Introduction

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is a powerful consolidation tool. At the core is a well-designed relational database that provides a foundation for many features. This foundation was built with many new forward-thinking technologies, which have made possible many of the new features and functions clients enjoy today. HFM’s web interface allows for faster rollout and adoption. Between the web interface and the database is an application layer. This application layer enables the tool to scale as a company grows and evolves. The rules with which it performs the calculations provide data in ways that are prohibited with many other tools. HFM was built to translate, allocate, eliminate, and consolidate your data with minimal setup. I....