Building

from the Ground up

EPBCS

A cloud-based solution from Oracle that streamlines enterprise-wide planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Powered by Oracle Essbase, EPBCS delivers robust analytics, driver-based modeling, and real-time collaboration, helping businesses improve decision-making, reduce planning cycles, and adapt quickly to change—all while benefiting from the scalability and accessibility of the cloud.

Let’s open the hood and take a look at EPBCS from a technical perspective…

Groovy

Groovy scripting in EPBCS unlocks powerful customization and dynamic functionality, enabling advanced calculations, validations, and real-time interactivity. With Groovy, you can create dynamic data forms that respond to user inputs, apply conditional logic, and execute complex, context-aware calculations directly in the application. It also enhances performance by targeting calculations to specific data slices, reducing processing time. Whether automating tasks, validating data, or customizing workflows, Groovy scripts add flexibility and intelligence to EPBCS, empowering users to tailor solutions to their unique business needs.

Intelligent Performance Management

Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) leverages predictive analytics and machine learning to enhance planning and decision-making. It helps users identify trends, uncover patterns, and generate accurate forecasts by analyzing historical data and external drivers. With IPM, planners can create “what-if” scenarios, test assumptions, and gain actionable insights to address uncertainties and optimize outcomes. By integrating advanced analytics into the planning process, IPM empowers organizations to make data-driven, forward-looking decisions that drive better business performance.

dATA mANAGEMENT

Data Management serves as a robust integration and transformation tool, enabling seamless data flow between source systems and EPBCS applications. It allows users to import, export, map, and transform data with ease, ensuring consistency and accuracy across planning processes. With its intuitive interface, Data Management supports automated data loads, error handling, and audit trails, streamlining the integration of ERP, HCM, and other external systems. This capability ensures that organizations have reliable, up-to-date data for effective planning, forecasting, and reporting.

Articles about EPBCS

Launching a Business Rule using REST API

Let’s start simple… Kicking off a Business Rule using REST API. Step 1 – Setting up connection, let’s take a look… Read more about it…

EXPORTDATASLICE REST API – Python

A bit nerdy… but definitely a cool tool. It could be useful if you need to customize a report or use it as an offline template… Read more about it…

Updating Attribute using SmartList and Groovy

A Groovy rule to update the Attribute Dimension using Smart List… Read more about it…

Oracle Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) – Auto Predict

Auto Predict – What a fun tool to test out and here is my findings… Read more about it…

Get Scenario Properties using Groovy

Capturing the member properties of a scenario member… Read more about it…

Prevent users from submitting zeros

No more submitting zeros on a form… Read more about it…

Map variables in Groovy

Why is Map variable so powerful… Read more about it…