February 14, 2019
What’s New in Oracle PBCS
Feb 2019
Steve Hitchman, Solution Director
Ahmed Hafez, Practice Manager
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Agenda
✓Introduction
• What’s New
– Within PBCS
– Usage Innovations
• What’s Coming
• Q&A
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Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud
Built on over 15
years of Product
Innovation
Customers in
all industry
sectors
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Higher Ed, Consumer Goods, Natural
Resources, Engineering, Retail,
Professional Services, High Tech
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End Users Globally – the
fastest growing Planning tool in
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Available and
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Analysts for the
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the market
4,250+
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Oracle EPM Cloud Platform
4
WEB
SOCIALMOBILE
COMMON USER EXPERIENCE
DATA, METADATA & APPLICATION MODELS
COMMON INFRASTRUCTURE
INTELLIGENCE & AUTOMATION
STANDARDIZED PUBLIC INTERFACES
EPM CLOUD PLATFORM
LINES OF BUSINESS
COLLABORATION MARKETPLACE
INTEGRATIONS
SELF SERVICEVISUALIZATION
SalesITHROperations
ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT & REGULATORY REPORTING
ORACLE EPM CLOUD
FinanceMarketing
Shared Services Costing
Long Range Planning
Driver Based Planning
Financial Planning
Zero Based Budgeting
Account Reconciliation
Fin. Consolidation & Close
Tax Provision & Reporting
Transfer Pricing
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February 14, 2019
Today’s Session
Live demo focus
New Features
Reminder on existing features
Tips and tricks
What’s coming
Mix of user and administrator
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Monthly patch cycle
https://cloud.oracle.com/saas/
readiness?offering=planning-
and-budgeting
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Agenda
• Introduction
• What’s New
✓ Within PBCS
– Usage Innovations
• What’s Coming
• Q&A
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Users – New report feature – toggle PDF and html (Dec 18)
New option to switch
between the two display
formats seamlessly
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Users – Improved display options for users in the browser (Nov 18)
Folder View Flat View
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Users – Drill through wholly within Smartview
New sheet
pops up with
the transaction
details – its
fast
We’ve raised enhancement requests for
two things
1. A total
2. Data to come through in number
format not as text
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Users – Dashboards into Smartview – Phase 1
Each of the forms that
underpin the dashboard
open in Smartview as a
separate sheet
Forms
DashboardsThis is what the user sees in
the browser – each of the 4
artefacts shown are
associated with a form
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Users – Forms now supress zero rows or columns (as well as # missing)
Recently the option to
suppress rows with zeros to
forms (as well as # missing)
This is especially
relevant to
customers using
ASO technology
This is the new
option which can be
used in combination
with either suppress
missing columns or
rowsv
v
v
This is the new
option which can be
used in combination
with either suppress
missing columns or
rows
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Admins – Task list now support use of dashboard artefacts
New option to include
Dashboards in Tasks Lists
We continue to recommend use of Task lists for
things like the month end roll over steps
Less relevant for user tasks given how good the
Navigation flow functionality is
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Admins - New ASO Functions
Nov
18
@FilterDynamic(Dimension Name, Member
Name)
Removes all dynamic members from the list of members
@FilterShared(Dimension Name, Member
Name)
Removes all shared members from the list of members
@FilterSharedAndDynamic(Dimension Name,
Member Name)
Removes all dynamic and shared
members from the list of members
Jan 19 @List This function can be used in the Point of View of an Aggregate
Storage custom calculation or allocation.
New functions are added from time to time, recent additions are very relevant for those that
utilise ASO Plan Types
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Reminder – User preference changes (18 09 → more to come)
Old
New
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Reminder - Adoption of the New Browser Dimension Editor
Some bugs for Oracle to iron out here
Latest advise is during 2019 with at least 2 months notice to be provided
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Agenda
• Introduction
• What’s New
– Within PBCS
✓ Usage Innovations
• What’s Coming
• Q&A
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Admin – Defining what periods do and do not calculate
Jan Feb
Volume 10
Price 10
Revenue 100 100
Jan is an Actual
period. The $
100 shown is
sourced from the
GL and should
not be calculated
Feb is the 1st
planning period.
It hence should
be calculated as
shown
Script functions as follows
[[getStartMonth({bvar_Scenario_Select})]]
[[getEndMonth({bvar_Scenario_Select})]]
[[getStartYear({bvar_Scenario_Select})]]
[[getEndYear({bvar_Scenario_Select})]]
Use these dates to define all
aspects
1. Read access v write access
2. What calculates and what does
not
3. Copy Actual into Plan Scenario
range
4. Copy from one plan Scenario
to another
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User FY19 FY20 FY21
Jan $ 10
Month
ly
Annual
Annual
Feb $ 10
Mar $ 10
Apr $ 10
May $ 10
Jun $ 10
Jul $ 10
Aug $ 10
Sep $ 10
Oct $ 10
Nov $ 10
Dec $ 10 $ 120 $ 120
Use Valid
Intersections
to define
Forms
respect
automatically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3PQ76rncs
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EPBCS
Enterprise PBCS (EPBCS) | PBCS
* Additional licensing cost applies
PBCS
Platform Extensions
• Groovy
• Hybrid Essbase
• Strategic Planning
Pre built functionality
• Workforce
• Projects
• Capital
• Financials
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Admin – Triggering Data Maps from a Business Rule
SET DATAEXPORTOPTIONS {
DataExportLevel ALL;
DataExportDynamicCalc ON;
DataExportNonExistingBlocks OFF;
DataExportColFormat OFF;
DataExportColHeader "Measure";
DataExportDimHeader OFF;
DataExportRelationalFile OFF;
DataExportOverwriteFile ON;
DataExportDryRun OFF;
};
/* ==================================================================================
01. Trigger Process
================================================================================== */
VAR RunFlag;
FIX ("All_Assumptions", "Concept1", "COA_NA", "E_NA", "PEA_NA", "JV", "FY12", "Month", "BegBalance")
FIX ("Run_Load")
DATAEXPORT "File" "," "/u03/lcm/Trigger_BS_MAPS.txt" "NULL";
ENDFIX
"Run_Load_Flag" = 0;
LOOP (15000, RunFlag)
"Run_Load" (
RunFlag = "Run_Load_Flag";
IF ("Run_Load" == 1 )
"Run_Load" == 1;
ENDIF
)
ENDLOOP
ENDFIX
A data map allows us to
convert Smartlist valies into
Dimension which is very
helpful functionality
Oracle have not made
available the ability for
PBCS customers to
seamlessly run Data maps
unless you are a EPBCS in
which case you can do this
using Groovy scripting
We have
therefore come
up with an
innovation to
achieve the
desired result
User Runs Rule
Rule generates
text file
Rule instigates
EPM automate
process
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A fresh look at approvals (Workflow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atS1s8OYpAE
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Agenda
• Introduction
• What’s New
– Within PBCS
– Usage Innovations
✓What’s Coming
• Q&A
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PBCS - Roadmap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWK-VSWXEg
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DXC Red Rock Leadership Forum - In Summary
• Biggest Oracle Partner
event in the Southern
Hemisphere
• Free to attend
• 5 streams including EPM
• EPM stream lead Matt
Bradley
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Oracle’s ongoing investment into PBCS is vast
In Summary
Aim to send out the slides later today
For more information please reach out
Lots more to come
Ahmed’s blog – HyperionJedi.com
DXC Proprietary and Confidential
Thank You!