Familiarizing Yourself with Planning

Planning helps you create and update plans quickly:

• Easily navigate pages among common planning tasks from the Home page.

• Enter data in forms. See Working with Data in Forms.

• Follow a structured process for creating plans using tasks lists. See Working with Task Lists.

• Monitor your tasks with a visible, automated, repeatable system of record for running an application using Task Manager. See Using Task Manager.

• View and analyze key information graphically using dashboards. See Using Dashboards to Work with Data.

• Get a quick overview of top-level information using infolets. See Viewing Key Information with Infolets.

• Focus your analysis with ad hoc grids. See Using Ad Hoc for Data Entry and Analysis.

• Predict performance based on historical data with Predictive Planning. See Improving Forecasting Accuracy with Predictive Planning.

• Adjust and spread values. See Adjusting and Spreading Data.

• Use the built-in calculator. See Working with Supporting Detail.

• Get your plans reviewed and approved. See Getting Plans Approved.

• View reports that summarize data. See Working with Reports.

• Leverage your experience with Microsoft Excel by using Oracle Smart View for Office. See Working with Business Process Data in Excel and Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide.

• Run calculations. See Using Business Rules.

• Develop a plan privately in a sandbox before publishing it. See Building a Plan Privately.

• Work with multicurrencies. See Working with Currencies.

• Set preferences for how you want to work with Planning. See Setting Your Preferences.