double-click the first column in the database hierarchy. The Physical Dimension - Custom1 dialog box is displayed.
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At the prompt to check out Custom1 ClassType, click Yes. The Physical Cube Column dialog box is displayed.
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Perform the following actions:
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Repeat steps 7, 8, and 9 for each column in the custom dimension.
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Repeat steps 1 through 10 for each additional custom dimension; for example, Custom2, Custom3, and Custom4.
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Click Check In Changes to check in your selections.
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Select File, and then Save to save your selections.
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In this topic, you use the Oracle BI Administration Tool to set the default member values in the online
repository file (RPD).
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In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, on the Physical layer, perform the following actions:
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At the prompt to check out Account, click Yes. The Physical Dimension - Account dialog box is displayed.
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Select the Hierarchies tab, and perform the following actions:
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Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 for the remaining dimensions.
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Click Check In Changes to check in your selections.
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Select File, and then Save to save your selections.
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Select All Programs, then Oracle Business Intelligence, and then Stop BI Services.
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At the prompt, enter your Oracle WebLogic admin user name and password, and press Enter. Oracle BI services are stopped.
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Select All Programs, then Oracle Business Intelligence, and then Start BI Services. Oracle BI services are started. The connection pool, custom dimension names, and other configuration details are updated. |
After installation and configuration, you access Oracle Financial Management Analytics through Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
In this topic, you access Oracle Financial Management Analytics in a web browser.
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In a browser, enter the URL for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The URL is in the format http://server name:port number/analytics, where:
The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Sign-In screen is displayed.
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Perform the following actions:
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is displayed.
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Select Dashboards, and then Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
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Verify that the Oracle Financial Management Analytics dashboard tabs are displayed. You successfully installed and configured Oracle Financial Management Analytics.
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In this tutorial, you have learned how to:
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