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OBIEE vs OAS vs OAC vs FDI: Oracle’s Analytics Platforms
Oracle publishes analytics under four names that read like competing products on one shortlist. Anyone comparing OBIEE vs OAC is usually trying to settle a narrower question: does one replace the other, is a third name simply a rebrand, and where does the fourth fit...
Augmented Analytics Examples for Oracle ERP Teams
Augmented analytics is the use of machine learning and natural language techniques inside a reporting tool to do work an analyst would otherwise do by hand, and the augmented analytics platform page covers the concept in full. What a definition does not settle is what...
What Are Accounts Receivable Reports?
Accounts receivable reports are the reports produced from the receivables subledger showing who owes the business money, how much, how long each balance has been outstanding, and what is being done to collect it. Together they answer one question in several shapes:...
What Is an Account Reconciliation Spreadsheet?
An account reconciliation spreadsheet is the working document that proves a general ledger account balance against an independent source and explains every difference between the two. The ledger says the bank account holds a given figure; the bank statement either...
Oracle HCM Cloud Reports and Analytics: How to Get Data Out
Teams working in Oracle HCM Cloud using reports and analytics have four delivered tools available, and most of the frustration in HCM reporting comes from reaching for the wrong one. OTBI, BI Publisher, HCM Extracts and Fusion Analytics Warehouse each solve a...
Oracle Fusion User Reports: How to List Users, Roles and Access
An Oracle Fusion user report lists user accounts alongside the roles they hold and the access those roles grant. It is the report an internal auditor asks for, the one a security review starts from, and the one most Fusion administrators end up assembling by hand more...
Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Studio: What It Does
Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Studio is a Windows desktop application used to design formatted financial statements against Oracle Fusion Cloud general ledger balances. It is usually shortened to FR Studio, and it is the tool most Fusion finance teams reach for...
What is Oracle Financials Cloud?
Oracle Financials Cloud is the financial management pillar of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, covering the general ledger, payables, receivables, cash management, fixed assets and related accounting functions as a software-as-a-service application. The naming causes genuine...
12 PeopleSoft Dashboard Examples for Finance, HR and Supply Chain
Most PeopleSoft dashboard examples published online show a screenshot and stop there, which tells you what one looks like and nothing about what it should carry. This page lists twelve dashboards organizations actually run in PeopleSoft, with the metrics on each and...
What is procurement reporting?
Procurement reporting is the reporting discipline covering the buying cycle: what an organization purchases, from which suppliers, under what terms, and how well the process from requisition to invoice actually runs. It spans spend, supplier performance and cycle...
What is zero-based budgeting?
Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting method in which every line starts at zero each cycle and has to be justified from scratch, rather than being derived from last year's figure. Nothing is inherited. A department that spent 4 million last year does not begin the...
What Is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's public cloud platform: the compute, storage, networking and database services that Oracle rents out, and the foundation its own applications run on. The acronym expands to exactly what it describes. It is infrastructure,...
OBIEE vs OAS vs OAC vs FDI: Oracle’s Analytics Platforms
Oracle publishes analytics under four names that read like competing products on one shortlist. Anyone comparing OBIEE vs OAC is usually trying to settle a narrower question: does one replace the other, is a third name simply a rebrand, and where does the fourth fit...
Augmented Analytics Examples for Oracle ERP Teams
Augmented analytics is the use of machine learning and natural language techniques inside a reporting tool to do work an analyst would otherwise do by hand, and the augmented analytics platform page covers the concept in full. What a definition does not settle is what...
What Are Accounts Receivable Reports?
Accounts receivable reports are the reports produced from the receivables subledger showing who owes the business money, how much, how long each balance has been outstanding, and what is being done to collect it. Together they answer one question in several shapes:...
What Is an Account Reconciliation Spreadsheet?
An account reconciliation spreadsheet is the working document that proves a general ledger account balance against an independent source and explains every difference between the two. The ledger says the bank account holds a given figure; the bank statement either...
Oracle HCM Cloud Reports and Analytics: How to Get Data Out
Teams working in Oracle HCM Cloud using reports and analytics have four delivered tools available, and most of the frustration in HCM reporting comes from reaching for the wrong one. OTBI, BI Publisher, HCM Extracts and Fusion Analytics Warehouse each solve a...
Oracle Fusion User Reports: How to List Users, Roles and Access
An Oracle Fusion user report lists user accounts alongside the roles they hold and the access those roles grant. It is the report an internal auditor asks for, the one a security review starts from, and the one most Fusion administrators end up assembling by hand more...
Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Studio: What It Does
Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Studio is a Windows desktop application used to design formatted financial statements against Oracle Fusion Cloud general ledger balances. It is usually shortened to FR Studio, and it is the tool most Fusion finance teams reach for...
What is Oracle Financials Cloud?
Oracle Financials Cloud is the financial management pillar of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, covering the general ledger, payables, receivables, cash management, fixed assets and related accounting functions as a software-as-a-service application. The naming causes genuine...
12 PeopleSoft Dashboard Examples for Finance, HR and Supply Chain
Most PeopleSoft dashboard examples published online show a screenshot and stop there, which tells you what one looks like and nothing about what it should carry. This page lists twelve dashboards organizations actually run in PeopleSoft, with the metrics on each and...
What is procurement reporting?
Procurement reporting is the reporting discipline covering the buying cycle: what an organization purchases, from which suppliers, under what terms, and how well the process from requisition to invoice actually runs. It spans spend, supplier performance and cycle...
What is zero-based budgeting?
Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting method in which every line starts at zero each cycle and has to be justified from scratch, rather than being derived from last year's figure. Nothing is inherited. A department that spent 4 million last year does not begin the...