ERPi

ERP Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications (ERPi) is a module of Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, which enables you to perform the following tasks:

Integrate metadata and data from an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) source system into an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) target application

Drill through from the EPM target application and view data in the ERP source system

Write back budget data to the source system from any Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition, Oracle Essbase ASO, or Essbase BSO application

ERPi isn’t really an add-on to FDM. In fact, you don’t have to have FDM to run ERPi. ERPi is an interface that sits on top of ODI. So you must have ODI. Then ERPi integrates with FDM and EPMA to move data and metadata respectively into HFM. Obviously then, this is a tool for centralized data. This is not something you would configure for many sources of data, especially if they are remote.