Business Challenge

• Multi-year Finance Transformation – After a two-phase Hyperion EPM environment upgrade, company sought assistance for ongoing maintenance and a steady flow of system enhancements required across a variety of applications and supporting infrastructure
• New Company Integration – Recent acquisition created challenges with FDMEE database

Solution

• Administrative and Enhancement Support – Peloton provides ongoing administrative support to run monthly configurations, patching, and security updates as well as perform minor enhancements for Hyperion Environment
• FDMEE Database Management – Perform bi-weekly ODI Log Purge
• Quarterly Regression Testing – Implemented Quarterly Regression Testing to proactively test system functionality and stability
• Infrastructure and Application Optimization – Tuned system settings to allow for maximum uptime; Web logic and financial reporting tuning and Essbase configuration

Impact

• Streamlined and Enhanced Reporting Process – Reduced turnaround and administrative time to perform value-add activities including:
  • Bonus Model Enhancement – Improved scalability of bonus transfer model for acquisition
  • Workforce Security Model – Enabled users to manage HR data and expenses
  • Super Lock and Send Enhancement – Enabled mass uploading of forecasts and budgets
  • Currency Conversion Enhancement
• Optimized Long Running Calculations Times – Now run in seconds instead of minutes