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1 2 3 4 5 Hyperion 34850: Hyperion as an EVMS Solution    Summary Robert Dowd, Business Technology Resource Group Presentation will demonstrate EVM Reporting in Hyperion. The presentation will demostrate: budgeting in Hyperion, PS to Hyperion integration, project ETC in Hyperion, EVM reporting in Hyperion. Create Government required annual budget in Hyperion. Integrate PeopleSoft actual Prroject data with Hyperion and calculate project estimates to complete. Combine budget, actual, and ETC data for EVM reporting. Monday, 4/14/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: 608 Hyperion 37380: Hyperion 9 BI+ Interactive Reporting: Design Reports & Dashboards    Summary Doug Vinson, TITAN Technology Partners TBD, TITAN GBSynergy TBD, TITAN GBSynergy Learn the essentials of querying data sources, building reports, analyzing data, and designing dashboards with Interactive Reporting Studio and Dashboard Development Services. Power users and report developers will learn how to query data sources; create tabular, cross-tabular, chart, and band-style reports; analyze report data; and create simple dashboards. Monday, 4/14/08  9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Room: Korbel 1B Hyperion 37430: Tips and Tricks with Hyperion Web Analysis    Summary Mohammad Mehkari, USA Drug Tracy McMullen, interRel Consulting Are you utilizing Hyperion Web Analysis to its fullest? Would you like to enhance the reporting and analysis experience? Join us for this session where you'll learn tips, tricks, and best practices applicable to Analyzer 7x and Web Analysis. Provide tips and tricks for Web Analysis design and optimization Provide tips and tricks for the end user experience Provide tips and tricks for Web Analysis administration Monday, 4/14/08  2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Room: 106 Hyperion 37440: How Essbase Thinks    Summary Edward Roske , interRel Consulting Would you like to know some of what the Hyperion developers know about the Essbase Calc engine? Attend this session to gain an understanding of what actually happens when you perform Essbase calculations, helping you to tune your business rules. Review the inner workings the Essbase database structure Review what happens when Essbase performs calculations Provide tips and tricks for tuning Essbase calculations Monday, 4/14/08  9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37450: Tips Tricks and Best Practices for Hyperion Planning    Summary Edward Roske, interRel Consulting This session will show how to work more efficiently with your Planning implementation, impressing both users and management. You will learn how to get the most out of Planning functionality and how to best optimize and manage your application. Provide tips and tricks for Planning design and optimization Provide tips and tricks for the end user experience Provide tips and tricks for Planning administration Wednesday, 4/16/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 113 Hyperion 37460: A Day in the Life of a Planning Administrator    Summary Tracy McMullen, Mattel A day in the life of a Planning Administrator is never dull.  Managing the budgeting process is a full time job and then some.  Join us for this presentation where we will share some tips, tricks, and best practices for Planning administrat Model a "day in the life" of a Planning Administrator Provide tips and tricks for enhancing the end user experience Provide tips and tricks for Planning maintenance and administration Tuesday, 4/15/08  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: 401 Hyperion 37470: A Day in the Life of an Essbase Administrator    Summary Uma Nalliah, Alliance Data As an Essbase Administrator, you deserve to have an easy life and this presentation will give you the secrets you need to do just that. During this session we will discuss tips and tricks for your Essbase implementation and administration. Model a "day in the life" of a Essbase Administrator Provide tips and tricks for enhancing the end user experience Provide tips and tricks for Essbase design, maintenance, and administration Monday, 4/14/08  10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37480: Transitioning from Essbase 7x To System 9 Essbase    Summary William Warren, Alliance Data System 9 offers the same products you know and love but offers some new features and tools that brings them all together. Discover what's new, what stayed the same and considerations for migrating your current solution to System 9 Essbase. Introduce Hyperion System 9 Review new features in System 9 Essbase Provide tips and tricks for migrating to System 9 Essbase Tuesday, 4/15/08  1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37500: Real World Optimization: Hyperion Essbase    Summary Ben Reeder, Deere and Company You want to go beyond all those optimization presentations that talk only of theory and never show you techniques you can actually use? Join us for this session where we will show you how to tune and optimize your Essbase environment. Review how to optimize your Essbase design Review how to optimize dimension builds and data loads Review how to optimize calculations Tuesday, 4/15/08  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37510: What's New in System 9 Essbase    Summary Ben Reeder, Deere and Company Interested in migrating to System 9 Essbase? The next generation of Essbase will help businesses to continue to evolve. Discover new features like Time Intelligence for ASO, calc export commands, and more. Don't miss this informative session! Introduce Hyperion System 9 Essbase Demonstrate new System 9 Essbase features Monday, 4/14/08  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37520: Financial Reporting for Mere Mortals: Tips, Tricks and Best Practices    Summary Michelle Borson, Michaels Michaels Stores implemented Hyperion Reports across the enterprise to generate all of the financial books for thousands stores in just minutes. Come learn how we implemented functionality and improved performance in Financial Reporting. Provide tips and tricks for Financial Reporting design and optimization Provide tips and tricks for enhancing the end user experience Provide tips and tricks for Financial Reporting maintenance and administration Monday, 4/14/08  2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Room: 113 Hyperion 37530: Essbase for Non-Financial Applications: Advertising and Marketing Analysis    Summary Michelle Borson, Michaels Stores In this session, you will see how to use Essbase to plan and analyze advertising information. We'll show you a real-world Essbase cube that enables planning for circulation, number of pages, and demand curves for every single catalog that issued. Discuss the use of Essbase for non-financial applications Review the advertising Essbase database solution for Michaels Stores Tuesday, 4/15/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37550: Hyperion Smartview for Mere Mortals: Tricks, Tips and Best Practices    Summary Angela Slayton, Sabre Holdings Discover the value of using Hyperion SmartView with Microsoft Office. Write letters in Word that include Essbase numbers, make PowerPoint presentations with graphs from Web Analysis and send Planning numbers to your manager in Outlook. Introduce Hyperion Smart View Demonstrate Hyperion Smart View with Word, PowerPoint and Excel Provide tips and tricks for using Smart View Wednesday, 4/16/08  4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 113 Hyperion 37570: Hyperion Planning and Essbase at Pearson    Summary Alla Oriente, Pearson Schools Pearson took 17 companies spanning 2 GLs (Oracle & SAP) and combined them to do joint reporting across a common hierarchy.Using Essbase and Planning, they released cross-company P&Ls, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flows.Join us to learn how they d Review the business requirements Review the solution using Hyperion Planning and Essbase Review the implementation success factors Monday, 4/14/08  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37580: Hyperion Essbase Calc Scripts for Mere Mortals    Summary Edward Roske, interRel Consulting Back in Essbase Bootcamp, we all learned CALC ALL(maybe CALC DIM & FIX). Would it surprise you to know that there are over 250 functions and commands you can use in a calc script?Join us as we help you better understand more complex calc scripts. Review Essbase calc script basics Discuss more complex Essbase calc script commands, functions and macros Wednesday, 4/16/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 37650: The Power of 64-bit Essbase    Summary Edward Roske, interRel Consulting Come learn how you can take advantage of 64-bit scalable solutions to meet heavy workloads in your Hyperion environment. Scale to meet the ever-expanding growth of data and “I want it now” information demands of your customers with 64 bit Essbase. Introduce 64-bit Essbase Review considerations when implementing 64-bit Essbase Discuss the benefits of 64-bit Essbase Tuesday, 4/15/08  4:45 PM - 5:45 PM Room: Korbel 1A Hyperion 39070: Best Practice - HFM Administration Metadata Management and Change Control     Summary Tom ORourke, Ranzal Improve an administrator’s ability to track changes, provide documentation for audit and meet SOX compliance busing HFM functionality and dimensions to centralize, secure and maintain the change control process in a central location. Centalize Change Control Process within HFM, leveraging Custom Documents, Security, and Dimensions. Illustrate how all versions of metadata can be stored directly in the HFM RDBMS via the HFM GUI. Demo how an auditor can see what changes occurred with the necessary documentation directly in HFM. Monday, 4/14/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 501 Hyperion 39100: Architectural Planning for Implementing Hyperion System 9 An overview for System Administrators    Summary Eric Helmer, Answerthink This session is an introduction to the major components of System 9 for System Administrators. It covers installation strategy, sizing considerations, clustering, and performance tuning based on best practices and lessons learned in the field. Understand Architectural components of System 9 Planning a System 9 implementation - installation, sizing, tuning, scalibility considerations Roles and responsibilities of System Administrators Monday, 4/14/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: 702 Applicable to All Product Lines 39140: "The Integration Triangle"    Summary Jay Aleck, Mohawk Industries Amy Chambers, Mohawk Industries Building and deploying the “Integration Triangle” at Mohawk Industries. Discuss how we pull from JDE to HFM then from HFM to Planning next push Planning Data back to HFM and JDE. Adding to the complexity, keeping the metadata updated. Identify our need to move data and keep metadata in synch inside and out of the Hyperion System Review our build and methodology to accomplish this movement Share our experiences and identify how Hyperion has added value to our organization Tuesday, 4/15/08  1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Room: Korbel 1B Hyperion 39680: Portfolio Management: Optimizing Project Valuation to Drive Economic Profit with Hyperion Strategic Finance    Summary James Le, Acuity Analytics Deliver solutions to overcome today’s demand and challenge for speed, data integrity, and flexibility. Attendees will discover how HSF can transform a company’s ability to drive economic profit with an optimal investment portfolio. HSF demo included. Demonstrate the powerful consolidation, scenario, and treasury features of HSF Engage attendees with an open discussion on their work challenges with Excel Provide client examples of HSF use to address speed, accuracy, and flexibility needs   1 2 3 4 5