Enterprise performance management (EPM) is a process that helps organizations plan, budget, forecast, and report on their business performance, as well as consolidate and finalize their financial results. EPM software enables managers to analyze, understand, and report on their data, and use it to make better business decisions.

Oracle EPM is a cloud-based EPM platform that provides a complete and integrated solution for managing all aspects of enterprise performance. Oracle EPM helps organizations gain the agility and insights they need to outperform in any market condition. With Oracle EPM, you can:

• Model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales
• Streamline the financial close process and ensure compliance
• Drive profitability and cost optimization
• Enhance narrative reporting and disclosure management
• Leverage advanced analytics and artificial intelligence
• Connect data across your entire organization
• Trust the acknowledged leader in EPM

Model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales

Oracle EPM enables you to create connected plans that align your strategy with your execution. You can seamlessly integrate data from multiple sources, such as ERP, HCM, CRM, and external sources, and use it to build forecasts and scenarios that update automatically as your business changes. You can also leverage advanced technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics, to generate data-driven insights and recommendations that help you optimize your plans.

Streamline the financial close process and ensure compliance

Oracle EPM helps you accelerate the financial close process and deliver accurate and timely financial statements. You can automate and standardize the consolidation and reporting process, reduce errors and risks, and ensure compliance with global accounting standards and regulations. You can also simplify and improve the account reconciliation process by using automation and best practices. With Oracle EPM, you can trust your numbers and report with confidence.

Drive profitability and cost optimization

Oracle EPM helps you understand the drivers of profitability and cost across your organization. You can model complex scenarios, such as product profitability, customer profitability, cost allocations, transfer pricing, and shared services costing. You can also perform what-if analysis and sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of different assumptions and actions on your profitability and cost. With Oracle EPM, you can make informed decisions that maximize your bottom line.

Enhance narrative reporting and disclosure management

Oracle EPM helps you create compelling narrative reports that communicate your performance story to internal and external stakeholders. You can automate the creation of reports that combine financial and operational data with narrative analysis, such as management discussion and analysis (MD&A), board reports, earnings releases, regulatory filings, sustainability reports, and integrated reports. You can also streamline the review and approval process, ensure data accuracy and consistency, and comply with disclosure requirements.

Leverage advanced analytics and artificial intelligence

Oracle EPM helps you harness the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to gain deeper insights into your business performance. You can use built-in dashboards and visualizations to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends. You can also use natural language processing (NLP) to ask questions in plain language and get answers in charts or tables. Moreover, you can use natural language generation (NLG) to generate narrative summaries of your data. Additionally, you can use machine learning to discover hidden patterns, anomalies, outliers, correlations, and drivers of your performance.

Connect data across your entire organization

Oracle EPM helps you create a single source of truth for your enterprise performance data. You can use Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM) to centrally manage your master data across different applications and systems. You can also use Oracle Data Integration Platform (DIP) to seamlessly integrate data from various sources into Oracle EPM. Furthermore, you can use Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) to store your data in a secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud database.

Trust the acknowledged leader in EPM

Oracle EPM is consistently recognized as a leader in EPM by industry analysts and customers alike. Oracle EPM has thousands of customers across various industries and regions who rely on it to manage their enterprise performance. Oracle EPM also has a strong partner ecosystem that provides consulting, implementation, training, support, and value-added services. With Oracle EPM, you can benefit from the best practices, innovations, and expertise of the leading EPM provider.

Conclusion

Oracle EPM is a comprehensive solution for enterprise performance management that helps you model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales; streamline the financial close process; drive profitability; enhance narrative reporting; leverage advanced analytics; connect data; trust the leader.