Integrating with Other Services

Financial Consolidation and Close integrates with Narrative Reporting, EPM Automate, Data Integration, Oracle Smart View for Office, Task Manager, and Supplemental Data Manager. These integrations make your consolidation and businesss processes more effective and efficient.

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Integrating with Other Services

Narrative Reporting

Use Narrative Reporting to build highly-formatted and book-quality production and financial management reports. You can edit a report and then run it from the Reports list on the Home screen, and select from several output options.

EPM Automate

EPM Automate is a command-line utility that Service Administrators can use to schedule jobs such as importing and exporting data and metadata from an application, or executing business rules. You access EPM Automate from the Navigator menu, and then execute commands from a command prompt.

Data Integration

You use Data Integration to integrate data from an enterprise resource planning source system to an enterprise performance management target system. You access Data Integration through the Navigator menu. From the Setup tab, you create import formats, locations, and mappings, and establish your source and target systems. From the Workflow tab, you execute data integrations.

Smart View

Use Smart View to integrate with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. You install it from the Download menu. If you want to edit your dimensions in Smart View, you can also download the add-on for Administrators. After you install Smart View, you can access your data directly in an Office application. For example, you can open data forms directly in Excel.