Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 1 · The Cloud EPM and EDM Landscape
The planning family
Lesson 6 of 201 · 2 min
Five of them, same shape each time: name, one-sentence job, who buys it, platform implications. Planning. Subscription-based planning and budgeting — web and Microsoft Office interfaces, driver-based modelling, rolling forecasts, management reporting. Built on Essbase for calculation. Planning Modules. Prebuilt solutions with best-practice content for Financials, Workforce, Projects and Capital, plus Strategic Modeling for long-range scenario work. Forms, calculations, dashboards, drivers and KPIs delivered rather than built. FreeForm. Flexible reporting and planning without the prescribed structure, and notable for you specifically: existing on-premises Essbase applications can be migrated into it. Sales Planning. Quota planning, advanced sales forecasting, key account planning — delivered as an application type within Planning. Strategic Workforce Planning. Long-range skills and headcount planning, also an application type in Planning. The platform implications to flag. These are Essbase-backed, which shows up in the monitoring module's activity report statistics. They use Calculation Manager. They support Smart View, Predictive Planning…
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In this module: Module 1 · The Cloud EPM and EDM Landscape
- 1A suite, not a productFree preview
- 2The planning family
- 3The close and consolidation family
- 4The analysis and reporting family
- 5Enterprise Data Management and Cloud EDM
- 6The platform underneathFree preview
- 7Navigating an environment
- 8Where the Center of Excellence fits
- 9Lab: name the suite, scope three clients, draw the platform