Summary list of new features in Hyperion EPM 11.1.2.3

Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.2.3

• Web form and grid usability enhancements:Save more POV settings in form definitions (show or hide dimensions and reorder them)
• Save POV members as favorites for easier access (no need to open the POV Member Selector panel every time)
• Support for dynamic POV memberlists
• Support for on-demand rules launched per form
• Other new HFM features:
• General UI improvements (POV and Member Selector settings persist across HFM modules)
• Security user access UI implemented in ADF
• HFM modules that are not used (for example Process Control and IC Transactions) can be disabled and thus hidden from the menus by administrators via the Module Configuration panel
• Audit log for differences after loading metadata
• LCM supports additional HFM artifacts: application, data, audit, process management, Extended Analytics templates

Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.3

• Support for ASO databases in Planning applications
• Support for flexible custom dimensions that may differ in each plan type
• Ability for end users to create dimension members on the fly (only in separate modules such as Project Financial Planning). This feature can be enabled or disabled per hierarchy.
• Outline Load Utility implemented in the web interface: allows metadata to be imported and exported from the Planning UI
• Access to Planning metadata in Smart View (add or update members, build hierarchies)
• Export/import Planning metadata and data to/from a relational database
• Task list visualizations for easier tracking (by task status, type, users etc.)
• Planning Cloud Service: Service to be released later this year. Based on Planning 11.1.2.3.

Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) 11.1.2.3 and beyond

• FDM rebranded as Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition (FDMEE)
• FDMEE combines classic FDM and ERP Integrator into a single product built on the ERPI platform (ODI installed and configured automatically)
• 11.1.2.3 will be the terminal release for classic FDM – new customers may only buy FDMEE
• FDMEE will be released in phases (11.1.2.3 GA, 11.1.2.3 Patch Set 1 and Patch Set 2)
• Core FDM features present in GA version but features like full HFM adapter functionality will follow later in PS1 and 2.
• Some functions to be introduced in PS1 and PS2:
  • Scripting in Jython
  • Integration with DRM
  • Data synchronization between all EPM application types
• HSF adapter
• FDMEE UI is integrated in EPM Workspace

Financial Reporting 11.1.2.3

• Old dog learns new tricks – FR reports and books to be supported on mobile devices via native browsers on each platform:
  • iPhone and iPad (iOS5 and 6)
  • Android phones and tablets (Android 3.x and 4.x)
• Mobile support allows read-only access with POV selection, prompts etc. but no authoring or scheduling features.
• Improved Smart View support (full FR formatting available when using Function Grids in Word and Excel)
• Create a cover page before TOC in report books

Smart View

• Upcoming SV features (some already present in 11.1.2.2.310):
• OBIEE functionality added (view created content, program OBIEE objects in VB etc.)
• Performance improvements
• Improved ad-hoc functionality: change POV on the grid, perform operations on multiple cells etc.
• Expanded VBA toolkit

Hyperion Strategic Finance 11.1.2.3

• Smart View functionality greatly extended to provide full MS Office integration (complements the HSF Windows client)

Disclosure Management 11.1.2.2.300

• Note: Release already available.
• New publishing options: PDF generation, EDGAR-ready HTML output
• Variables for automating common text and TOC items
• Several UI improvements in Report Manager

Financial Close Management 11.1.2.3

• Lots of new features in ARM (Account Reconciliation Manager):
• Advanced user assignments (backup assignments, team/group assignments etc.)
• Extended Auto Reconciliation module
• Improved data load functions
• UI improvements

Hyperion Profitability And Cost Management (HPCM) 11.1.2.3

• Addition of Calculation Rules for combining existing model artifacts, assignment rules and drivers into a single function
  • Simplifies definition of assignment logic for groups of sources
• HPCM is certified on Exalytics since 11.1.2.2.350
• Smart View integration for drill-through links and custom queries to Excel

~ by Eric Helmer on April 26, 2013.