Learn how to achieve financial transparency by combining Oracle PBCS and BICS.
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Oracle’s Planning Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) gives you rolling forecasts and lets you analyze variances and what if scenario's. When paired with Oracle’s Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), you can bridge the gap between reality and planning.
This Webinar covers how PBCS and BICS can help you:
Align Strategy with Business Objectives to achieve Financial Transparency
Quickly Adapt to Change
Leverage Information to make Informed Decisions
2. Today’s Speakers
Jenish Parekh
BI Solutions Architect
Matt Gualtieri
BI/EPM Practice Director
Shreeram Sharma
Senior EPM Consultant
Nina Sanders
Marketing Manager
3. Today’s Agenda
About Saturn Infotech
What is Oracle PBCS?
• PBCS Architecture
• Key Benefits of PBCS
• PBCS Features
• On Premise Vs Cloud
What is Oracle BICS?
• Benefits of BICS
• BICS Architecture
10 Minute Demo
4. Who are we?
We are qualified thought leaders, advisors
and partners focused on the delivery of
customized solutions for financial reporting,
planning, budgeting, forecasting and
analytics
Diverse Client-base
Fortune 500 organizations
Finance & Banking
Retail
Consumer Goods & Industrials
Technology
Pharma & Life Sciences
Public Sector and others
Recognition
Oracle Platinum Partners
specialized in:
Business Intelligence (BI)
Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM )
Big Data
Cloud Computing
About Saturn Infotech
5. Locations
Philadelphia - Headquarters
1120 Welsh Road, Suite 110
North Wales, PA 19454 USA
Atlanta – Branch Office
1401 Peachtree St NE, Suite# 500
Atlanta, GA 30309
Boston – Branch Office
400 Trade Center, Suite 5900,
Woburn, MA 01801
Dallas – Branch Office
800 E Campbell Rd, Suite 252
Richardson ,TX 75081
Chicago – Branch Office
8745 W. Higgins Rd, Suite#110
Chicago, IL-60631
Miami – Branch Office
6625 Miami Lakes Dr. East
Miami, FL 33014
250+ Consultants Globally,
with Coverage in almost
Every US State!
Saturn E-Solutions Pvt Ltd
Aundh - Hinjewadi Link Road
Pune 411057, India
Saturn Infotech Inc.
141 Cecil Street
Singapore
Saturn Infotech Arabia FZ LLC.
Dubai Internet City
Dubai, UAE
8. Cloud in an Enterprise Ecosystem
Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1971515
9. High-level Planning Cycle Process
High-Level Profit and Loss Targets Established by Major Business Segment and/or Region
Functional
Income
Statement by
Quarter
High-level Targets Communicated to Field
Business
Process Owners
Other Key
Stakeholders
High-level targets converted to Planning Drivers
Revenue & Expense
drivers produce
planning vales
Derived planning
assumptions
-Rate x Quantity% of
Total, etc.)
Planning levels
established
Entity, Currency,
Account, Cost Center
etc..
10. High-level Planning Considerations
• Financial and
Non-Financial
(Rates, %,
Previous Trends)
Planning Drivers
Centralized
• Legal Entity > Segment >
Product Line > Product
• Account Detail > Cost Center
> Functional Areas
• User Interface and Input
Sources (Excel, Flat File,
System Feed, Forms)
Planning
Dimensions • Work Flow and
approval based on
business role
• Financial
Transparency
Audit ID’s
Change
Management
and Process
• Support Actual
Variance Analyses
• Provides decision
support
Reporting
12. What is PBCS?
Oracle’s Planning and
Budgeting Cloud Service
(PBCS) is Oracle’s first EPM
cloud-based
application available in a
software as a service (SaaS)
deployment model.
It provides flexible
planning and
budgeting that’s
ready for the Cloud.
PBCS is based on Oracle
Hyperion Planning that
supports enterprise-wide
planning, budgeting, and
forecasting in a cloud-based
deployment model.
PBCS provides a rich Web
and Microsoft Office
enabled planning and
modeling framework that
supports driver-based
planning to connect
operational assumptions
and financial outcomes.
13. PBCS Features
2 environments (pre-prod & prod) are provided
The limit of 1 planning model managed by software
Each additional planning model requires a new subscription
of the cloud service
Resource Limit: 150 GB of total disk space for the Essbase
cubes and file system
PBCS does not include Planning modules (Capital Asset
Planning, Workforce Planning, Project Financial Planning)
Discount bands and migration credits are applicable as
appropriate
14. Benefits of PBCS
No. Topic Benefits
1 Cost Benefits • Subscription based
• No CAPEX infrastructure investments and no infrastructure barriers
• Minimum IT resources; owned by Line of Business
2 Time to value • No Installation
• Quick Implementation
3 Infrastructure Maintenance • Installations, Upgrades and Patching done by Oracle
4 Reporting Capabilities • Dynamic Web Forms
• Microsoft Office Add in for ad-hoc analysis
• Financial Reporting Studio Integration
5 Data Loading • Inbuilt Data and Metadata import export utility
• Inbuilt FDMEE (ETL Tool)
6 Simplicity • Virtually no learning curve
• Evolve from disconnected planning tools and spreadsheets
• Driving planning beyond finance across the enterprise
• Simplify technology choices with flexible deployment options
• Mix and move between deployment models as business needs change
• A web interface provides easy access to the Oracle Cloud, which is good for a distributed workforce
16. On Premise vs Cloud
On Premise
Set-up and Maintenance
Long Implementation
Out of box modules: CAPEX,
Workforce, Project Planning
Active directory hookup
Direct access to Essbase cubes
Cloud
No Set-up and Maintenance
Short Implementation
No out of box modules
Oracle Identity Manger for security
No access to backend
18. Casual Users Require Guidance
to Discover the Right Questions
Analysts Require Richness of
Functionality to Solve the Hard
Questions
Repeated Analysis Benefits from
Access to Managed Data
Agile Analysis Demands Data
Mashup against User Data
True Flexibility through Cloud
Architecture and Economics
Unchained Access through
Innovative Mobile Authoring
and Consumption
Any Question Any Data Any Time
What is Oracle BICS?
19. Benefits of BICS
No. Topics Benefits
1 Total Cost of Ownership • Subscription based
• Pay as you use
• Easy to enhance go enterprise wide.
2 Time to value • No Installation
• Quick Implementation by utilizing Saturn’s prebuilt analytics
3 Infrastructure Maintenance • Installations, Upgrades and Patching done by Oracle
4 Reporting Capabilities • Intuitive BI Analysis tools
• Visual Analyzer
• Dashboards
• Mobile Compatibility
5 Data Loading • Easy data load options
• Advanced data load tools
• RESTful APIs support
6 Database • Market leading Oracle DB on Cloud
• User friendly data modeling tools
7 Reports’ Logic • Utilizing old, tested and reliable queries
• Do not reinvent the wheel
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Nina- Today’s Agenda, About Saturn, What is Oracle PBCS, what is Oracle BICS, and at the end will be a 10 minute demo
About Saturn Slide
Saturn is BI, EPM, Big Data & Cloud specialized Oracle Platinum Partner. We have a diverse Client base made up of Fortune500 companies and have been recognized for fast growth and outstanding management by Inc. Magazine and other prestigious award programs.
Nina- Saturn is headquartered just outside Philadelphia. We have offices up and down the east coast, as well as Chicago and Texas.. We have over 250 consultants globally with coverage in nearly every US state
Nina- Here are just some of the clients that Saturn has worked with