Profitability and Cost Management
Discover and Act on Hidden Profit and Loss
Empower business users with the insight and flexibility to discover the many dimensions of profitability
Allocation Engine
Open
Source data and drivers from anywhere—not limiting calculations to data in ERP, and combining financial data with operational metrics and dimensions
Enterprise Quality
Address complex requirements, such as multi-tiered and a recursive allocations
Controlled and Transparent
Eliminate the “black box” syndrome found in ERP and custom built solutions with step-by-step validation reports for post allocation data integrity
Scalable
Suitable for granular, ledger-level allocations, with extensions to operational dimensions
Secure
Deploy a fully-secure, cloud-based application with role and data access rights
Model Builder
Easy to Use
Take the mystery out of building and maintaining profitability models and put the business users back in control with point-and-click model administration
Governance
Leverage business drivers, allocation methods, and metadata that are standardized for consistent usage across all models
Accessible to Business Users
Empower business and operational users around the enterprise to take ownership of allocations instead of relying on IT for all changes in assumptions
Multiple Uses
Take advantage of multiple enterprise-wide, as well as departmental uses, including IT service costing, shared service allocations, profitability by product/customer/channel, cost transparency, and operational transfer pricing
Analysis
Dashboards and Reports
Allow users to visualize data in real time without the need to export data to business intelligence (BI) using configurable dashboards
Prebuilt Analytics and KPIs
Access prebuilt analytics for difficult queries such as “profit curves” that reveal hidden drags on profitability
Ad Hoc Analysis
Provide unparalleled slicing and dicing of multidimensional data with Smart View
Variance Analysis and What-If Analysis
Quickly change assumptions, run multiple scenarios, and perform what-if analysis, such as “What if we change the driver from headcount to revenue?”
Mobile Enabled
Get a tablet-friendly user experience for easy, on-the-go access
Integration
Application Integration
Connect to virtually any source ERP applications, such as Oracle ERP Cloud and other Oracle EPM applications
Easy Integration with Oracle and Other Source Systems
Leverage existing IT investments and quickly integrate data from multiple sources including spreadsheets and native databases
Enterprise Awareness
Achieve integrated financial decisions driven by multiple sources of financial impacts