Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management
Introduction
Apply the power of Crystal Ball to your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence applications. This edition includes all the features of Crystal Ball, plus the ability to work within Oracle EPM Workspace, where you can share your Crystal Ball workbooks and analyse Hyperion Planning and Essbase data accessed through Smart View for Office.
Increasing economic volatility and uncertainty are forcing businesses to better manage risk and improve forecast accuracy. However, most business managers are struggling to quantify the risks underlying their forecasts and to mitigate the key risk factors. Oracle’s Crystal Ball improves your strategic planning by enabling you to use the tools of forecasting, simulation, and optimization for uncertainty management.
Now, with Oracle Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management (Crystal Ball), you can apply the power of Crystal Ball to your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) applications.
Using Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office you can access data from your EPM applications, including Hyperion Planning and Essbase, in Excel and directly apply Crystal Ball to model your risks and predict success. With Oracle EPM Workspace you can share your Crystal Ball workbooks and analysis across the enterprise.
Features and Benefits
A powerful set of spreadsheet-based tools, Crystal Ball software lets you forecast your business data and turn your financial and operational spreadsheet models into dynamic analytical applications.
Key Features
- Monte Carlo simulation. Quickly assign ranges of values to your inputs, then forecast outputs and their probabilities.
- Stochastic Optimisation. Automatically search for your optimal solution while still accounting for uncertainty.
- CB Predictor. Analyse historical data with time-series analysis and regression.
- Sensitivity analysis. Determine which inputs drive uncertainty and use this information to mitigate risk.
- Integration with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace. Safely share your Crystal Ball models and analysis across your enterprise.
Key Benefits
- Think in ranges and get the full picture in the face of an uncertain future
- Improve the quality and accuracy of critical financial and operational forecasts
- Identify optimal solutions (accounting for variation and constraints)
- Extend the power of Crystal Ball into your workflow in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace
- Communicate your risks. Share your findings through graphs, charts, and reports to support decisions