In our first Meet the Customer episode, EPMIcast welcomes Jacinta Moore, CFO at The Outform Group! Jacinta shares her finance background and discusses her journey at Outform, highlighting the tremendous impact of Oracle Cloud EPM. EPMI successfully implemented Oracle Cloud EPM Financial & Workforce Planning, which has been instrumental in centralizing Outform's global financial data across various ERP systems. Stream more EPMIcast: https://linktr.ee/epmi More customer success stories: https://epmi.com/customer-stories/

Oracle’s planning tool was one of the first cloud-ready EPM products, originally released as Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) in 2014. During this episode, you will hear from EPMI’s Director of Planning and VP of Technology dive into each module of Oracle Cloud EPM Planning. The modules covered include Financials, Scenario Modeling, Workforce, Capital, and Projects. The cast discusses customer use cases in High Tech, Life Sciences, and Retail industries, the functionality of each module, and artificial intelligence.  Exploring the Modules of Oracle Cloud EPM Planning: https://epmi.com/blog/exploring-the-modules-of-oracle-cloud-epm-planning/

In this episode, we discuss Task Manager, a key project management EPM tool included in Oracle Cloud EPM's license. Task Manager helps organize, execute, monitor, and report tasks, providing visibility and automation for daily and repeatable business processes. Administrators can manage different configuration settings, create task templates, schedules, and execute tasks based on priority. Overall, Task Manager helps increase efficiency, reduces workload, and provides critical insights on task completion and compliance.   The Ultimate Guide to Oracle Cloud EPM Task Manager: https://epmi.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-oracle-cloud-epm-task-manager/

Paul Han has 20+ years of experience with Oracle products and functioning as a liaison between Accounting, Finance, and IT. His breadth of experience with corporate financial systems ranges from successfully managing new implementations and major upgrades to efficient day-to-day administration and support post-go-live. He leverages that experience to help EPMI deliver successful projects to our clients.

EPMIcast welcomes Oracle’s GVP of Product Management, Hari Sankar! The episode focuses on Oracle’s EPM and ERP strategy. Additionally, Hari shares insights on implementation methodologies, key EPM functionality, and the future of finance. The conversation covers Hari Sankar’s career, debates lift and shift implementations, and evaluates the competition. This episode provides real-world use cases of how customers are leveraging Oracle Machine Learning across Oracle Cloud Planning, Financial Close, and Account Reconciliation.

In this episode, Oracle's Matt Bradley sits down with EPMI's Minie and Nihar Parikh at CloudWorld. Their interesting discussion weaves in and out of Oracle's history and provides EPM strategies and roadmaps for the Oracle Cloud EPM platform. The episode starts with the genesis of EPM and Hyperion with Oracle's strategy through decades of innovation. Minie and Nihar lead the discussion to use cases and user adoption. Lastly, Matt shares what is coming to the platform. Subscribe to EPMIcast for more episodes from our upcoming live from Oracle CloudWorld series.

This episode is the first of three in-person episodes recorded during Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas! Our discussion with Oracle’s GVP of Financial & SCM Systems, Chris Muli focuses on the breadth and depth of Oracle’s platform across EPM, ERP, and Supply Chain. Nihar and Chris explore topics around the EPM market, economy, and upcoming features in Cash Flow Planning, IPM, and Supply Chain integrations. Subscribe to EPMIcast for more episodes from our upcoming live from Oracle CloudWorld series. 

We welcome Oracle’s Nick Boronski back to the show to discuss the competition in the Financial Close and Account Reconciliation marketplace. The discussion uncovers key functionality differentiators, pricing models, compliance, data extraction, and customer cases. Make sure to follow the link below for our new “Oracle Cloud EPM or Blackline” ebook. Please follow and rate EPMIcast on your streaming platforms. eBook: https://epmi.com/blog/oracle-cloud-epm-or-blackline-financial-close-account-reconciliation-ebook/

Michelle is a Certified Public Accountant with 20+ years of experience with Oracle software, originating with Hyperion version 4. Her strong accounting and finance in addition to her ability to understand technology enable her in tackling challenging business requirements, analyzing alternatives, and providing innovative solutions. Michelle has worked as both a Hyperion on-premise consultant and Oracle Cloud EPM Consultant in additional to various finance and accounting leadership positions throughout her career. In her free time, she enjoys balancing family activities, gardening, and kayak fishing.

EPMIcast invites James Rodgers, Master Principal Solutions Engineer at Oracle to discuss Oracle Cloud EPM user adoption strategies after an implementation go-live. Minie Parikh and James discuss Oracle’s built-in learning tools, EPMI’s knowledge transfer strategies, successful education methods, and more! For those streaming on YouTube, James closes the episode with an exclusive demo on Oracle’s Guided Learning, Help Center, and Academy!