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How AML RightSource Evolved Their Excel Staffing Model Using Oracle EPM Cloud

October 5th | 1:00 PM CDT | Register Now

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Essbase 21c Conversion: Don't Be Afraid This Won't Hurt a Bit - From Essbase Studio to Essbase HOLY COW in Minutes

October 12th | 1:00 PM CDT | Register Now

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The EPM Cloud Data Highway: Transporting Data Between and Within Cubes and Applications
October 19th | 1:00 PM CDT | Register Now

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I Didn’t Know I Could Do That with Narrative Reporting
October 26th | 1:00 PM CDT | Register Now

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View our library of resource materials assembled for the Best of Kscope23 Webinar Series

Featuring:
Terrance Walker – Senior Director, Consolidations, Argano 4 Oracle

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Itron was one of the early ARC adopters and leveraged this implementation's success to perfectly position their financial reporting organization to transform all on-premises applications to Oracle's EPM Cloud platform (HFM, Planning, Essbase, DRM). In this session, Sam Snow will lead a discussion into the raging success that was their EPM Cloud Transformation and how others can share in Itron's success in moving to the Oracle EPM Cloud.

Featuring:
Wayne Van Sluys – Senior Lead Consultant, Argano 4 Oracle

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You don’t need to have advanced geospatial analytics or cartography training to create custom map layers for use in Oracle Analytics. Join us for this informative session to explore the use of Oracle Analytics and Oracle Spatial Studio. We’ll discuss and demo how to leverage Spatial Studio's no-code interface to create custom map layers that can be used in Oracle Analytics. The session will showcase the ability to work with the same data between Oracle Analytics and Spatial Studio without needing to export to files. We will demonstrate new features added to both tools in the past year that help display location-based data.

Featuring:

Terrance Walker – Senior Director, Consolidations, Argano 4 Oracle

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Far too often, implementations skyrocket through project phases up to the data validation phase; then, projects unfortunately crash and burn. In this session, we will cover leading practices in successfully navigating through data validation roadblocks, offering key success factors to moving the data validation process forward with competing priorities & reduced resource availability.

Featuring:
John Harding – Senior Manager, Consolidations, Argano 4 Oracle

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Join us for an informative session where you'll get all the details of TimkenSteel’s transition from HFM to FCC, highlighting the implementation and redesign of their metadata, greater transparency for intercompany reporting, time savings for the financial reporting team, and greater visibility into the close process by the executive team. From ideation to go-live, this session will cover the successfully journey to FCC and tangible benefits to the organization.

Featuring:

Josie Manzano-Stettler – Senior Director, Planning, Argano 4 Oracle

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With the pace of monthly EPM Cloud updates dropping into the pods, are you having trouble keeping up with latest features? Are you short on time with trying to learn the new features so you can decide if they are right for your application? I’ll share five of our favorite recent(ish) enhancements that you can use right away to enrich your current Planning Cloud environment and take the user experience to the next level! Many of these you may have already heard about, but have you had the time to really work through them and understand the new capabilities? We’ve already done the homework, taken out the guess work, and tested many of these through multiple implementations. We are excited to share our use cases and implementation tips on the following:

• Groovy and Smart Pushes

• Flex Forms

• Auto-Predict

• Cell-level security

• Phased Approvals

Featuring:
Glen Lambert – Manager, Planning, Argano 4 Oracle

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What’s the difference between a well-designed and a poorly-designed Essbase database? It can mean the difference between getting timely, insightful responses to your queries and getting outdated answers that leave your organization falling further and further behind. Of course, database planning and optimization aren’t easy — if they were, everyone would be doing it! However, the design and optimization of an Essbase database are key to achieving a well-tuned system that enables you to analyze business information efficiently.

Join this session to explore what to consider when designing or redesigning an Essbase database, hear tips/tricks, and discover the best practices of today. You’ll even learn some old but still exceptionally valid design rules!

Featuring:
Wayne Bates – Senior Consultant, Analytics, Argano 4 Oracle

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Learn how we took an Excel staffing model to the next level, driving cost of sales within Oracle Enterprise Planning. Argano configured both Workforce Planning and a strategic staffing model. Attend this session and learn:

• The business value of AML's staffing model

• Decision factors for choosing a staffing model versus workforce planning (We implemented both applications)

• How revenue drivers were transformed into headcount in the staffing model

Featuring:

Ronnie Tafoya – Director, Planning, Argano 4 Oracle

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Getting over the fear of change is hard. I have been there. Even good change can send us through the five stages of grief. I, for one, never thought I would be able to move on without my dear love EAS. But even though we spent many wonderful year together I was able to move on. 

During this session, we will laugh, love, and yes, maybe even cry, but most importantly we will learn. We will learn how to take any application and move it successfully to 21c. We will learn how to import Essbase Studio files so you can actually see under the covers and see what the rules are actually doing. We will see how you can consolidate the hundreds of rules that Studio had been using into only a couple, which can give you more control and better visibility. So come, bring your questions, bring your doubts, let us together take our journey to the wonderful new world of Essbase 21c.

Featuring:
Ronnie Tafoya – Director, Planning, Argano 4 Oracle

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In today's world of Connected Planning, transporting data between cubes and applications is critical. On time delivery is critical. In this session, we'll discuss all of the different ways to share data within and across instances and business processes. We'll review the pros/cons for data maps, Groovy, business rules, Data Management, and more, to ensure the best future performance.

Featuring:
Josie Manzano-Stettler – Senior Director, Planning, Argano 4 Oracle

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Do you remember all those reasons why you opted out of using Financial Reports and instead used Excel with Smart View for all of your EPM reporting needs? Was it because you had limited choices with colors? Couldn’t do butterfly reports? Or, you couldn’t add notes against rows of data for variance explanations? Or could it be you just prefer sending out report books where all of the reports were contained within a single Excel workbook, with a table of contents, and on separate tabs? If you are using EPM Cloud and still using Excel to support all of your reporting needs, you are seriously missing out on a HUGE opportunity to streamline your R2R (Record to Report) cycles. 

Have you checked out what’s happening with EPM Cloud Reports and Narrative Reporting lately? If you have, you will know that all of the items I mentioned in the beginning are no longer limitations and are now out-of-the-box capabilities. These products have gone through massive feature updates in just the last two years for providing a framework with the flexibility to achieve the desired aesthetics, improving creation, maintenance, and administration of report packages, and achieving feature parity with the legacy Financial Reports product. 

Let me take this hour to catch you up with these game-changing new features in Reports and Narrative Reporting that dropped over the past two years, and led companies to invest in transforming their R2R processes to replace their manual Excel reports and report packages, and thus improve reporting cycle times.

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