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Data validation is the process of checking that data satisfies a set of defined rules before it is accepted, stored or reported. A validation rule states a condition the data must meet: a date must fall within an open period, an amount must be positive, a supplier...
Data storytelling is the practice of combining data, visuals and narrative so that an audience understands a finding and acts on it. It is the step between having an analysis and having an outcome, and it is the step most often skipped. A chart on its own is not a...
Data mapping is the practice of defining how each field in a source system corresponds to a field in a target system, including any transformation applied along the way. A mapping states that VENDOR_NAME in one system becomes supplier_name in another, that it is...
Data democratization is the practice of making data available to people across an organization who are not data specialists, so they can answer their own questions without routing every request through a technical team. It covers access, but it also covers the tools,...
An accounts payable aging report lists every unpaid supplier invoice and groups the outstanding amounts by how long they have been outstanding, usually in thirty-day bands. It answers two questions at once: how much the organization owes, and how overdue that money...
A trial balance is a listing of every account in the general ledger with its closing balance, arranged in two columns so that total debits can be compared against total credits. Under double-entry bookkeeping the two totals must agree. When they do, the ledger is...
Financial statement analysis is the practice of interpreting an organization's financial statements to reach a judgement about its performance, position and prospects. Where reporting produces the statements, analysis interrogates them: it asks whether the numbers are...
Data silos are collections of data held by one team, system or department and not readily accessible to the rest of the organization. The defining characteristic is reach rather than location: data sitting in a central warehouse that only two people can query is as...
Consolidated financial reporting is the process of combining the results of a parent company and the entities it controls into a single set of financial statements, presented as though the group were one economic entity. The test is control, not ownership percentage...
PeopleSoft financial analytics solutions are the reporting and analytics capabilities Oracle ships inside PeopleSoft for turning Financials data into decisions: Simplified Analytics, Fluid Analytics, Kibana visualizations, and the classic PS/nVision, Query Manager,...
Multitenant embedded reporting is analytics delivered inside a SaaS product or ISV application, where one shared application serves many customer organizations and each of them sees only its own data. The reports live in the product; the isolation between customers is...
Oracle E-Business Suite services are the functional business applications inside Oracle EBS, grouped into application families such as Financials, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Human Capital Management, Projects, and CRM. Each family holds a set...
Data validation is the process of checking that data satisfies a set of defined rules before it is accepted, stored or reported. A validation rule states a condition the data must meet: a date must fall within an open period, an amount must be positive, a supplier...
Data storytelling is the practice of combining data, visuals and narrative so that an audience understands a finding and acts on it. It is the step between having an analysis and having an outcome, and it is the step most often skipped. A chart on its own is not a...
Data mapping is the practice of defining how each field in a source system corresponds to a field in a target system, including any transformation applied along the way. A mapping states that VENDOR_NAME in one system becomes supplier_name in another, that it is...
Data democratization is the practice of making data available to people across an organization who are not data specialists, so they can answer their own questions without routing every request through a technical team. It covers access, but it also covers the tools,...
An accounts payable aging report lists every unpaid supplier invoice and groups the outstanding amounts by how long they have been outstanding, usually in thirty-day bands. It answers two questions at once: how much the organization owes, and how overdue that money...
A trial balance is a listing of every account in the general ledger with its closing balance, arranged in two columns so that total debits can be compared against total credits. Under double-entry bookkeeping the two totals must agree. When they do, the ledger is...
Financial statement analysis is the practice of interpreting an organization's financial statements to reach a judgement about its performance, position and prospects. Where reporting produces the statements, analysis interrogates them: it asks whether the numbers are...
Data silos are collections of data held by one team, system or department and not readily accessible to the rest of the organization. The defining characteristic is reach rather than location: data sitting in a central warehouse that only two people can query is as...
Consolidated financial reporting is the process of combining the results of a parent company and the entities it controls into a single set of financial statements, presented as though the group were one economic entity. The test is control, not ownership percentage...
PeopleSoft financial analytics solutions are the reporting and analytics capabilities Oracle ships inside PeopleSoft for turning Financials data into decisions: Simplified Analytics, Fluid Analytics, Kibana visualizations, and the classic PS/nVision, Query Manager,...
Multitenant embedded reporting is analytics delivered inside a SaaS product or ISV application, where one shared application serves many customer organizations and each of them sees only its own data. The reports live in the product; the isolation between customers is...
Oracle E-Business Suite services are the functional business applications inside Oracle EBS, grouped into application families such as Financials, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Human Capital Management, Projects, and CRM. Each family holds a set...
