This article is part of the monthly Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) Update Series from eCapital Advisors. On a monthly basis, experts at eCapital Advisors review the Oracle PBCS release notes to provide a look at the latest features and changes users & administrators must know about to manage their financial planning software environment properly.
As part of the review of Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud March Release (17.03), the eCapital team highlighted a few key areas on video and prepared a full-length video recording of their PBCS review. Highlighted areas for March include a rolling forecast, translation information, financial integration, enhanced project analysis, and a new EPM Automate utility.
The members of the eCapital Advisors team who have prepared this month’s update are Bob Usset and Ryan Koelher. Bob Usset is an Oracle implementation expert with degrees in both Information System and Finance from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Bob has been working on Oracle Hyperion implementations since 2010. During this time Bob has delivered several Hyperion implementations for a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, retail, and consumer products. Ryan Koelher has successfully implemented a variety of complex allocation models, driver-based strategic forecasting and budgeting systems, and operational reporting solutions. Ryan’s area of expertise includes Supply Chain, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. For the last 7 years, Ryan has been providing Essbase, Planning, FDMEE, and other Oracle technology solutions to some of North America’s most innovative companies.
Check out all the video and slides from the March 2017 Oracle PBCS Monthly update below.
FULL OUTLINE – MARCH 2017 ORACLE PBCS UPDATE
- Follow Up To February 2017 Update
- What is PBCS?
- Rolling Forecast
- Translation Information
- Financial Integration
- Enhanced Project Analysis
- Activity Report Update
- Simplified Interface for Manage Approvals
- New EPM Automate Utility
- Retirement of Classic Planning Interface
- Reporting Studio – Desktop Client
- Q & A
Q&A – MARCH 2017 ORACLE PBCS UPDATE
- Have you seen organizations start to adopt a workflow or manage approvals?
- How do you feel about report Oracle response times with Oracle PBCS?
VIDEOS – MARCH 2017 ORACLE PBCS UPDATE
SLIDES – MARCH 2017 ORACLE PBCS UPDATE
ABOUT ORACLE PLANNING AND BUDGETING CLOUD SERVICE (PBCS)
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service is a planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution used by many large, medium and small companies worldwide to solve enterprise-wide business planning use cases. Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service provides a rich Web and Microsoft Office work environment that has solved a wide variety of financial, sales and operational planning use cases across multiple industries.
ABOUT THE ORACLE PBCS MONTHLY UPDATE SERIES
Every month, experts at eCapital Advisors review and test the latest release of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). As part of the update, eCapital Advisors covers new features, significant announcements, and customer questions in a monthly webinar and highlight videos. The Oracle PBCS Monthly Update Series helps customers stay up-to-date on the latest features developed by Oracle, aware of critical changes, and answers pressing customer questions. Subscribe at https://ecapitaladvisors.com/oraclepbcsupdate/
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