A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient and Rajesh Bhatia, VP of […]
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3 Main Oracle EPBCS Presentation Components
Oracle/Hyperion has long been the standard-bearer for ease-of-use with financial reporting and analytics. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) carries on this legacy with three main presentation components: Reports Print-quality reports are designed using Financial Reporting (FR) Web Studio. It is a web-based design tool that looks much like the current Financial Reporting […]
EPBCS Business Process Module: Projects
The Project module of Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) is designed to support financial planning and forecasting for contract, capital, and indirect projects. The platform integrates project management systems and financial planning to support the complete project planning lifecycle. It has four components: Projects Summary Provides a full project view – both […]
EPBCS Business Process Module: Capital
Capital planning is an integral part of an organization’s annual planning and forecasting process and a key module in Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS). Capital planning considers the capacity of existing resources to support operations and the capital assets needed for expansion. The process flow is as follows: Existing Assets Recognize and […]
EPBCS Business Process Module: Workforce
Labor-related expenses are often the largest variable expense on the P&L, and consequently labor planning deserves its own detailed module on the Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) platform. Oracle’s Workforce module addresses four facets of the labor planning process: 1. Compensation Planning Configurable framework for compensation and benefits Plan by employee, by job […]
Improve Business Processes with Order Management Cloud [Webinar]
According to IDC, by 2019, 50% of manufacturing supply chains will have benefited from digital transformation, with the remainder held back by outdated business models or functional structures. Improving business processes is a top supply chain priority, especially in a digitally enabled world. If you’re looking to modernize your supply chain by making a move […]
EPBCS Business Process Module: Financials
The Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) best practice planning framework begins with the Financials module. Recognizing that customers need flexibility when developing a bottoms-up plan/forecast, Oracle provides three methods for P&L planning: driver based, trend-based, or manual input. By selecting a few options for Balance Sheet and Cash Flow planning, customers can have […]
Perficient Solutions Architect Wins Awards for Kscope17 Session
Nearly 100 Kscope17 attendees attended a session by Doga Pamir, Solutions Architect, Perficient Oracle, that recently landed him two top honors: Best First-Time Speaker Award HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story Doga Pamir, Perficient Top Speaker Award (Financial Close) Financial Close – HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story Doga Pamir, Perficient Doga’s presentation, HFM […]
What is Oracle EPBCS?
The choice for larger organizations needing detailed, specialized models and real-time integration, Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) extends the Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) platform. As the name suggests, it is a perfect fit for both corporate finance as well as operational planners. It enables operational planners to budget via several […]
FCCS – An Introduction
For companies contemplating implementing FCCS, here is an insight of what you can expect. Oracle’s new product FCCS (Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud) was designed to replace HFM (Hyperion Financial Management). Since it is cloud based, subscribers eliminate the need for server maintenance and software upgrades and patches. FCCS incorporates pre-built out of the box […]
OBIEE Complex Data Security in Action
Earlier, I wrote a blog post about the presentation (Complex Data Security Made Easy in Oracle BI) that I delivered at Kscope17. I used a typical use case from a marketing organization as to how complex data security like team and position based hierarchies can be implemented via four different approaches in Oracle BI. When […]
OBIEE 12c Tips: Where is the opmnctl?
opmnctl is no longer available in OBIEE 12c. Instead, it provides you with a better way to start and stop BI servers and components. If you have a default OBIEE 12c install on Windows, you will find three new script files under <mw-home>/user_projects/domains/bi/bitools/bin: start.cmd for starting all or a list of BI servers and components stop.cmd for […]