I offer an 8+ year background in decision making support including modeling, financial analysis and process improvement recommendations on the IT and Finance side utilizing Oracle’s high-end analytical EPM systems which include HFM, Essbase, Planning and related software components. I am an expert with Excel, an experienced financial reporting analyst, an Hyperion systems administrator and developer (full life cycle) and have worked in a variety of environments with various platforms.

the disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator

by on 2013/04/18

setting a vmdk to online and initializing

A new disk (vmdk) added to Windows Server 2008 R2 shows “unallocated” and “Offline” in Disk Management.

steps

Prerequisite: Administrator or Domain Administrator
Begin by checking value of default SAN policy in CMD:
diskpart.exe
DISKPART> SAN
SAN Policy : Offline Shared

If “Offline Shared”, right-click the word “offline” for the specific disk, in the Disk Management interface. Select “Online” and then initialize the disk as on a physical server.

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financial planning

by on 2013/04/04

Plans tend to be stated in financial terms, and look to the future. Most of the terms and measures used by planning, budgeting and forecasting are financial. As such, the responsibilities associated with planning tend to be financial, and resolve to the executive with responsibility for money. At the most basic level, plans tend to facilitate the continuous improvement necessary to survive or even to thrive.

This post is part two of a primer on epm analysis.

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EPM documentation updated February 2013

by on 2013/02/22

Tags: documentation, EPM

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most viewed LinkedIn profiles

by on 2013/02/14

I recently received an email from LinkedIn notifying me that “Jon, congratulations! You have one of the top 10% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012!”
Some day I will make time to add the screenshot… after the jump…
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maintenance mode from the command line

by on 2013/01/01

ssh control of maintenance mode on ESXi 5 host

Change state of maintenance mode on ESXi host via command line from Linux using ssh into the ESXi host.

steps

Prerequisite: SSH enabled to eSXi host
Begin by checking value of inMaintenancemode of VMWare ESXi host
vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep -i maintenance
If true, exit maintenance mode with:
vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit
Enter maintenance mode with:
vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

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Tags: ESXi, VMWare

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@jonhwilliams

by on 2012/12/14


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Join the First-Ever ODTUG Expert’s Panel Webinar – Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

by on 2012/12/13

Trackback: http://gurcanorhan.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/odtug-ask-the-experts-panel-odi/trackback/

ODTUG : Blogs : Join the First-Ever ODTUG Expert’s Panel Webinar – Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).

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financial opportunity assessment

by on 2012/12/12

Financial Opportunity Assessment generally consists of interpreting financials and evaluating performance at a global level such as finance. EPM can logically be a domain of finance or revenue reporting yet successful EPM teams can be leveraged for opportunity assessment across other domains.

This post is part one of a primer on epm analysis.

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Tags: EPM, financial opportunity assessment

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Primer on EPM Analysis

by on 2012/12/11

primer on enterprise performance management analysis

The most effective management systems are built to address business needs. It is convenient to begin an EPM system within the domain of financial management, so we may recap analysis for management, along the following outline.

  1. Financial Opportunity Assessment 
    1. Interpreting Financials
    2. Evaluating Performance
  2. Financial Planning
    1. Forecasts
    2. Budget
    3. Growth
  3. Financial Operations
    1. Instruments
    2. Markets
    3. Financing
  4. Cash Flow and Investment Opportunities
    1. Discounted Cash Flow and Other Techniques
    2. Business Valuation
    3. Corporate Structure
    4. Role of Risk Analysis

Tags: finance, financial analysis

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The Complete Guide To Standard Deployment

by on 2012/12/08

A complete guide to standard deployment would include a standard, virtual implementation:

  1. Overview
  2. Requirements
    1. ESXi Server
    2. DNS Server
    3. AD (PDC) Server
  3. Database
  4. Network
  5. EPM System Software
  6. Scaling Out
  7. Clients
  8. Financial Reporting
  9. Introduction to ETL

Tags: EPM, guides, leading practice, Standard Deployment

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