Oracle Hyperion Planning is a budgeting and planning solution that drives collaborative and event-based operational planning processes throughout your organization for a wide range of financial and operational needs. Users can enter, analyze, and report on data, manage the planning process, and personalize data entry forms.

Planning is a comprehensive approach for the complete and closed-loop planning process that drives continuous business improvement. All decision makers and front-line managers can communicate which course of action to take and get budget holders to collaborate so that the planning process is optimized and efficient. When a material event occurs that causes a change in direction, planners can adapt rapidly, ensuring that plans are relevant and useful.

Planning benefits:

• Facilitates collaboration, communication, and control across multidivisional global enterprises

• Provides a framework for perpetual planning, with attention to managing volatility and frequent planning cycles

• Provides ease of use and deployment through the web or Oracle Smart View for Office

• Decreases the total cost of ownership through a shorter roll out and implementation phase, and easier applications maintenance

• Enhances decision-making with reporting, analysis, and planning

• Promotes modeling by including complex business rules and allocations

• Integrates with Smart View so you can design worksheets in Microsoft Excel to enter, format, analyze, and report on data in a Planning application. Using ad hoc grids—focused data slices—in Smart View, you can also perform ad hoc analysis.

• Integrates with other systems to load data