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Agenda

Company Introduction al
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Who is Edgewater Ranzal
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Calculation Manager
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What is Calculation Manager?
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Componentsro of Calculation Manager
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Creating a rule or two
Q&A

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Edgewater Ranzal Overview

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Founded in 1996, Ranzal has implemented Oracle
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Cover all requirements from pre-implementation process design
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ONLY One Stop Shop for ALL EPM implementation needs
160+ Full time Consultants across all practices, I was employee
#13.11 years ago

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What is Calculation Manager?

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Workspace Module used to graphically create, validate and administer
business rules for Essbase, Planning and HFM
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Allows for the creation and administration of rules for Essbase (ASO and
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Introduced in rv11.1.1.x

Replaces Hyperion Business Rules in the 11.1.2.2 EPM product stack

Remember the old Business Rules Graphic designer???? Calc Manager

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Benefits of Calculation Manager

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Provides business users and admins a friendly view of complex
calculation logic
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Speeds development and administration by providing, reusable and
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shared components across multiple rules and applications
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Not limited to 8 characters (Except against Essbase cubes)
Centralization of all EPM product calculations, vs separate areas for each
product (HFM, Essbase, Planning)
Centralization of variables used in calcs
Rules may be created in either script or graphical mode and toggled
between each view.
Web Based

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Calculation Manager Security

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Delete Rules r t e

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Global Calculation Manager administrator role enables you to
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create, edit, and delete Planning,
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administrator role enables you to create, edit, and delete
Planning objects.
Essbase users only: The Essbase administrator role enables
you to create, edit, and delete Essbase objects.
Note: The Essbase administrator role is inherited from Essbase; there
is no Essbase Calculation Manager administrator role

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Calculation Manager - Accessing

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Calculation Manager - Views

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Calculation Manager List View

Open Open rule in Rule Designer

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Delete Delete the Rule
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Export Export the rule to a .xml file
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Validate Validate the rule
Launch Launch the rule (Essbase only)
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Copy Copy entire rule to another Application or create a copy a
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Change Owner select a new owner for the rule

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Calculation Manager System View

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The System View is the default view when Calculation Manager is launched.
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Rules are organized by application type (Essbase, Planning, HFM) and by
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Calculation Manager Custom View

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The Custom View allows you to create and organize personal folders. You can drag
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Calculation Manager Deployment View

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The Deployment View lists all rules and rule sets by application type and application,
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Calculation Manager Components

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A business rule can be composed of components, including formulas,
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scripts, conditions, member blocks, member ranges, data ranges
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Member block components contain one member that you specify (Ess & Pln
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Member range components, or metadata loops, contain lists of metadata
members (i.e. lists of accounts)
Data Range components (Financial Management users only), or data loops,
contain lists of data records (for example, lists of account values).
Fixed loop components contain metadata loops that, for example, loop through
a list of metadata members like accounts.

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Calculation Manager Components

Formulas (Planning & Essbase BSO)

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Calculation statements are entered in a row of the grid within the
component designer
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You can use the Condition Builder to create multiple and nested IFs
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Scripts (Planning & Essbase BSO)
Only viewed as a script, not graphically
All Essbase calculation commands/functions are permitted
Robust edit and commenting capability
Displays with a caption below in the flow chart as shown:

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Conditions (Planning & Essbase BSO)

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Member Blocks (Planning & Essbase BSO)

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Component designers, but the member block component is useful for
nesting multiple calculation statements within a single block.
Cannot be shared between other rules
Created from within the rule you are working with, not from the
System View as most other components.
Displays as two circles with a connecting line in the flow chart:

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Calculation Manager Components

Member Range (Planning & Essbase BSO)

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Member Range components cannot be shared
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Member Range can be defined using Variables, Members, or Functions
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Displays as two circles with a connecting line in the flow chart
Creates your FIX statements
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Fixed Loop (Planning & Essbase
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Calculation Manager ASO Components

Point of View (Essbase ASO)

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Lists of members
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Allocation (Essbase ASO)
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Allows you to push data from a member to the Lev0 descendants of that
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Can Allocate evenly or using a driver (calculate percentages)
Must specify rounding method and what to do when the basis is negative or
zero within the component designer

Formula (Essbase ASO)

Calculation statements you can design using members, functions and variables
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Calculation Manager Variables

Variables
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Application or Database Level variables
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Execution: When the business rule is launched, the calculation defined
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variables in formula components
Run Time Prompts Variables
You can create variables that prompt users to enter information when
they launch a business rule. These runtime prompt variables prompt
users for such information as members, text, dates, or numbers.
The prompts tell users what type of data is expected

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Dimension - a dimension
Member - a member
Members - two or more members
Percent - a percentage

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Log Information - information from the log file
Boolean - a condition that returns a true or false value
Financial Management, Planning, and Essbase block
storage application users only
Array - a list of values
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Calculation Manager Best Practices

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Use comments
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Dont be afraid of Calc Manager, its not difficult

It is the direction Oracle is going
Business rules go away in v11.1.2.2
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Calculation Manager Demo

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Questions?

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Scott Pold n z
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