Migrating Your Application from Hyperion Enterprise

If you are one of Oracle’s long-time customers who have been looking at HFM, you should understand how the dimensions align, and what tools are available for migrating to HFM from Hyperion Enterprise (HE). One of the primary reasons for upgrading from HE to HFM is to gain an increase in dimensionality. There are many similarities from HE to HFM, but HFM offers you 12 dimensions, and HE only 4. In fact, any updates to HE dimensionality mean that you are adding new members to either accounts or entities. This is a technical limitation of a flat-file database, on which Enterprise is based. Figure 1-20 shows how these dimensions align from HE to HFM.

FIGURE 1-20. Hyperion Enterprise dimensions ...

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