FreeForm

FreeForm is a subscription-based flexible and customizable reporting and planning solution deployed on Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM. It uses the proven, scalable, and best-in-class Oracle SaaS Cloud architecture.

The FreeForm business process helps companies plan their cloud strategy efficiently by avoiding reporting data fragmentation across cloud services or between cloud and on-premises solutions. It delivers instant value and greater productivity for reporting and planning use cases for all lines of business across the company. For more information, refer to Understanding FreeForm in Administering FreeForm

Users interact with FreeForm through a web browser or Microsoft Office interface to collaboratively report, analyze, and plan their business needs.

Proven Platform and Technology

The FreeForm functional architecture, which is based on the proven EPM Cloud Platform, provides a unified reporting and planning solution to solve simple to complex use cases across numerous industries. With FreeForm business process, enterprise-wide reporting, close and planning use cases, along with users and their security, can be managed within a centralized place.

Best-in-Class Functionality

With FreeForm business process you can easily create forms, reports, and on-the-fly what-if models with real-time collaborative dashboards. You can also perform ad hoc analysis and create powerful custom reports using annotations, commentary, and document attachments.

Scalable and Flexible

FreeForm leverages the powerful Oracle Essbase OLAP calculation engine and the comprehensive web and Microsoft Office-based Oracle Smart View for Office to enable fast rendering of complex grids with large volumes of data. Inbuilt time and data intelligence provides out-of-the-box spreading and fast on-demand aggregation capabilities. By creating and sharing on-the-fly models, you can quickly build and collaborate using Excel and web interfaces.

Enterprise Ready

FreeForm is a one-stop business process to seamlessly plug in a flexible and customizable modeling and reporting solution into larger transaction systems from Oracle and beyond. It supports small-scale to large-scale deployments, data backup and migration. It also provides Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data integration capabilities without compromising ease of use or self-service for smaller customers. It provides flat file and Excel-based import and export, and comprehensive mapping capabilities for more sophisticated data integration use cases. You can seamlessly load and extract information, and drill back to any source ERP system.

Essbase Portability

Existing FreeForm customers can leverage built-in migration capabilities to port their on-premises Essbase application to the FreeForm business process to have a SaaS based deployment of these Essbase cubes. This capability enables organizations to pursue a cloud first strategy for reporting and planning.

Unified Deployment

The FreeForm business process lets you report, analyze and plan within a unified construct. Your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud subscription includes everything that you need from a reporting and planning standpoint using web and Smart View interfaces. You don't need to license, install, upgrade, or patch software; you don't have to buy, install, or configure hardware. FreeForm enables you to leverage the deep product expertise of the worldwide Oracle Hyperion Partner network to develop and deploy cloud-based applications in just weeks.