This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

The month-end close is a critical process for every finance team, yet it's often plagued by manual data entry, tedious reconciliations, and endless spreadsheet gymnastics. This reliance on outdated methods not only introduces risk and errors but also consumes valuable time that your team could be spending on strategic analysis. This session will showcase how finance professionals can leverage modern analytics in multiple ways to improve the month end close process providing key financial data to the right finance team members at the right time enabling them to create a streamlined, reliable, and faster close process with Power BI and Excel utilized in a governed way. In this session, you will learn how to: - Automate the consolidation of financial data from multiple ERPs or multiple instances of your ERP if required. - Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and eliminate the associated risk of errors. - Streamline the preparation of financial statements and management reports with a single source of truth. - Help your finance team raise the bar enabling them to focus on high-impact analysis and strategic initiatives.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Oracle’s July 2025 release for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS) introduces next-generation Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) capabilities that bring AI-driven intelligence directly into financial processes. This webinar will showcase how IPM transforms forecasting, anomaly detection, and decision-making for finance teams. What You’ll Learn: AI-Enhanced Decision Making – Leverage multidimensional financial data for faster, smarter insights. Automated Trend & Anomaly Detection – Spot outliers, hidden patterns, and missing or volatile data with ease. Forecast Accuracy & Bias Insights – Identify hidden forecast biases, calculate risk percentages, and strengthen predictability. Time-Saving Automation – Reduce manual effort by letting IPM surface correlations and insights from historical data. Confidence in Numbers – Ensure finance and consolidation teams work with trusted insights for critical decisions. Live Demonstration Highlights: Real-time walkthrough of IPM Insights in FCCS. How to configure and run IPM analyses. Reviewing Forecast Bias and Anomaly Detection dashboards in action. Why Attend? / Note for Reviewer This session aligns with Oracle’s vision of embedding AI and automation into EPM processes, giving you practical knowledge on how IPM can elevate accuracy, efficiency, and confidence in financial consolidation and planning. You’ll walk away with not just awareness of the features—but a clear view of how they deliver real-world business value.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Oracle’s AI capabilities for finance provides a collection of AI–and ML–based tools and capabilities to help improve operational efficiency, automate standard transactions, better predict business outcomes, and optimize cash flow. Auto-predictive planning, Predictive cash forecasting, AutoML for custom models are some of the out of features which helps to take "Data-Driven Predictions" for effective decisions. AI helps to perform "Touchless Operations" like Transaction matching (automate high-volume, labor-intensive, and complex reconciliations) and Generated content in narrative reporting (Generate narrative and insights in reports based on data) It also offers "Digital assistance" to Interact with your EPM data. This session is going to talk about all AI driven features in EPM which helps users to take effective decisions. For review - This session must attend session for all EPM Practitioners and customers to know more about the Oracle’ AI offering in EPM. This session is in align with Oracle long term strategy in which AI should be driving factor to take effective decisions by Customer. Will spread awareness about AI features available in EPM tools.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Is implementing Oracle Cloud Grants on your roadmap or are you currently implementing? With any implementation, investing in data quality/clean up, change management, and integration planning can help reduce roadblocks for a successful go-live. However, the requirements and the business process for managing grants are especially complex. Therefore, we’ve put together a list of tips and tricks to help lay the foundation for an effective implementation, regardless of the system you are transitioning from.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Imagine your Oracle Cloud environment as a fearsome dragon, spewing forth a torrent of documents – invoices, statements, and more – chaotically and unpredictably. Manual data entry, missed deadlines, and unreliable deliveries threaten to overwhelm your team. This session shares how Equinix, a flagship Oracle Cloud implementation, "tamed their dragon" through enhancements to their document delivery workflows. Discover how they streamlined attachment and extraction, automated email (and fax) delivery, and gained valuable insights through advanced reporting. Learn how to conquer document delivery challenges in Oracle Cloud and unleash the full potential of your business. What To Expect: 1: Understand the "dragons" of document delivery in the Oracle Cloud environment. 2: Learn to "train" your systems with automated workflows and streamlined processes. 3: Gain the power to "control the dragon" with advanced reporting and analytics.