HAL Replacement Assessments

Hyperion Application Link (HAL) was the IT-driven data integration offering from Hyperion and along with Hyperion FDM comprised Hyperion’s data integration suite of products. HAL provides a workflow-based data integration solution but is not currently a part of Oracle’s Hyperion data integration suite of products. In July 2009, HAL will no longer be on Oracle premier support, and HAL is scheduled to be completely removed from Oracle’s sustaining support in June 2010.

Organizations used HAL to perform many different integrations into various Hyperion products including Hyperion Essbase, Financial Management and Planning. All of these integrations can be performed in one or more of Oracle’s current data integration suite of products: Financial Data Quality Management (FDM), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Data Integration Management (DIM).

Finit has helped multiple organizations, including most recently a Fortune 50 company, assess their current HAL integrations and determine the right data integration solution for them. Finit has helped clients with the following items related to replacing their HAL integrations:

• Finit has helped multiple organizations, including most recently a Fortune 50 company, assess their current HAL integrations and determine the right data integration solution for them. Finit has helped clients with the following items related to replacing their HAL integrations:
• Working with the organization to determine the requirements for HAL’s replacement and what new functionality, if any, will be included.
• Providing pros / cons and future process mapping of each Oracle Hyperion data integration solution. This focuses on what the system administrator process will look like.
• Developing a proof of concept integration using the leading solution.

Finit consultants have worked with some of the most complex HAL routines in usage and have developed migration strategies to move clients onto the right data integration solution based on how those clients’ needs align with Oracle’s Hyperion suite of data integration tools.