Oracle Enterprise Planning (PBCS/EPBCS)
Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service is a planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that can be licensed separately or as part of EPM Cloud. We at BLUBEIRD Consulting will be happy to advise you in deciding which license combination is the right one for your company and your use case.
This enterprise planning solution is aimed at large, medium and small companies and is used by many companies worldwide. The Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting cloud service provides a rich web and Microsoft Office work environment that has solved a variety of financial, sales and operational planning use cases across multiple industries.
The product launch is not only supported but also accelerated by a variety of pre-designed modules and best practices approaches.
The business benefits
- No hardware or IT investments
- Fully customizable and owned by Lines of Business
- Migrate from disconnected planning tools and spreadsheets
- Work with latest version of the software
- Multiple environments and global data centers for deployment
- Seamless monthly patching• Low cost and time to implement
- Customize solution to your specific business need
Key Features
- Intuitive, role-based web and MS Office interfaces
- Flexible driver based what if modelling capabilities
- Built in financial intelligence and spreading logic
- Built-in commentary and annotation capabilities
- Flexible workflow and plan management capabilities
- Automated integration from Oracle and other ERP systems
- Oracle security and reliability of all Oracle Cloud deployments
- Robust reporting and ad-hoc analysis with formatting and charting
Modeling with sandboxing and predictive analytics features
Companies today are faced with a rapidly changing business environment. Demand is volatile, costs fluctuate and the supplier landscape is constantly changing. A key requirement to stay ahead of the competition is to quickly understand this volatility and model for these financial and operational changes, based on rapidly changing assumptions.
The Oracle Planning and Budgeting cloud service provides sophisticated modeling and predictive analytics capabilities that allow users to create multiple functions. “What if” versions and slice-and-dice data based on various what-if assumptions.
The Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting cloud service also has a rolling forecast wizard that makes it easy to implement a driver-based rolling forecast process. The time horizon of the forecast continues constantly over the months you specify, beyond the individual years and is limited only by the end of the year.
Overview of the Enterprise Planning modules
The business planning modules include complete planning and budgeting solutions for finance, human resources, capital and projects. These business processes include predefined best practice content such as input forms, calculations, dashboards, drivers and key performance indicators (KPIs). Input forms can be integrated into dashboards and reports that dynamically reflect your data, plans, and forecasts.
Financials (Financials – Module)
The Financials solution provides integrated driver-based planning for income statement, balance sheet and cash flow. With out-of-the-box tools such as KPIs, drivers, and accounts, you can create reports faster. You can also use financials data to perform expense and revenue planning.
Personnel (Workforce – Module)
The Workforce solution enables workforce and compensation planning to link financial plans to the workforce plan. You can budget future headcount and related personnel costs such as salary, benefits and taxes.
Projects (Projects – Module)
The Projects solution bridges the gap between project planning systems and the financial planning process. It allows you to assess the impact of organizational projects and initiatives on overall resources to ensure they are in line with your short- and long-term financial goals.
Capital (Capital – Module)
The capital solution allows you to plan the long-term impact of capital assets on financial plans to manage, prioritize and schedule capital costs.
Strategic Modeling
(Strategic Modeling – Module)
The Strategic Modeling solution combines a comprehensive set of financial forecasting and modeling capabilities with integrated scenario analysis and modeling capabilities for long-term strategic planning. It enables you to check structural changes in the company – e.g. the merger of two business units or changes in the product structure – and their effects on certain KPIs – e.g. sales or costs – in advance.
Overview: Tour of Enterprise Planning (formerly PBCS/EPBCS)
How to Start with Enterprise Planning
Other Oracle EPM Cloud components:
- Financial Consolidation and Close (formerly FCCS)
- Planning (formerly EPBCS)
- Account Reconciliation (formerly ARCS)
- Profitability and Cost Management (formerly PCMCS)
- Tax Reporting (formerly TRCS)
- Enterprise Data Management (formerly EDMCS)
- Narrative Reporting (formerly EPRCS)
- The BLUEBIRD EPMViewer for Cloud applications
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