Client Success Story: Global Manufacturing Client

Case Studies
Written By Jeff Henkel

Background

Oracle Hyperion/EPM System “Lift and Shift” upgrade (11.1.2.4 to 11.2.18) with a migration from on premise servers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Engaged to oversee the architecture, installation, migration, SIT/UAT, and implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.

IMPLEMENTATION HIGHLIGHTS

  • OCI Infrastructure Architected

  • EPM upgraded from legacy version 11.1.2.4 to 11.2.18

  • Products in use: Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Planning, Essbase, Financial Reporting, FDMEE

  • Region to Region DR implementation powered by RackWare

    • Turnkey DR backing up 16 EPM servers

    • Decreased RPO and RTO by over 75%

    • Excellent ROI eliminated duplicate DR hardware and DR manpower/hours

  • All Windows environment migrated to a mixed LINUX/Windows environment leveraging Windows Server 2018 and RedHat Linux 7

  • Project Statistics:

  • 2 HFM Applications

  • 3 Planning Applications

  • 20+ Essbase Cubes

  • 2 FDMEE Applications (20 Custom FDMEE scripts)

  • 350 Custom Automation Scripts

Challenge

Client needed to upgrade an old and unsupported release to EPM 11.2.x. In addition, they had other corporate systems moving to OCI and wanted to use EPM as the flagship early adopter for OCI migration. The environments supported Planning/Essbase and HFM components and relied on large amounts of custom scripting and automations that needed to be migrated from Windows batch command over to LINUX scripting.The client also required 24x7 follow the sun support for all of the OCI and EPM systems post go-live.

Outcomes

The client started their OCI architecture build and migration process in December, and completed the migration and testing of all components within 7 months for a June go-live. This included the migration of all components to 4 EPM environments, and the successful testing of an end-to-end DR process. The upgrade was a success that keeps the client supported for years to come, as they explore Oracle’s SaaS offerings, as a future end-state. The client also leverages iArch Solutions Managed Services for the ongoing support of the environment.

Jeff Henkel