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Just starting to dip our big toe into EPBCS
Updated January 30, 2020

Just starting to dip our big toe into EPBCS

Greg Grey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Oracle EPM Cloud

Being used by our Corporate FP&A department for Strategic Modeling and Budgeting.
  • It mimics HSF, but doesn't require the infrastructure or upgrades that HSF does.
  • 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.
We are utilizing FCCS for our consolidation and close.
We are not utilizing reporting as of yet.
It was a great "first cloud project" for our organization.
  • No real impact as of yet...pretty much mimics what we had in HSF.
Yes - OAUG
  • none
EPBCS is excellent for Strategic Modeling.

Oracle Cloud EPM Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Scenario modeling
8
Management reporting
Not Rated
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
3
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
Not Rated
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
Not Rated
Automated board and financial reporting
Not Rated
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
Not Rated
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
Not Rated
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated
BI Standard Reporting ()
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
Not Rated
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated

Oracle EPM Cloud Decision Factors

About a 70/30 split between grow/run...any new initiatives are evaluated on business value.
Quite honestly, Oracle Cloud was the natural progression out of HFM and HSF. There was a fair amount of involvement from our Procurement area in the negotiations with Oracle, but ultimately it was the call of our App Dev leadership to go with Oracle Cloud EPM.
  • Avoiding an on-premise upgrade
  • Avoiding the need for infrastructure/overhead
It's not overly important...as a matter of fact, it can be a deterrent because if you're experiencing frustration with a vendor, say, in the EPM space, that frustration will be exponentially multiplied if you're using the same vendor for ERP, HCM, etc.
Not important at all...Oracle Cloud EPM is not industry-specific anyway.

Adoption, and Customer Service

Support from our implementation partner is a 10/10, but support from Oracle is awful. Case in point: recently over a 2-day period, there were a series of intermittent outages. Oracle actually asked US for the outage time-stamps. I would have thought that, since we were paying them, they should probably be able to tell us!
The product generally works fine, but the powers-that-be aren't sold at all on Oracle as a partner.
  • Yes