EPMware Success Story: EPMware Streamlines FTSE 250 OneStream Adoption

Background

When TP ICAP decided to implement the performance management solution OneStream, its goal was to reduce complexity and simplify business process by creating a unified CPM solution.

However, before the company could realize the benefits of OneStream’s financial consolidation, reporting, and budgeting capabilities, it first had to navigate significant integration and data management challenges.

This FTSE 250 constituent initially relied on various Oracle Hyperion products as its baseline, including using Oracle EBS for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Oracle DRM to manage metadata across its Hyperion applications.

When the company decided to replace the bulk of its Hyperion applications with OneStream, it found that it would be both cost-prohibitive and operationally inefficient to continue using the current DRM instance, so the company began looking for an alternative solution.

EPMware’s unified metadata management and data governance solution was a logical choice for the client thanks to its real-time validation capabilities, one-click metadata deployment, and plug-and-play adapters for OneStream and Oracle EBS.

The Problem

Manual metadata management can't keep up with today's enterprises.

Data dominates our business environments, which makes managing metadata changes manually across multiple business applications not only inefficient but also potentially catastrophic to financial reporting accuracy.

Before implementing OneStream and partnering with EPMware, this broker- dealer didn’t have a reliable, automated process to capture and validate metadata change requests. Instead, business users would submit changes to administrators, who would wait for approvals before manually making the requested changes in EBS and any other target application.

This time-consuming, error-prone process was particularly problematic for keeping the company’s user acceptance testing (UAT) environment metadata in sync with the production environment.

Additionally, an Oracle DRM 11.2 update deprecated the integrations API, which disabled automation functionality when the company upgraded to Hyperion On- Premises 11.2.x.

The Solution

EPMware increases visibility and streamlines changes across OneStream and Oracle EBS.

The EPMware platform was designed to give business users the ability to create metadata using a visual production reporting view, with workflows and validations, and then directly deploy that metadata to target applications.

The client brought in EPMware during the OneStream migration to take advantage of these capabilities and establish a synchronized, centralized metadata repository for OneStream and EBS from the start.

The Results

Code-free integration and real-time validation cut time and costs.

EPMware joined the client team toward the end of its OneStream implementation. Within weeks, the platform was up and running and delivering value.

Ease of Integration

EPMware has a built-in EPMware-to-EBS adapter that pushes metadata to the ERP. This was a significant feature for the client because most solutions don’t use a centralized metadata system to push ERP and ERP hierarchy changes.

EPMware has built-in integrations with OneStream, so there was no need for the client to customize the solution to house the OneStream Extensible Dimensionality hierarchy. EPMware was able to import the OneStream Extensible Dimensionality data model by simply importing a OneStream XML metadata-export file.

Real-Time Validation

Creating validations between OneStream and EBS saved the client time by eliminating the need to manually sync metadata between applications. EPMware reduces the need for touchpoints in both applications, putting metadata in one centralized location so users can visualize and confirm a change to all subscribing applications before releasing it.

EPMware also added a series of governance validations that enforce business rules (e.g., member naming conventions) and synced them across EBS and OneStream so that the metadata is clean going forward. Think of this as an ongoing metadata rationalization process.

Cost Savings

EPMware stands out in the market not only for its unique combined metadata management and data governance platform but also for its pricing structure. Unlike Oracle Hyperion DRM—which must be purchased individually and is priced per record—EPMware’s enterprise subscription model includes metadata management, data governance, and out-of-the-box integration with the most popular EPM, CPM, and ERP technologies without a per- record licensing model.