Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Features

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting with Oracle Cloud EPM

Create Insight-Driven, Goal-Oriented Plans

Make smarter, faster decisions with driver-based planning that aligns with your business goals. Leverage interactive dashboards and real-time reports to monitor performance, while predictive planning helps identify the most effective path forward.

Unify Planning Across Your Business

Break down silos by integrating planning across finance, operations, and every line of business. Oracle’s connected planning capabilities allow you to instantly assess the impact of changes throughout your organization—ensuring better collaboration and alignment.

Scale Freeform Modeling with Confidence

With Oracle Cloud EPM Freeform, explore complex financial and operational scenarios using large-scale, flexible modeling. Build and test what-if scenarios, validate key assumptions, and minimize risk with advanced predictive planning tools.

Be Ready for Anything with Advanced Scenario Modeling

Quickly Adapt with Built-In Financial Intelligence

Harness Oracle’s robust financial intelligence tools to rapidly create and evaluate multiple “what-if” scenarios. Respond to change with speed and accuracy, and make informed decisions in real time.

Make Confident Decisions with Monte Carlo Simulations

Assess risk and forecast outcomes using Monte Carlo simulations. Gain a deeper understanding of scenario probabilities and strengthen your decision-making with data-backed insights.

Bridge Strategy and Execution

Evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions before they reach the operational stage. Analyze how changes affect your income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and overall shareholder value.

Optimize Capital and Funding Strategies

Explore various capital structure and funding scenarios to determine the best path forward. Understand how your strategies may influence credit ratings and long-term financial stability.

Plan Holistically Across All Financial Statements

Enhance Revenue Planning

Create precise revenue, sales, and gross margin forecasts by incorporating key business-specific drivers. Add custom dimensions to refine your revenue planning for greater accuracy and insight.

Comprehensive Expense Planning

Manage all expense categories using prebuilt, industry-standard drivers. Seamlessly integrate workforce and capital planning data to ensure complete expense visibility and alignment.

Integrated Balance Sheet Analysis

Gain a comprehensive financial view by aligning your balance sheet with income statement and cash flow data. Easily configure your planning model to meet industry-specific compliance and reporting needs.

Cash Flow Modeling Made Simple

Plan and forecast cash flow with confidence. Model operating cash across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons through fully integrated, dynamic cash flow planning.

Advanced Predictive Cash Forecasting

Automated Data Collection for a Complete Cash Overview

Streamline cash management by automating the aggregation of all critical data sources—including cash balances, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, taxes, and external bank feeds. Gain a reliable, consolidated view of your cash position from a single platform.

Enhance Cash Flow with Predictive Analytics

Leverage advanced predictive algorithms to generate accurate daily or weekly cash forecasts automatically. Improve forecast speed and precision, uncover potential issues, and identify opportunities sooner through increased automation and more frequent updates.

Accelerate Decision-Making and Response

Make faster, informed decisions with predictive cash forecasting. Align teams across your organization by using cash projections and scenario planning to evaluate options and implement operational or strategic actions quickly.

Retain Top Talent Through Strategic Workforce Planning

Plan Compensation Expenses with Precision

Forecast compensation-related costs by employee, job role, or at a level of detail tailored to your business needs, utilizing out-of-the-box, driver-based planning tools.

Align Finance and HR for Strategic Workforce Management

Collaborate seamlessly with HR to build the workforce required to meet your strategic objectives. Benefit from prebuilt integrations with Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) and other third-party cloud HCM platforms.

Simplify Complex Employee Expense Planning

Manage intricate employee expense calculations—including benefits, taxes, and more—using intuitive, wizard-driven planning tools designed for ease of use and accuracy.

Plan and Manage Your Capital Asset Expenses with Confidence

Track the Entire Capital Investment Lifecycle

Develop comprehensive cash flow and funding plans for both investments and leased assets. Plan for new capital acquisitions and utilize built-in calculations for depreciation and amortization throughout the asset’s lifespan.

Model Asset-Related Expenses with Ease

Effortlessly forecast expenses such as repairs and insurance, while automating key processes like asset retirements, transfers, and enhancements.

Manage Intangible Asset Planning

Effectively plan for intangible assets, covering amortization, cash flow considerations, and impairment assessments for both new and existing assets.

Comprehensive Capital Expense Analysis

Access detailed capital spending insights, including asset summaries and variance reports comparing actuals versus plans. Understand the impact on cash flow, balance sheets, and income statements by asset class and business unit.

Gain Complete Financial Visibility into Your Projects

Plan Across All Project Types

Utilize ready-made drivers to forecast costs for a wide range of projects—whether short-term internal initiatives like IT, R&D, and marketing, or complex contract-driven projects in industries such as construction, engineering, and professional services.

Detailed Cost and Revenue Planning

Accurately assess the financial implications of your projects by planning individual employee expenses, asset costs, and projected revenues using tailored drivers.

Monitor Project Performance Effectively

Track key financial metrics including project revenue, expenses, and cash flow with preconfigured indicators. Evaluate success through performance measures like net present value, payback period, and return on investment.

Integrate Business Planning and Execution(IBPx)

Turn Plans into Action and Monitor Proactively

Utilize IoT, AI, and prescriptive analytics to transform your plans into execution. Detect unexpected events early and simulate alternative responses to sustain or enhance business objectives.

Accelerate Decision-Making

Leverage real-time insights from planning and execution to quickly identify and address negative trends, reducing decision-making delays.

Unified View Across Processes

Enhance both short- and long-term strategic planning by integrating planning and execution within a single, consolidated data model for comprehensive visibility.

Empower Finance with Data-Driven Insights Using IPM

Harness Data Science and Machine Learning

IPM leverages advanced data science and machine learning to help finance professionals become more data-driven, driving impact across critical business areas and uncovering new opportunities.

Enhance Decision-Making with Predictive Planning

Discover and utilize patterns within your financial and operational data to boost forecasting accuracy. Integrate real-time actuals into your plans to support timely, objective decision-making.

Accelerate Action with AI-Powered Insights

Embedded AI and ML continuously monitor your plans, forecasts, and variances—alerting you to anomalies, biases, and hidden correlations. Receive relevant, actionable insights directly, enabling faster and more informed responses.