1. ORACLE OVERVIEW
ORACLE CORPORATE
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
KEY FEATURES
Oracle’s comprehensive suite of E-Business Corporate Performance
ORACLE BALANCED
SCORECARD: Management (CPM) applications enables organizations to create
• Monitor Achievement -- greater business insight and achieve world-class performance by
Compare performance
against industry peers, aligning the right information and resources to strategic objectives.
internal plans or budgets,
Oracle's CPM products deliver business intelligence, planning and
historical data, and more.
Analyze performance by budgeting, consolidation, profitability management, and analysis
business unit, product,
geography, sales channel, and reporting capabilities across your enterprise. Oracle Corporate
and more
Performance Management helps managers formulate strategies for
• Enable Strategic Feedback --
Enable employees to profitable growth, align strategies with operational plans, actively
collaborate on root cause
analysis and corrective action monitor day-to-day operations, and collaborate across the
plans. Capture feedback
enterprise. A unified data model provides a single, accurate view of
automatically in a knowledge
repository to support enterprise- wide information, promoting transparency, actionable
organizational learning
• Integrate with Oracle Daily
analysis, and rapid execution. And when Oracle Corporate
Business Intelligence -- Draw Performance Management runs on Oracle technology, you speed
on hundreds of pre-built KPIs
on custom dashboards and implementation, optimize performance, streamline support — and
drill-down reports. Speed
implementation and reporting maximize ROI.
with KPIs that are already
mapped to E-Business Suite
tables Align Operations with Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy begins with understanding all aspects of your business.
ORACLE ENTERPRISE Once you create your strategic plans, you want to ensure successful
PLANNING AND BUDGETING:
execution by defining the goals and metrics up-front, aligning the resources
• Control the Planning Process
to meet the objectives, and clearly communicating throughout the process
-- Define repeatable and
transparent processes to what is needed to achieve success. In addition, if changes are made to the
collect, review and approve plan, those changes need to be communicated throughout the organization,
budgets and forecasts. Share
business driver and model
so that those responsible for influencing the business on a daily basis can
definitions across the adjust their plans.
enterprise
• Deliver Timely Information to
the Right People -- Leverage Oracle’s integrated solution lets you define metrics that reflect your
business logic built into the strategy, and set target values for these shared metrics. Scorecards expose
application to manage the
flow of information. Deliver the status of key business drivers by establishing the cause-effect
analysis via enterprise portal relationships between metrics. Tolerance levels can be set for each metric to
or email, assemble briefing
enable automatic notification of deviations. Oracle’s planning and
books, or export to a set of
spreadsheets budgeting capabilities let you formulate top down and bottom up operating
• Tune Plans to Improve plans and budgets, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy. Oracle
Results -- Accelerate revised
delivers well-defined business processes to assist in this effort, and those
data entry by automatically
preparing and distributing processes include business rules, roles and schedules, all of which allow
worksheets. Investigate you to make more timely decisions and increase the accountability behind
1

2. ORACLE OVERVIEW
alternative what-if scenarios them. Ad-hoc analysis and monitoring capabilities are integrated with
using dynamic business
calculations planning and budgeting, allowing managers to understand how well the
business and its performance matches the plan. As a result, managers can
ORACLE PROFITABILITY adjust plans and budgets as needed. This continuous link between strategy,
MANAGER: plans, and performance is critical in achieving the overall objectives.
• Multi-dimensional Model --
allows analysis and reporting
of profitability along any
Actively Manage Risk
dimension including products,
channels, segments, and In today’s regulatory environment, no organization can afford surprises.
even individual customers Actively managing risk means having a strong handle over day-to-day
• Open to Any Methodology For
operations at all times. Oracle Corporate Performance Management allows
Any Industry -- including
sophisticated Activity-Based managers to monitor performance through personalized dashboards and
costing methods alerts. The solution delivers timely, relevant information that allows
• Calculate Customer
business leaders to evaluate risk and make adjustments to account for risk.
Profitability -- adjusted for risk,
and prioritize customers by Custom, graphical scorecards display performance results and let users click
value on any indicator to perform more detailed analysis. Role-specific
managerial reports incorporate charts, graphs, and key performance
ORACLE FINANCIAL indicators (KPIs) with the flexibility to view them across various time
CONSOLIDATION HUB: periods. Because Oracle’s CPM solution is integrated with your transaction
• Strengthen Confidence in
systems, users can navigate directly to any related function of the system to
Financial Results and
Controls -- Tight integration take corrective action as necessary and prevent period-end surprises. In
between financial reporting addition, Oracle provides auditability of the information you report through
and compliance certification
a unified view into financial results, business performance, and underlying
processes helps you meet
accelerated reporting internal controls.
deadlines and expanded
disclosure requirements
• Quickly Adapt to Changing
Collaborate Across the Enterprise
Business Conditions -- An
open architecture that Information-rich collaboration speeds decision making while improving the
rationalizes data from quality of those decisions. No matter how good the process, decisions will
disparate systems into a
single, actionable source of
never be as good as they can be if decision makers do not have a consistent
truth will allow you to adapt to and common base of information. Without it, there is no way to ensure
changing business
forecasts, plans, and budgets all tie together. Leveraging Oracle’s single,
requirements
• Provide a Basis for complete data model with just one definition of customers, suppliers,
Enterprise-Wide Performance products, people, etc. enables sharing of consistent, accurate information
Management -- A unified
across all business functions so good decisions can be made and
analytic platform provides a
foundation for evaluating understood. Even in fragmented, heterogeneous environments, Oracle can
business strategies, and aggregate data securely from multiple systems for use within the business,
aligning strategies with
operational plans
as well as beyond.
ORACLE DAILY BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE:
• Implements in Days Or
Weeks -- to provide the
fastest path to information
from the Oracle E-Business
Suite
• Drill Directly from Summary
Information to Transaction
2

3. ORACLE OVERVIEW
Data – without impact to the
transactional systems or end Oracle Corporate Performance Management
user training
Oracle Corporate Performance Management delivers key functionality
• Customizable and Extensible
– to Oracle and non-Oracle
across all vertical segments, including the public sector. Your business
data sources priorities drive which products you implement. Begin anywhere and expand
• 50+ Dashboards, 300+ KPIs,
as you achieve success, or extend third party products that you already have
800+ reports delivered out of
the box, leveraging EBS
in place.
security, hierarchies, and
setups
The core Oracle products that support CPM today are:
Oracle Balanced Scorecard
KEY BENEFITS: Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
• Formulate strategies for
Oracle Financial Consolidation Hub
profitable growth
• Align strategies with Oracle Profitability Manager
operational plans
• Actively monitor day-to- Oracle Public Sector Budgeting
day operations
• Collaborate across the
Oracle Daily Business Intelligence
enterprise
RELATED PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES:
• Oracle BI 10g with OLAP
option
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Oracle Warehouse Builder
RELATED SERVICES
The following services are
available from Oracle
Support Services:
• Update Subscription
Services
• Product Support Services
• OnlineDBA
• OnlineDBA for
Applications
Copyright 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
This document is provided for information purposes only, and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This
document is not warranted to be error-free, nor is it subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or
implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We
specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document, and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or
indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission.
Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other
names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
3