About Smart View and Profitability and Cost Management

To maximize profitability, a business must be able to accurately measure, allocate, and manage costs and revenue.

Profitability and Cost Management 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. Profitability and Cost Management 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 Profitability and Cost Management:

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