Product Review

Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud takes your confusing budgeting application or existing Excel spreadsheets and makes them into a world-class budgeting application. This Cloud solution will reduce your plan cycle time, increase timeliness of information for business decisions, and improve accuracy in forecasts. And this book is the key to get there! Look Smarter Than You Are with Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud will walk you through how to build a Planning & Budgeting Cloud application from start to finish, step by step. We will also cover the end user features and functions for entering, reporting, and analyzing your data.

You will learn:
•Best practices for setting up your Oracle EPM Cloud Instance
•How to build an Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud Application from start to finish:
oDefine the application
oBuild dimensions and integrate data
oCalculate data
oAssign security
oBuild reports, dashboards and more
•How to administer and automate your solution
•How to migrate to and from on-premise Hyperion Planning
•All of the end user features and functions like entering plans, running business rules, sandboxing, and more
•The web user interface and the Smart View Excel interface

*Refresher course highlighting Essbase basics also included