PeopleSoft EPM Analytical Applications
EPM provides the applications necessary to analyze business situations, model business scenarios, and monitor performance.
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The following graphic illustrates how the Analytical Applications fit into the overall EPM architecture.
PeopleSoft EPM analytical applications consist of a series of logically integrated dashboards, reports, scorecards, and models, which enable a wide range of users to access, analyze and act on integrated information within the context of a specific business processes, such as sales pipeline, accounts payable, or risk adjusted profitability analysis. These applications are built on normalized data from the OWE (rather than dimensionalized data from the MDW), and data is processed using the powerful Application Engine (AE) PeopleTool.
The analytical applications provide functional models for forecasting, trend analysis, and statistical analysis of your data to help drive decision-making within a business process. You model and analyze data using EPM PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA) pages and application engines delivered with the analytical applications.
The EPM analytical applications enable you to:
Capture organization-wide financial and workforce information in a single data model.
Prepare and analyze plans in real time without having to move data between applications.
Create and revise forecasts based on data from previous planning scenarios.
View summary level information about your organization or drill back directly to transaction source system data.
Deliver information to all levels within the organization.
Continuously assess operational performance based on key performance indicators and historical trends.
Application Engine PeopleTool
The Application Engine is a PeopleTool that enables you to run and monitor SQL processing programs that process your data within the analytical applications. A program is defined in Application Designer and performs a specific business process. The program can consist of a set of SQL statements, PeopleCode, and program control actions that enable looping and conditional logic.
The Application Engine does not generate SQL or PeopleCode. It executes the SQL and PeopleCode included in an Application Engine action as part of a program. The Application Engine is designed for batch processing where data that must be processed without user intervention—for example, calculating salaries in payroll processing (although not printing the checks). Another example might be converting money from one currency to another.
PeopleSoft Delivered Analytical Applications
PeopleSoft delivers the following Applications:
PeopleSoft Activity-Based Management
PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals for Financial Services Industry
PeopleSoft Funds Transfer Pricing
PeopleSoft Global Consolidations
PeopleSoft Performance Management Portal Pack
PeopleSoft Planning and Budgeting
PeopleSoft Project Portfolio Management
PeopleSoft Risk Weighted Capital
PeopleSoft Scorecard
PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics Applications
PeopleSoft Workforce Planning
PeopleSoft Workforce Rewards
For more details on the application or applications you have licensed, please refer to the specific application documentation.