February '10 Newsletter

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2010, we've got lots to share with you this month we hope you find it both interesting and useful.

As always if you have any ideas, additions or questions please get in touch with us, we’d love to hear from you.

Big tax changes loom for the mining industry

The Henry tax review has recommended scrapping the state based royalty taxes applying to mining projects and replacing them with a uniform national resource rent tax.  What does this mean for mining companies and how can M-Power help. more..... 

Consultant's Corner

In the Consultant Corner this month is one of our director's Steve Hitchman.

The Christmas break gave me a chance to reflect on 2009, so I thought it would be good to share my thoughts on some of the under utilised new features of Hyperion Planning that are making a real difference to our customers deployments. I hope it will give you a better insight into the new release and help priortise your efforts for 2010 so you can continue to improve your planning deployments. more.....

Customer Case Study - MMG

Minerals Metals Group needed a hosted Hyperion Planning environment in production in 2 weeks, find out how they did it. more......

Hyperion Planning Accelerator Templates for the Mining Sector

Based on our detailed mining industry knowledge M-Power has developed a complete set of Accelerator Templates which we deploy on top of Hyperion Planning. The preloaded templates, which have been developed in partnership with our customers, conform to industry best practices and ensure a quick, cost effective and predictable Hyperion Planning implementation. more....

New Melbourne Office

We are delighted to announce the opening of our new M-Power office in Melbourne.  As many of you will know we have been working in Melbourne for many years now and the opening of a new office reflects the increase in new and existing work we are developing in Victoria.  Office details can be found on our website here. 

Return on Invesment Calculator for Hyperion Planning

M-Power has released the first Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator for Hyperion Planning. The ROI Calculator provides organisations with a clear, factual understanding of the tangible business benefits they could achieve by implementing a Hyperion Planning solution. more.....

Tips and Tricks

Courtesy of Geoff Dillon and Mark Matson this month we look at:

• How to use Web Analysis to query the Hyperion Planning audit log, ensuring you don’t need to leave the Workspace to access this valuable information. more....
• How to encrypt passwords in MaxL scripts to avoid the security concerns of storing the password itself in the script, a warning this is for technically minded readers only. more....

Oracle launch CFO Central

Focused on the needs of the Chief Financial Officer, Oracle CFO Central provides in-depth thought leadership on financial management topics and solutions, the latest news, resources, and information about upcoming executive events. more.....

Golf Day Results

Congratulations to the Bankwest / M-Power team of Ryan, Ahmed and Sue who won the last M-Power Golf Day.  There was some heated debate about their scoring accuracy, mainly from Steve, but they ended up worthy winners.  Longest drive was won by Andy from AFG and Graeme for Oracle picked up the nearest the pin prize.

Thanks to everyone who came along to make it such a good afternoon.