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Effective migration of your Essbase solution to Freeform

Do you already have Freeform as part of your EPM solution and need help in realising the benefits?

Transform your Essbase environment with Oracle Freeform planning

In today’s fast‑moving business landscape, migrating from traditional on‑premise or marketplace Essbase delivers a range of compelling advantages. Oracle Freeform Planning is one of the solutions uniquely positioned to unlock these benefits, including:

  • Scalability becomes limitless as cloud services dynamically allocate resources to match demand.
  • Cost efficiency prevails, eliminating hefty upfront investments in hardware and maintenance.
  • Real-time insights thrive, thanks to parallel processing and distributed computing.

With cloud Freeform Planning, organizations can focus on what truly matters: extracting actionable intelligence from their data, unshackled by infrastructure constraints.

Crucially many organizations have this capability already built into their existing EPM solution, they just need the support, expertise and experience to know migrate successfully,

If you want to speak to an expert about how we can help you take advantage of the capability built into Freeform or help you migrate to the cloud, register here and we’ll be in touch.

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Our migration step by step approach

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Essbase Readiness Evaluation

Identify use of legacy functionality not directly supported by Freeform Planning

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Rationalization of Current Dimension Library

Identification and implementation of opportunities to use share dimensions in Freeform Planning applications

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Creation of EPM Cloud Pod(s)

Spin up the required number of EPM Enterprise Cloud pods for migration

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Migration of Cubes from Current Essbase

Transfer data, metadata, calculations etc. from the existing on-premises environment to the Cloud

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Automation of Current Integrations

Rebuild existing integration points and scheduling, using modern EPM Cloud toolset

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Case study

Our client, a global consumer banking group, chose to partner with us to migrate their extensive Essbase estate of more than 20 applications to Oracle EPM Cloud Freeform Planning.

Through that transformation we were able to:

  • Eliminate hardware and software ownership and maintenance
  • Provide constant access to the latest features
  • Deliver less downtime and fewer outages
  • Reduce security headaches with less time spent on audit and compliance tasks
  • Give access to the full suite of EPM Cloud business processes
  • Build in AI features for increased productivity, insight and anomaly detection

This transformation delivered meaningful competitive advantages by giving the business access to the latest technology, while freeing teams from ongoing technical challenges so they could focus on driving value and innovation.

“I often see organizations who have been sold the big transformation of moving to EPM, but they haven’t realised the benefits. We’re happy to step in and solve the lower value changes, which drive big benefits for our customers”.

George Eggert, Business Development Director – Oracle

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