donated the software to meet those
needs,” Head said. Hyperion and Dorothy Njobvu Kanjautso
was able to open a school in
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Answerthink also donated consult- her village with a loan from
ing services. Opportunity International.
Hyperion, which was acquired by
Oracle in April, donated a full suite
of BI products to Opportunity International, including Oracle Hyperion
Essbase, Oracle Hyperion System 9,
Financial Data Quality Management,
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting and Oracle Hyperion Visual
Explorer.
Hyperion also donated its Web
Analysis software, which Opportunity International will develop in
2008 as a GUI that will let users
view data in a way that makes sense
to them.
In 2005, when Opportunity Inter- reports and analysis using different “We had two challenges in the
national received the software from Hyperion tools. manual system,” Head said. “First,
Hyperion, Head focused on building Head said the new software has we collected a large amount of
Essbase applications, migrating his- helped Opportunity International financial and operations data. We
toric data and loading current data. automate a number of tasks, includ- had it sitting there—a wealth of
In 2006, Head focused on generating ing the tracking of financial data. information—but [didn’t have] the
tools to structure the data, to aggregate it and disaggregate it in ways
that we wanted to. The second challenge was getting data from various source systems. Getting data
from 45 partners was a tortured
process—very manual, very labor-intensive.”
Tools of intelligence
Client Impact Information Management System Uses information gathered from
simple, structured interviews to develop powerful statistical database; CIIMS data is used
to measure long-term benefits of programs, identify funding opportunities, and customize
products and services to better meet needs of clients
Oracle Hyperion Essbase DBMS that provides a multidimensional database platform to
build analytic applications; product name is derived from Extended Spread Sheet database
Oracle Hyperion System 9 Financial Data Quality Management Increases visibility into numbers by allowing users to access data contained in Financial Data Quality
Management; provides global point of view for Scenario/Period; allows multiple integrations
per application or data repository
Hyperion System 9 Financial Management Intercompany Transaction Adapter
Allows end users to load inter-company transactions
Head said his first task was to
find a better way to get data into
a central data repository. His team
used Essbase to build a number of
applications that allowed users to
analyze and report on data.
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Software that includes support for SAP Business
Warehouse, XMRL format for electronic filing of financial information; provides GAAP-compliant reports with pre-defined financial intelligence, flexible scheduling, alerts and
multiformat publishing options; banking modules include software for planning, profitability
management, risk management, credit analysis, economic capital
From late 2006 into this year,
Head has been working on rolling
out Hyperion’s System 9 to partners
around the world and developing
new reports and analysis.
Oracle Hyperion Visual Explorer Performance management interface software to help
users navigate vast amounts of detail across many dimensions, quickly identify trends,
exceptions and interdependencies, and understand relationships that drive business performance; developed from five years of user productivity research at Stanford University
Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis (to be developed in 2008) Interactive GUI that lets
users view data in a way that makes sense to them
A new data view
head said that while opportunity International had always been
able to pull together data from, say,
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