Argano | AI Ignite: EPM Edition

Complex consolidations can quickly challenge even the most experienced finance and accounting Teams, especially when organizations are managing partial ownership, changing entity structures, joint ventures, equity investments, intercompany activity, and multi-currency reporting. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation and Close helps bring structure, automation, and transparency to these advanced consolidation scenarios.

Through practical examples and lessons learned, the session will explore how consolidation methods, ownership percentages, non-controlling interest, equity pickup, eliminations, and configuration decisions work together to drive consolidated results. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how to design, validate, and troubleshoot complex consolidation models in FCC while improving close confidence, auditability, and reporting consistency.

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As organizations modernize their finance and analytics architecture, the need to connect Oracle EPM with cloud data platforms like Snowflake has become increasingly important. In this session, attendees will learn practical strategies for designing reliable, scalable, and transparent data integrations that support planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics across the enterprise.

Through real-world integration patterns and lessons learned, the session will explore how Teams can simplify data movement, improve data quality, reduce manual file-based processes, and strengthen governance between Oracle EPM and Snowflake. Participants will gain insight into key design considerations such as source-to-target mapping, metadata alignment, load automation, validation, drill-through, performance, and ownership between finance and IT Teams.

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Foreign currency translation is one of the most critical—and often misunderstood—areas of the financial consolidation process. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation and Close supports multi-currency consolidation, including translation to parent and reporting currencies, exchange rate application, currency translation adjustment, and the relationship between FX results and the broader close process.

Through practical examples and implementation lessons learned, the session will help finance, accounting, and consolidation Teams understand what drives FX outcomes in FCC, how metadata and rate configuration influence results, and where common issues typically arise. Participants will leave with a clearer framework for validating FX, explaining translation impacts, improving close confidence, and reducing avoidable rework during period-end reporting.

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Modern finance transformation depends on trusted, connected enterprise data that can move seamlessly across ERP, EPM, and analytics processes. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle Enterprise Data Management can help unify and govern master data across ERP and EPM landscapes, enabling better alignment between financial reporting, planning, consolidation, account reconciliation, and operational processes.

Through practical examples and transformation strategies, the session will explore how Teams can move beyond spreadsheet-based hierarchy maintenance and fragmented change processes toward a governed, collaborative, and auditable data management model. Participants will gain insight into how EDM supports application connectivity, hierarchy management, mappings, requests, approvals, validations, subscriptions, and downstream synchronization across Oracle and non-Oracle systems.

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Account reconciliations remain one of the most time-consuming and control-sensitive activities in the financial close, often burdened by spreadsheets, manual follow-up, inconsistent documentation, and limited visibility. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle Account Reconciliation can help organizations transform reconciliation from a reactive close task into a governed, automated, and insight-driven process.

Through practical examples and transformation strategies, the session will explore how Teams can standardize reconciliation formats, automate assignments and approvals, load balances from source systems, apply rules and thresholds, manage supporting documentation, and improve exception visibility. Participants will gain insight into how Oracle ARC supports reconciliation compliance, transaction matching, dashboards, workflow, audit readiness, and stronger accountability across the close process.

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Finance Teams are being asked to plan faster, forecast more accurately, and uncover insights earlier in the decision cycle. In this session, attendees will learn how AI and insight-driven capabilities in Oracle EPM Planning Cloud can help organizations move beyond traditional spreadsheet-based planning toward more predictive, automated, and data-informed performance management.

Through practical examples and use cases, the session will explore how planners can leverage predictive planning, automated forecasts, anomaly detection, trend analysis, and narrative insights to improve forecast accuracy and reduce time spent on manual analysis. Participants will gain insight into how AI can support driver-based planning, variance investigation, scenario evaluation, and more proactive conversations between finance and the business.

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Today’s finance organizations need reporting that goes beyond consolidated results to explain profitability, cost drivers, operational performance, and the underlying business story. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation and Close, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, and FreeForm work together as a powerful reporting trifecta that connects statutory, management, and operational perspectives.

Through practical use cases and design strategies, the session will explore how FCC supports trusted consolidated financial results, EPCM adds profitability and allocation insight, and FreeForm provides flexible modeling and reporting capabilities for unique business requirements. Participants will gain insight into how these applications can be integrated to improve reporting depth, reduce fragmented analysis, and enable more meaningful conversations between finance, operations, and leadership.

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Finance teams are expected to deliver more than numbers—they must communicate clear, actionable insights. This session explores how GenAI capabilities in Oracle EPM Narrative Reporting elevate FP&A commentary, streamline narrative creation, and strengthen the storytelling behind financial results. Attendees will see practical examples of AI‑generated insights, variance explanations, and executive‑ready narratives that help Finance teams deliver sharper insights and stronger stories with greater speed and confidence.

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Oracle EPM Planning Cloud never stands still — each release delivers smarter, faster, and more intuitive ways to plan, analyze, and act. In this session, we’ll count down our five favorite features that are reshaping what’s possible for today’s EPM teams.

Experience the agility of Flex Forms, the seamless integration of Cross Pod Smart Push and Data Maps powered by Groovy automation, and the intelligence of Insights and Predictions that bring AI directly into your planning workflows. We’ll also highlight the new Forms 2.0 experience, packed with modern design updates that make building and using forms easier and more engaging than ever.

And because we all love a showstopper, we’ll end with a “listening party” for 2026 release feature — a groundbreaking enhancement that’s poised to be another game changer for EPM Planning.
You’ll walk away with practical tips, configuration ideas, and plenty of inspiration to level up your own Oracle EPM environment.

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Every organization approaches performance management from a different starting point, whether the priority is planning, consolidation, account reconciliation, profitability, tax, reporting, data integration, or enterprise data governance. In this session, attendees will explore how Oracle EPM Cloud can meet organizations where they are today while providing a connected platform for future transformation.

Through a guided platform exploration, the session will highlight how Oracle EPM Cloud business processes and common platform capabilities can support finance modernization across close, planning, reporting, analytics, workflow, integration, security, and governance. Participants will gain a practical understanding of where to begin, how to expand over time, and how to connect multiple EPM capabilities into a scalable roadmap that aligns with business maturity, priorities, and value realization.

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