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5 ways CFOs can drive connected enterprise planning

As a modern CFO, you’re expected to help sales, operations, HR, and line-of-business teams drive their planning and strategic decisions. Discover the five cornerstone strategies for achieving a nimble, resilient enterprise.

Power your enterprise planning with AI

In the dynamic world of finance, staying ahead means more than just number crunching. It’s about strategic decision-making, identifying opportunities, and crafting the future. The challenge? The overwhelming wave of data that finance teams face daily. Enter the era of AI-driven connected enterprise planning with Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

  • Data-driven predictions

    Enhance forecast accuracy with AI predictions that validate assumptions and helps reduce decision-making risks.

  • AI-driven insight

    Discover hidden patterns and receive automated alerts to anomalies, enabling swift action.

  • Augmented intelligence

    Consume AI knowledge within the context of your planning process that complements your financial expertise and intuition.

Elevate your strategy with connected enterprise planning

Prepare for anything with scenario modeling

Apply sophisticated financial intelligence

Leverage financial intelligence and other powerful, built-in features to rapidly model multiple scenarios to quickly deal with change.

Support your decisions with Monte Carlo simulations

Use Monte Carlo simulations to determine the likelihood of various scenarios, giving you greater confidence in your decisions.

Align strategy with plans

Understand the impact of strategic decisions across your bottom line, balance sheet, cash flow, and shareholder value before pushing them to your operational plan.

Optimize capital structure

Model different funding options and understand the impact your strategies will have on your credit rating and capital structure.

Plan across all financial statements

Optimize your revenue plan

Accurately plan revenue, sales, and gross margin by adding dimensions for specific drivers related to your business.

Plan for all expenses

Plan for all your expenses with prebuilt best-practice expense drivers. Include expenses from workforce and capital planning with prebuilt integration.

Analyze the balance sheet

See the full picture by integrating balance sheets fully with income statements and cash flow. Configure for industry-specific requirements.

Model your cash flow

Model cash from operations with fully integrated cash flow planning for short-, medium-, and long-term time horizons.

Optimize your working capital

Automate cash management

Automate the collection of all relevant data streams, such as cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, tax, and external bank data. Gain a comprehensive, reliable view into your cash position from one place.

Optimize cash flow

Leverage predictive algorithms to automatically generate a daily or weekly cash forecast to improve speed and accuracy. Find problems and opportunities earlier with increased automation and more frequent cash forecast updates.

Take action faster

React quickly with predictive cash forecasting. Align stakeholders from across the company—using cash projections and scenario planning to determine your next steps— and take strategic operational and corrective actions faster.

Retain top talent with workforce planning

Plan for compensation expenses

Use out-of-the-box, driver-based planning capabilities to map out compensation-related expenses by employee, job code, or whatever level of detail that makes sense for your business.

Align finance and HR

Build the workforce you need to execute on your strategic goals. Collaborate more with HR via prebuilt integration with Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) and integration with other third-party cloud HCM solutions.

Simplify employee expenses with wizard-based planning

Use intuitive planning wizards to maintain complex employee expense calculations, including benefits and tax expenses.

Achieve revenue goals with sales planning

Optimize quota attainment

Use predictive models to set targets—with flexible adjustments for risks—and optimize coverage across territories, products, accounts, and channels.

Make more predictable sales forecasts

Deploy AI anomaly detection and predictive insights to help remove human bias from forecasts by highlighting material variances, low-ball predictions, and possible opportunities so they can be dealt with rapidly.

Leverage key accounts more effectively

Drive smarter key account planning with predictive forecasting to build accurate forecasts, optimize promotions, run what-if scenarios, and refine plans to close gaps to targets.

Align sales and finance

Bring sales and finance together via a connected planning platform to help drive reliable, continuous forecasts using AI anomaly detection.

Plan your capital asset expenses

Track the full lifecycle of capital investment

Create cash flow and funding plans for investments and leased assets. Also plan for new capital assets and take advantage of out-of-the-box calculations for depreciation and amortization during the lifespan of the asset.

Plan asset-related expenses

Easily model asset-related expenses such as repairs and insurance. Automate processes such as retirements, transfers, and improvements.

Plan for intangible assets

Plan for new and existing intangible assets, including amortization and cash flow planning and impairments.

Review your capital expenses

Get an overall analysis of capital expense spending, including asset summary reports and actual-versus-plan variances. See the impact on cash flow, balance sheet, and income statement by asset class and business unit.

Attain an in-depth understanding of your project financials

Model all project types

Use out-of-the-box drivers to plan costs for short- and long-term projects. These include internal projects such as IT, R&D, marketing campaigns, and contract-based initiatives. as well as more complex projects for industries such as construction, engineering, and professional services.

Plan detailed project costs and revenues

Understand the financial impact of your projects in greater detail. Use drivers that help you plan for individual employee and asset-related costs, as well as expected revenues.

Track project performance

Use prebuilt metrics to track project revenue, expenses, and cash flow. Leverage performance indicators such as net present value, payback, and return on investment.

Plan to achieve your sustainability goals

Collect and track ESG data

Import and centralize ESG data from source systems within a purpose-built model aligned to global standards, with full traceability and validation to support data integrity and auditability.

Operationalize sustainability plans

Turn sustainability goals into short- and long-term plans. Implement initiatives across your operations, aligning decision-making across integrated sustainability, finance, and operational planning.

Comply with multiple frameworks

Comply with evolving rules and regulations using flexible reporting methods that adapt across frameworks including CSRD, TCFD, IFRS, and CDP.

Get instant AI-powered alerts

Leverage native AI to help monitor ESG data, with built-in pattern recognition that can alert you to anomalies or material variances so you can take corrective action quickly.

Tailor your planning and reporting applications

Leverage tailored tools made for business users

Make better decisions by creating a wide range of tailored financial and operational models to improve visibility and insight into all aspects of your business.

Draw insights from multiple data sources

Connect every part of your business operations to analyze data sources from multiple ERP, sales, HR, and supply chain systems and get AI-driven alerts to anomalies and insights.

Employ a range of data analysis capabilities

Generate rapid and rigorous insights with Freeform multidimensional modeling engine. Utilize data analysis capabilities including what-if analyses, slice-and-dice scenarios, and prebuilt and custom calculations of KPIs and other metrics.

Establish scalable and centralized management

Support and manage thousands of simultaneous users all from one place, enabling teams to access modeling, reporting, and analytics tools to rapidly generate business insights.

Benefits of connected enterprise planning

  1. AI that automates finance work—and elevates decision-making

    AI isn’t an add-on; it’s embedded where work happens. Built-in AI and AI agents reduce manual effort from day one, automating routine activities, surfacing anomalies, predicting likely outcomes, generating explanations, and recommending next steps so teams can move faster with greater confidence.

  2. One unified EPM suite, not disconnected tools

    Run planning, financial close, account reconciliation, tax, and reporting processes together in one connected suite, reducing handoffs and complexity while aligning finance, operations, and the business as whole around a shared view of enterprise performance.

  3. Connected planning to help you move from hindsight to foresight

    Plan, forecast, and model with AI-powered predictions that surface drivers, trends, and correlations and translate insights into action. Planning agents curate real-time transactional data from ERP and operational systems in a finance context, facilitating agile analysis, informed decisions, and connected actions.

  4. Faster time to value with AI-powered best practices

    Prebuilt EPM processes and agentic flows help teams adopt best practices with little customization. Finance teams can make full use of embedded AI and AI agents with no disruption for more efficient operations and agile decision-making.

What Analysts are saying about connected enterprise planning

  • Read why Gartner named Oracle Enterprise Performance Management a leader for financial planning software.

  • Read why IDC named Oracle Enterprise Performance Management a leader for enterprise planning, budgeting, and forecasting applications

  • Read why Gartner named Oracle Enterprise Performance Management a leader for financial close and consolidation solutions**

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*Gartner®, Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, December 1, 2025. Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, and Mike Lashinsky.

**Gartner®, Magic Quadrant for Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions, March 9, 2026. Jeffrin Francis, Renata Viana.

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