Manage

One Console – Tools and Insight you need to do your job

Maintaining your EPM environment involves accessing many system components to get a complete snapshot of your system’s health.  Gathering all of this information from the various sources and making sense of it is time consuming and cumbersome.  With the dynamic nature of your EPM system, by the time you finally get everything together and attempt to analyze it there is a high likelihood your information is outdated already, making your job even tougher.

With Accelatis you can access the majority of your ongoing maintenance tasks in a single console.  Our holistic approach lets you see properties and activities from the Server, Application and Environment level.  Having everything at your fingertips in real time gives you confidence that you have all of the up to date information you need to make confident decisions.

Your ability to get your job done with Accelatis Ascension Suite™ is accomplished with the following modules:  Environment Manager, Enterprise Automation, Activity Analysis, and Log Retrieval

Benefits

Audit

Simplify and accelerate the process of by viewing all of your settings throughout your environment and enjoy significant savings in development, configuration, maintenance and support.

Tune

Make changes to setting individually or across your environment with rapid and powerful access and guidance.

Automate

Streamline manual tasks to happen with the precision and timing that you choose.

Analyze

Retrieve activity and system logs quickly and interact with the data in a variety of graphical and tabular formats to gain unprecedented insight.

Benchmark

Understand with precise accuracy the impact of changes to your environment. Generation, retrieval and organization of this information is often laborious, inconsistent or otherwise impossible to measure accurately.

Features

Your ability to get your job done with the Management Module is accomplished with the five features: Audit, Tune, Automate, Analyze, and Benchmark.

Audit

Simplify and accelerate the process of by viewing all of your settings throughout your environment and enjoy significant savings in development, configuration, maintenance and support.

  • View Real-time server performance measures on each server and environment such as:
    • CPU and memory usage
    • Physical Machine Properties
    • Software Versions
    • Product Properties
    • Installed File Versions
    • Users
    • Jobs
    • Application Settings
      • Versions
      • Statistical Breakdown of Key Dimensions
  • View the status, connectivity, and properties of your entire system across multiple servers and environments.
  • Audit all infrastructure and product changes.
  • Compare product settings, server settings and installed files across servers and receive alerts to any that are out-of-sync. Discrepancies such as these often manifest into issues without remediation.
  • Audit all product settings changes regardless of whether the changes were made via Ascension Suite, in the native product or manually.

 

Tune

Make changes to settings individually or across your environment with rapid and powerful access and guidance.

  • Receive expert guidance on setting recommendations including minimum and maximum values.
  • Change product property settings on a single server or across a group of servers in just a few clicks as Ascension Suite walks you through the process. Take effort and guesswork out of system maintenance by not only automating the task but auditing it as well so there is a history of what was changed, when it was changed and by whom.
  • Create, store, edit and execute scripts from this interface with ease. Execute a script on a single server or on every server in an environment simultaneously with the click of a button. Examples of useful scripts are to restart a collection of services or stop and restart a process.
  • Store any documents needed to be accessed across the deployment in a centralized database.

 

Automate

Streamline manual tasks to happen with the precision and timing that you choose.

  • Create and automate flows of tasks from any product within Hyperion or outside Hyperion for complete versatility.
  • Execute Automation Flows as scheduled, ad-hoc or as the result of an alert. An entire set of tasks can be targeted to execute on a specified server or tasks can be targeted individually for control over how the Ascension Suite is leveraged. Special control tasks can be inserted to continue based on certain conditions being satisfied.
  • Chain tasks together to form flows that can run across servers in sequence.

 

Analyze

  • Retrieve activity and system logs quickly and interact with the data in a variety of graphical and tabular formats to gain unprecedented insight.
  • Gain immediate insight into the cause-and-effect relationship of your system activity while cutting hours and days off the process of diagnosing system issues. View User Activity, System Events and System Metrics – information from multiple sources, all in one graph with a single button click. No need to normalize log data and reconcile log events manually.
  • Pull and plot data from any Activity Log throughout your environment against any other Log along with key system metrics on the same time scale.
  • Stream data in real-time to show how your user activity affects your system performance.
  • Export data in a grid format to Excel.
  • Leverage charting and event-based graphing to analyze your data
  • Drill into charts for deep analysis not available with traditional log analysis tools.

 

Benchmark

Understand with precise accuracy the impact of changes to your environment. Generation, retrieval and organization of this information is often laborious, inconsistent or otherwise impossible to measure accurately.

  • Create collections of benchmark tasks for organized reporting of various aspects of system performance. Tracking benchmark performance is useful for determining the impact of changes to your system such as:
    • Upgrades
    • Changes to organizational structure
    • Product settings changes
    • Hardware infrastructure changes
    • Network infrastructure changes
    • Performance optimizations
  • Graph and evaluate trends in performance over time and reconcile to system changes and performance optimizations.
  • Track performance over time by enabling on automation elements.

Screenshots

Environment Manager
Enterprise Automation
Activity Analysis Log Retrieval

Successes

Success Summary – Performance Problem- Rapid Resolution:

One of our clients received a call from a user complaining of a problem in their system related to performance as they tried to run a report in HFM. Before Accelatis, many people would need to become involved to attempt to gather information and diagnose the problem. It takes a knowledgeable person to even know what to look for, much less make sense of the information once it’s eventually in hand. Various logs and other artifacts would have been manually pulled from many servers, which were then packaged and sent to the analyst. Once the information was received the analyst would have needed to filter out the noise and reconcile dates and activities across logs. They would then need to have enough expertise to understand how to look for events that are related to the complaint. This process typically took hours or days before the analyst was in a position to make an assessment. With Ascension Suite this process was automated took our client a few clicks and a few seconds to pinpoint and correct the issue.

 

Success Summary – Rapid Registry Changes:

A large Hyperion client has a deployment with over 3 dozen servers worldwide. They needed to make registry changes to 3 servers. In the past a similar exercise had taken them over 50 minutes with 6 people on a conference call. The Ascension Suite allowed them to make these changes in a matter of seconds without disrupting anyone else’s day in the process.