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: | 
