HFM as a reconciliation tool?

Hi everyone,
I am aware that HFCM is a tool from Oracle for performing recon but what if I want to use HFM as a recon tool?..any thoughts on this concept...?...
Any and every reply would be really appreciated...
Thanks
Edited by: 999954 on Apr 14, 2013 7:46 AM

The flat file that results from the EA Extract is huge and takes a Long time to load back into FDM. Is there a way that we could do this process without having to make that script?
Yes, after considering your requirement we can very well create the star schema and load the same to Essbase
OR, could we simply bypass FDM in the second round? Since my goal is to get the HFM-EA extract to Essbase/Planning, do I even need FDM here?
You can very well skip the FDM. To load data into Essbase, we can do Essbase Analytics for Aggregate Storage. If it's Block Storage you MUST create a Query to extract the data from Schema and load data to Essbase.
I.e. transfer the HFM Extended Analytics data to Essbase Analytics database ?
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