About Smart View and Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud

To maximize profitability, a business must be able to accurately measure, allocate, and manage costs and revenue. Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud is an analytic software tool that manages the cost and revenue allocations that are necessary to compute profitability for a business segment, such as a product, customer, region, or branch. Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud enables you to use cost decomposition, consumption-based costing and scenario-playing to measure profitability for effective planning and decision support.

Use the topics in this chapter to install and connect to Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud:

Then you are ready to begin working with data in Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud. Information on using Oracle Smart View for Office with Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud is contained throughout this guide: