MIGRATE

Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) Like many Oracle  customers that have large and strategic investments in Oracle Financial  Analyzer (OFA), these investments not only include license costs but  also your proprietary business logic that is embedded in the  implementation, the user training and the execution of your key business  processes.

Oracle has issued a de-support notice (Note:365197.1) for OFA so businesses should begin looking at possible migration paths, even if in the short term they chose to do nothing while they assess the situation.

• Error Correction Support (bug fixes) ended in 2009
• Extended Support stops at the end of 2010.

What will happen past 1st January 2011? Will your OFA system still  work? Yes your OFA application will operate as normal, but consider the  implications of operating without vendor support. You must begin to look  at your upgrade/migration options. Hyperion Planning, Essbase and  OBIEE are core parts of Oracle’s Performance Management (EPM)  application strategy, for your organization to consider. Customers  currently using OFA as an analytical tool (OLAP), can receive the  immediate benefit of Essbase’s powerful OLAP engine and then further  extend it through virtually unlimited customizations to gain full  benefit of the many extended capabilities of Essbase.

GoLive consulting teams are Essbase experts and have extensive  experience in both OFA and Hyperion technologies. We  work with you to  define a roadmap that successfully  executes your switch over, including  training for your user base to a new state-of-the-art OLAP toolset and  its extended application Hyperion Planning or OBIEE all based on the  strategic vision of your organization.

GoLive’s expert integration specialists combine their business  knowledge with HAL and the latest Oracle integration toolset. We work  with you to define and implement a migration roadmap to the Oracle ETL  toolset of your choice.

Hyperion Application Link (HAL), launched in 1999 was the integration  framework designed to streamline the integration of data from  transaction processing systems such as enterprise resource planning  (ERP) systems and customer relationship management (CRM) applications  into Hyperion’s range of packaged analytic application solutions –  Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Essbase.  This announcement was part of Hyperion’s strategy to help corporations  utilize the value of data contained in transaction processing sources.  Hyperion Application Link comprises a suite of graphical application  integration services that provides a workflow-based integration  solution. With the release of the Fusion edition of the Oracle  Enterprise Performance suite, support for HAL was discontinued in June  2010.

With the Fusion Edition onwards the integration tools offered by  Oracle are Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Financial Data Management  (FDM), Data Integration Management (DIM), Hyperion Planning and Hyperion  Financial Management. Between 1999 and 2010 numerous Hyperion clients  had invested heavily in this tool, capturing translation and business  logic within HAL workflows.