Posts Tagged ‘financial consolidation and close’

Finance leaders from Cardtronics and Allegis Group with more than three years of combined experience using Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close joined Perficient and Oracle for a panel discussion regarding their cloud journey.  Richard Ng, Director, Financial Systems, Cardtronics, and John Oliphant, Financial Developer Lead Allegis Group, shared the stories of their organizations’ migration from […]

Finance leaders from Cardtronics and Allegis Group with more than three years of combined experience using Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close joined Perficient and Oracle for a panel discussion regarding their cloud journey.  Richard Ng, Director, Financial Systems, Cardtronics, and John Oliphant, Financial Developer Lead Allegis Group, shared the stories of their organizations’ migration from […]

BETTER DATA MOVEMENT ACROSS APPLICATIONS Smart Push is a Forms feature available in Planning, Financial Consolidation and Close, and Tax Reporting which permits the movement of data from one cube to another. This movement, or push, occurs instantaneously during execution (click here for options on configuring when the push occurs). Smart Push uses Data Maps […]

If your organization is either currently on, or considering a move to, Oracle Cloud EPM Financial Consolidation and Close, we have assembled an outstanding panel of finance leaders from various industries who will share their experience implementing and deploying Financial Consolidation and Close, as well as tangible business outcomes. Join us for a live virtual […]

Goal setting occurs every year for leaders and their respective teams across all areas of an organization. Technical enhancements, process improvements, training, etc. are all typical goal topics which definitely deserve their place on the priority list. However, special consideration should be given to goals that require collaboration between teams within the organization. Finance and […]

Let’s not kid ourselves. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) implementations are not easy. The complexity surrounding EPM processes and requirements grows by the day (probably an understatement). We can probably all agree that this is the natural evolution of things for one reason or another. Luckily, Oracle’s suite of EPM solutions provide technical features to solve […]

Oracle EPM customers need to prepare for several upcoming changes for November 2021. These changes are mentioned in the Important Actions and Considerations section of the October Update documentation. The documentation can be found here. While the updates highlighted in this post are not critical in nature, administrators and power users should be aware in […]

Oracle’s EPM September release contains three key updates. These three updates impact Smart View users, customers using Data Management, and those using journals within Financial Consolidation and Close. Continue reading below for explanations of each!   Smart View – Drill to All Levels in Base A new option named “Drill to All Levels in Base” […]

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) has long been the application used by organizations all over the globe to streamline and automate their financial consolidation and close processes. However, those days are coming to an end. With the onset of the cloud, now is the time to adopt best practices and streamline your consolidation process. Oracle’s Financial […]

Starting with the 20.09 update, Oracle will cease supporting Internet Explorer as a compatible browser for EPM Cloud applications. This will leave Edge, Chrome, and Firefox ESR as the remaining supported browsers for Windows users. The move away from Internet Explorer is due to the fact that Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 11 is […]

Subject matter experts in Perficient’s Oracle practice published more than 100 blog posts in 2019!  Many thanks to the team for taking the time to share your thoughts as well as tips and tricks with our readers. Below are the top five Oracle blog posts authored by the Oracle practice in 2019, ranked in order […]

Even those of us that don’t work for the office of finance know that anything that can be done to speed the close process is worth a closer look. My colleague, Matt Hopkins, delivered a great webinar on this topic earlier this month – Shorten the Period-Close and Pivot from Collecting Data to Analysis. This […]