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Cloud Planning and Financial Close
Streamline Your Financial Processes
John Gualdoni
Solution Consultant
Oracle
September, 2017
Nate Gruys
Business Development Manager
Edgewater Ranzal

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3. Agenda
Overview – Oracle & Edgewater Ranzal
Overview – Enterprise Performance Management
Planning in the Cloud
Financial Close in the Cloud
Implementation
Q & A
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• Lower TCO
• No Cost upgrades
• No infrastructure costs
• No installation costs
• Fast deployment
• Price competitive
• Scalable, start small - deploy worldwide
• 99.5% availability
• Embassy-grade security
Why Cloud?

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Oracle EPM Cloud

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Oracle’s EPM Cloud Leadership
Built on over
15 years of
Product
Innovation
Clients across
industries
Financial Services, Higher Ed,
Consumer Goods, Retail, Services,
High Tech, Public Sector
+1990
Customers
+100
Go-lives each
quarter
Available and
Supported Globally
24 X 7 X 365
First Product
Launched:
February 2014
(7 products to date)

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Edgewater Ranzal - Solutions that Support the Analytics Lifecycle
Big Data
Cloud
Enterprise
Performance
Management
Implementation
Services
Infrastructure
& Support
AdvisoryTraining &
Education
Business
Intelligence
Business Intelligence
• Business Intelligence for Finance
• BICS/CRM Integration
• BICS/EPM Integration
Enterprise Performance Management
• Financial Close and Consolidation
• Data Governance and Integration
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• Profitability and Cost Management
Advisory
• EPM, BI, & BD Roadmaps
• Program & Project Management
• Process Analysis
Training & Education
• Core Product
• Custom
Infrastructure & Support
• Infrastructure Services
• Support Services
• Hosting Services
Implementation Services
• Multi-Product Business Analytics
• Single Product
Big Data
• Big Data Integration
• Big Data Application
Cloud
• Enterprise Planning & Budgeting (EPBCS)
• Planning & Budgeting (PBCS)
• Profitability & Cost Management (PCMCS)
• Financial Close & Consolidations (FCCS)
• Enterprise Performance Reporting (EPRCS)
• Account Reconciliation (ARCS)
• Business Intelligence (BICS)

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Edgewater Ranzal - Overview
• Oracle Platinum Partner, Oracle Partner Advisory Council, 2 ACEs
• More than 200 consultants with an exclusive multiproduct focus across the entire Oracle Business
Analytics Suite
• Trusted advisory relationship with Oracle Product Development, Oracle Customer Advisory Board,
and Special Interest Group members
• Extensive experience in the planning, design, and implementation of integrated Oracle EPM, BI and
BD solutions and best practices
• Proven Oracle-specific methodologies, templates and supporting tools, as well as industry thought-
leaders and deep technical practitioners

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Agenda
Overview – Oracle & Ranzal
Overview – Enterprise Performance Management
Planning in the Cloud
Financial Close in the Cloud
Implementation
Q & A
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Why Oracle for EPM?
• 14 Years Running as Leader in
Gartner CPM Magic Quadrant
• 33 Years of Company Experience
• 400+ FTEs in R&D
• 1000s of Partners Globally
• 8000+ Customers

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Transform Once. And Do it Right.
Traditional
Path w/ Tier n
vendors
Spreadsheets | Lower tier on-premises |
QuickBooks | Home grown | Nothing |
Niche Products
Current System(s)
“Leapfrog” Path
to the Cloud
1 time

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Planning Today is Done in Excel
It is a Good Tool, but…
• Disconnected
• Not a Database
• Data Security Risks
• Error-prone
• Doesn’t scale
• No controls / audit trails
• Limited, What-if scenarios
• No business rules

13. Data Forms Excel Financial ReportingDashboards MS Office
Excel
Hyperion Planning & Budgeting Cloud - Single Version of the Truth
Planning &
Budgeting Cloud

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• 38% less time in planning process
• 32% less time creating management reports
• 12% increase in forecasting accuracy
Plan, forecast, and report faster, in more detail,
with more accuracy and insight
Oracle EPM Delivers
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Source: Oracle Customer Value Index

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Enterprise Planning with the Simplicity of the
Cloud
Planning modules with best practice content
for rapid deployment & auto-upgrade
Address Financial & Operational Planning
Best Practice Planning
Out-of-the-Box
Enterprise Planning Cloud
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PROJECTS FINANCIALSCAPEX WORKFORCE

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The Financials Planning Framework
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• Configurable ‘framework’ for revenue/gross margin planning
• ‘Flex Dimensions’ such as Product, Market, Customer, etc
• Configurable framework for drivers –based & trends-based planning
• Pre-built, best practice expense drivers
• Optional pre-built integration with Workforce & Capital processes
• Fully integrated with Income Statement & Cash Flow
• Configurable for industry -specific requirements
• Fully integrated Cash Flow - focusing on Cash from Operations
• Both ‘direct’ & ‘indirect’ cash flow methods supported
Revenue
Expense
Balance Sheet
Cash Flow
Oracle Confidential – Internal
Strategic Modeling
• Long Range, Top-down Planning, What-if & Scenario Analysis
• Connect Bottom-up Planning with Top-Down Planning

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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
Edgewater Ranzal Implementation Success Story
Centralized
System
75%
Reduction in Time
= Efficiency Gains
Linkronization
Reduced from
13 to 4
• Opus Group is leveraging Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud (PBCS) to
efficiently model deployment of capital amongst a portfolio of projects in
order to maximize long-term returns to stakeholders
• Replaced cumbersome and inefficient Excel-based approach to Project Pro
Forma Projections, Capital Planning, Project Equity Analysis, as well as
Revenue and Margin Planning.
• Modeling and Rolling Forecast included in the application
• Multiple Scenarios and Versions to allow for various Planning horizons and
economic conditions to be modeled

18. Collaboration and Transparency
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• Robust workflow & workflow dashboard
• Outlook integration
• Tasklists
• Notifications
• Support for report annotations,
Comments, and descriptive input
• Opportunity to make
improvements to the process
Know what you need to know, when you need to know it!

19. Integration
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• Microsoft office integration
• Users work in Excel or Web
• Data refresh functionality in Word,
Powerpoint
• Essbase ad-hoc
• Data Source Agnostic (FDMEE)
• Take data from any source
• ETL: Extract Transform and
Load
• Automate where appropriate
No more “That’s not my number!”

20. Control
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• Quick Start Toolkit
• Demonstrations
• Tutorials
• Sample application
• Users can work in Excel or web
• Simplifies Transition
• Phased implementation
Puts you in charge of your business and your data!
• Minimal IT involvement
• Owned and Managed by LOB
• Easy to build, easy to change

21. Agenda
Overview – Oracle & Ranzal
Overview – Enterprise Performance Management
Planning in the Cloud
Financial Close in the Cloud
Implementation
Q & A
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22. Focused on Best Practices from 30+ years
experience
Extended close from sub-ledger to final
reporting
Integration with ERP, EPM, & 3rd party sources
Consolidate and Report with Confidence
Financial Consolidation and Close
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Best Practice
Consolidations
Supplemental
data
Workflow Dashboard Data
Management

23. Ensures the use of best practices for an
accurate and efficient financial consolidation
and close
Makes it easy for finance departments to meet
global financial regulation requirements like
IFRS and GAAP
Significantly reduces timescale, cost and risk in
the financial consolidation and close process
Best Practice Consolidation
Out-of-the-Box
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24. Reduce the time it takes to complete the financial close
Ensure visibility and predictability in financial
consolidation and close
Trust and reliability that the numbers are complete and
accurate
No need to replace/alter existing transactional systems
Increase collaboration
Comprehensively Address the
Extended Close Process
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25. Secure anywhere anytime access to latest financial
information that remove the dependency on finance for
generating reports and analysis
Improve the security, consistency and quality of financial
reporting
Contain / reduce audit costs
Confidence in compliance with regulations
Integrated, Secure and
Auditable
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26. • Consolidation
– Predefined dimensions with built-in Financial
Intelligence
– Flexible application configuration with pre-built
forms & reports
– Standard consolidations & eliminations
– Currency translations, standard and custom,
and FX adjustment calculations
– Built-in KPI ratio analysis
– Custom calculations using member formula
– Automated Cash Flow
– Data source detail tracking with drill through
capability
– Multi-GAAP support
– Approvals
– Journal entry
– Intercompany matching
– Data audit
– Data Management
• Close Calendar (can be used standalone)
– Task Management
– Integrated with EPM/ERP
• Supplemental Schedules (can be used standalone)
– Data Collections
• FCCS Dashboards
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FCCS Functionality

27. Configurable, scalable platform that evolves with you
Streamline the Planning and Close Processes
Robust Reporting
& Analysis
• Highly formatted, pixel-perfect financial reports
• Robust ad-hoc analysis capabilities
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Office
Easy to Use
• Task Lists to guide users through the process
• Integrated, centralized commentary
• Visual indicators and data validations to guide the users
Rapid Time to Value
Pre-built functionality for:
• Driver-based planning and what-if modeling
• Business processes
• Data validation and traceability

28. Agenda
Overview – Oracle & Ranzal
Overview – Enterprise Performance Management
Planning in the Cloud
Financial Close in the Cloud
Implementation
Q & A
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2
3
4
5
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Considerations for the Cloud
• For any net new applications, you should be thinking “why not Cloud” first
– most organizations are going this direction
• For existing applications, there are many considerations on the best timing
to go to Cloud. This is unique by situation and organization.
• It is critical to start looking at this now and planning for a 2 – 3 year
roadmap. Especially if you are running multiple applications.
• You should always be looking at ROI perspective. Remember what you
learned in Economics about “sunk cost”.
• Cloud implementations / migrations can go quickly with focused sprints,
phases and Agile project methodologies
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30. Accelerate Your Ride to the Cloud
We’ll help you drive innovation across all Oracle EPM & BI Cloud solutions with
Ranzal’s Lightning Cloud Accelerators!
Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service
Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service
Financial Close and Consolidations Cloud Service
Account Reconciliation Cloud Service
Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service
Business Intelligence Cloud Service

31. Contact
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John Gualdoni – Oracle
John.Gualdoni@oracle.com
Nate Gruys – Edgewater Ranzal
NGruys@ranzal.com