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Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

Score7.6 out of 10

181 Reviews and Ratings

What is Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management?

Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a solution that helps users model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales, streamline the financial close process.

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Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in Usage
Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise Deployment
Planning and Forecasting - Decision-Oriented Plans with Instant Feedback Loop - What-If Modeling and Sandbox
Process and Workflow - Flexible Workflow and Process Management - Annotations - Concurrency in Usage
User Interface - Role-Based, Intuitive User Interface - Role-Based Navigation Flows - Microsoft Office Interface
Integration - External Integration - Oracle ERP Systems and Hybrid On-Premise Deployment

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Top Performing Features

  • Excel-based Reporting

    Ad hoc or formatted reports using MS Excel.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Publish to Web

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Predictive Analytics

    Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Report Formatting Templates

    Category average: 7.4

Oracle EPM cloud helps aligns with Business Strategy execution and to make data-Informed decisions faster

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Oracle Cloud EPM for consolidation, planning, budgeting, and forecast processes. We also use the financial reporting modules for reports.

Pros

  • Setup and configuration are not that complex
  • User interface is easy to navigate
  • Reporting and SmartView ad-hoc reports provide self-serve options for users

Cons

  • Can be combined into a single platform/application
  • Integration for metadata and hierarchy management can be streamlined

Return on Investment

  • It will meet our objectives within two to three years

Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Fusion primarily as our ERP solution for the modules General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and Multiperiod Accounting. It is fully an integrated solution with SAP Concur and our Treasury Management Solution, GTreasury. The Oracle Fusion EPM allows us to produce consolidated financial statements in a timely manner.

Pros

  • Integration
  • Modular based
  • Easily accessible

Cons

  • Financial close enhancements
  • Speed and performance particularly with data loads
  • UX I.e. navigation and layout

Return on Investment

  • Produce reports faster
  • Produce reports more accurately

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Anaplan and OneStream

Other Software Used

Anaplan, SAP Concur, GTreasury, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Just starting to dip our big toe into EPBCS

Pros

  • It mimics HSF, but doesn't require the infrastructure or upgrades that HSF does.

Cons

  • Currently there is a big functionality gap, in that iterations of models cannot be saved off unless scripts are written to do this. Oracle has promised Direct Migration functionality will be available in their May release.

Return on Investment

  • No real impact as of yet...pretty much mimics what we had in HSF.

Alternatives Considered

none

Oracle EPM does the job for consolidation, planning, and analytical reporting to gain insights into your business

Pros

  • Consolidation
  • Planning and budgeting
  • Data management
  • Reporting
  • Smartview

Cons

  • Adoption of API with other products such as reporting into Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI
  • Data integration with Salesforce platform

Return on Investment

  • ROI
  • Ease of use
  • Intuitive

Alternatives Considered

BlackLine

Oracle Cloud EPM - Next Big Thing

Pros

  • Downtime is really low
  • Latency issues are rare as the instances are available in the nearby regions
  • Reports are more useful and can be tailor made by everyone as per their use case

Cons

  • Initial onboarding is a bit rocky and the performance is not up to the mark
  • Unintuitive navigation
  • At times data retrieval works at a snail's pace

Return on Investment

  • Analysts are able to focus on more sophisticated analysis and basic reporting is now taken care of by Oracle Cloud EPM
  • No need to maintain hardware across geographies
  • Planning is more data driven