2 Getting Started

This chapter covers the Oracle Cloud, followed by Profitability Management Cloud Service and the instructions to get started with the cloud service, and instructions to use the Admin Console.

Topics:

• Getting Started with Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud is the industry's broadest and most integrated cloud provider, with deployment options ranging from the public cloud to your data center. Oracle Cloud offers best-in-class services across Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Profitability Analytics Cloud Service: The Financial Services Profitability Analytics Cloud Service enables Banks and other Financial Services institutions to identify profitable and potentially profitable portfolios, accounts, and customer relationships and understand its enablers. Top Down Reporting from Management Ledger and Bottom Up reporting from instrument tables for different user roles is supported. Key elements of BI content include Strategic Insights around Org Unit, Product, and Customer including account and segment level profitability.
• Introduction to Admin Console: Use the Admin Console to perform System Configuration and Identity Management. It is a single point of access to manage identity functions and view administrative features such as Metering, Audit Trail Report and other miscellaneous configuration details in the Profitability and Balance Sheet Management Cloud Service (PBSMCS).

• Welcome to Oracle Cloud
  Oracle Cloud is the industry's broadest and most integrated cloud provider, with deployment options ranging from the public cloud to your data center.
• Getting Started with Profitability Analytics Cloud Service
  To get started, you must activate the Profitability Analytics Cloud Service (PACS). After activating the Cloud Service, you can onboard Application Users to use the subscribed Cloud Services.
• Introduction to Admin Console
  Use the Admin Console to perform System Configuration and Identity Management.
• System Configuration
  Administrators can monitor the usage of service units and user activities through the System Configuration.
• Allowing Domains to Receive Email Notifications
  The application sends email notifications from the following domain. To receive these notifications, you must add this domain to your Allow List: [e-mail].<region>.ocs.oraclecloud.com
• Identity Management
  Using Identity Management, administrators can manage fine-grained and coarse-grained entitlements. Coarse-grained entitlements consist of fewer functions than fine-grained entitlements. Authorizers can authorize the entitlement mappings.