What is Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service?
Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud makes the functionality of Oracle's market-leading Hyperion Planning application available to customers in a software as a service (SaaS) deployment model. It's a flexible planning application with functionality that mirrors the latest functional feature set of Hyperion Planning on-premises and delivers those features in a Cloud-friendly fashion.
Five key features of EPBCS are Strategic Modeling - long-range financial modeling to evaluate the impact of opportunities and threats; Financials - fully integrated financial statement planning across the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow; Workforce - Financial Workforce Planning for compensation spend by employee and/or job code; Projects - Project financial planning for project-oriented industries and departments (e.g. IT, Marketing, R&D, etc.); Capital - a Capital Asset process for detailed planning on the impact of new and existing assets.
Also included is the powerful Excel add-in, Smart View, for ad-hoc analysis and Excel-based interactions with your plan, integrate d predictive planning capabilities that allow you to create forecasts based on historical actual data, and support for hybrid cloud deployments with deep integration to on-premise systems.
Key benefits for your organization include:
- Best practices out-of-the-box to get you up and running in no time
- Tailoring to your specific requirements with a configurable, upgradable planning framework
- Scalability to address both operational and finance planning processes
- Intuitive business wizards allow you to adjust your planning process as your business evolves
- Powerful dashboards, analytics, what if, and predictive capabilities give you improved insight into your business
- No capex infrastructure investments required in the cloud.
MindStream Analytics can help your company implement EPBCS and its full scope of capabilities.
Our Company
MindStream Analytics is a leading consulting firm focused on helping clients improve business understanding and decision making. With years of experience in the analytics and Business Performance Management area, MindStream offers services ranging from software selection and implementation to best practices for financial planning.
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