Financial Management 11.1.2.

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Real Performance Improvements
With the release of EPM 11.1.2.4 Oracle promised great improvements in

To date, four client applications have been submitted for testing in our

HFM performance. We decided to put these too good to be true promises to

performance lab. All have seen fantastic improvements in their consolida-

the test with real life HFM applications.

tion times, even for applications running with as few as two consolidation
threads.

8 Threaded Consolidation HFM 11.1.2.3 vs 11.1.2.4

3 75% improvement in consolidation times

3 Marked improvement in the running of
concurrent consolidation performance

Consolidation on the same data set on the same hardware: Dell PowerEdge R820 Intel Xeon E5-4640 2.4GHz 4 Socket x 8 Cores (32Cores Total,
HT Disabled), 256GB RAM, SSD, Windows 2008 R2
Consolidation times for varying numbers of thread values

3 # of consolidation threads > 8 [greater results

3 The bigger & more hierarchical application [
better performance by increasing the
consolidation threads

Consolidation on the same data set on the same hardware: Dell PowerEdge R820 Intel Xeon E5-4640 2.4GHz 4 Socket x 8 Cores 32Cores Total,
HT Disabled), 256GB RAM, SSD, Windows 2008 R2

Further benefits for old or virtualized environments

For clients on old EPM versions like 9.3 and 11.1.2.1 running on older hardware, performance improvements are even more pronounced.
Up to 24 threads were tested in the lab. Even environments with fewer cores available will see performance improvements.
POV Consolidated
(2200 entities)

9.3.1 8 Threads,
Physical Server*

11.1.2.4 4 Threads
Virtual Server**

11.1.2.4 24 Threads,
Physical Server***

1 Year All with Data

2h:00m

1h:13m

0h:24m

1 Period All with Data

0h:22m

0h:15m

0h:4m

*HP ProLiant BL460c G1 - 8 Core 2.5 GHz Windows 2003

** VMWare 4 vCPU 12GB RAM
***Dell PowerEdge R820 Intel Xeon E5-4640 2.4GHz 4 Socket x 8 Cores (32Cores Total, HT Disabled), 256GB RAM, SSD, Windows 2008 R2

HFM 11.1.2.4 performance expectations for your application

3 Over 75% quicker consolidation times
3 Better concurrent consolidation behavior, more predictable times
3 More responsive HFM User Interface
3 Support for the Microsoft Windows/ SQL 2012 and Internet Explorer 11
3 Ability to separate out HFM application into different Database/Schema

About the Session Speaker

Kieron Cassidy
EPM Infrastructure Practice Lead, Infratects
Kieron Cassidy has over 14 years of experience in Hyperion & Oracle EPM Technical Design and Installation,
Performance Tuning, Oracle EPM Load and Stress Testing and Technical Support. Prior to Infratects, Kieron
provided Hyperion Technical support consultancy to Analitica and spent over 6 years in technical support at
Hyperion.
kieron.cassidy@infratects.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kieroncassidy
Curious about what 11.1.2.4 EPM version can do for your applications, contact us.
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