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4th December 2025

What Is Oracle EPM?

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Oracle EPM is a suite of cloud applications that helps organisations plan, budget, forecast, consolidate financials, and report with accuracy. 

It brings key finance processes into one controlled environment so teams can improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and make better decisions based on reliable data.

A Unified Approach to Financial Performance

Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management suite is designed to support the full financial cycle. Instead of relying on separate tools and spreadsheets, finance teams can manage planning, consolidation, reconciliation, and reporting in a single platform. 

This creates consistency across processes and reduces the risk of errors or conflicting information.

What is the Planning and Budgeting module?

The Planning and Budgeting module allows organisations to:

  • Build detailed driver-based plans
  • Run rolling forecasts
  • Model scenarios quickly and compare outcomes
  • Align operational and financial planning

This gives finance teams the flexibility to update assumptions as conditions change and keep leadership informed with up-to-date projections.

What is the Financial Consolidation and Close module?

Period end processes are often time-consuming and prone to manual work. Oracle’s Financial Consolidation and Close module helps by:

  • Automating consolidation
  • Managing intercompany eliminations
  • Standardising close workflows
  • Improving the transparency and auditability of results

The outcome is a faster, more reliable close with a clear audit trail.

Account Reconciliation

Account Reconciliation centralises and standardises reconciliation activity across the organisation. It provides workflows, approvals, and clear visibility over progress. This reduces risk, improves accuracy, and removes the manual effort that often slows finance teams down.

Profitability and Cost Management tools

For organisations that need deeper insight into where value is created, Oracle’s Profitability and Cost Management tools support:

  • Detailed cost allocation
  • Driver and activity-based modeling
  • Profitability analysis across products, services, and customers

These insights help leaders understand what drives performance and where to prioritize investment.

Narrative and Management Reporting

Oracle EPM also includes tools for producing structured financial and management reports. Narrative and Management Reporting makes it easier to build consistent, compliant, and audit ready reports that combine narrative context with financial data.

Tax Reporting

Tax Reporting improves visibility and control across the tax lifecycle by centralising data for tax provisioning, reporting, and compliance. This helps organisations reduce risk and maintain accuracy across all tax related activities.

Why Organisations Choose Oracle EPM

The strength of Oracle EPM lies in delivering a unified, reliable environment for financial performance. By integrating planning, consolidation, reconciliation, and reporting, organisations gain:

  • A faster and more controlled close
  • More accurate and adaptable planning
  • Trusted data across the finance function
  • Stronger insight for strategic decision making

Oracle EPM gives finance teams the tools they need to operate with clarity and confidence, helping organisations manage performance more effectively in a changing environment.

How Support Revolution Can Help

Support Revolution helps organisations get more value from Oracle EPM by delivering independent third-party Oracle support, reduced ongoing costs, and providing a more flexible  and personalized service experience. Clients can maintain and enhance their EPM estate without being tied to vendor roadmaps or high annual fees. 

With guaranteed response times, global engineers, and support that covers customisations, integrations, and legacy versions, Support Revolution ensures organisations can keep their EPM environment stable, secure, and operating at its best while freeing budget for strategic priorities.

Speak to us today about cutting Oracle EPM costs and risk with third-party support.