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Latest Release of Oracle Integrated Operational Planning Brings Integration with Oracle BI

In response to today's volatile economic environment, the latest release of Oracle Integrated Operational Planning (IOP) integrates financial and operational planning with business intelligence to drive timely, fact-based decision-making across manufacturing, sales, and marketing functions.

"Oracle Integrated Operational Planning Release 4 helps executives and managers respond proactively to myriad challenges, including rapidly shifting demand patterns, highly volatile material and energy costs, and unforgiving capital markets," says Hari Sankar, Vice President of Development.

To achieve this, Oracle IOP Release 4 provides an integrated approach to high-value planning processes typically solved with offline spreadsheets today, including integrated revenue and profit planning, cost of goods sold (COGS) modeling, product allocation, key materials and capacity modeling, and SKU rationalization.

Beyond Spreadsheets: Leveraging the Power of Oracle BI
Oracle IOP Release 4 now natively supports Oracle Essbase as a recognized data source. As a result, Oracle IOP can be incorporated as an integral component of financial planning alongside Oracle Hyperion Planning, providing greater depth and detail in margin and revenue modeling.

In addition, integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE) means users can develop interactive dashboards, ad-hoc queries, and reports—all within OBIEE but using IOP as a data source.

Also, the latest release supports deployment on the Oracle Application Server 10g platform. And integration with Oracle Identity Manager 10g provides centralized user authentication and single-sign-on capabilities.

UI Enhancements Drive Pervasive Adoption
To drive what has been called "pervasive BI"—widespread adoption of business intelligence into daily work processes—Oracle IOP Release 4 also includes user interface enhancements that give users greater control even as it simplifies key tasks.

For example, end users can personalize the initial layout per sheet and per analysis type within the IOP Excel workbooks. It has also become much simpler to create and maintain measures within the model, thanks both to a new "copy-from" feature and more expressability in rolling up and rolling down along each dimension in the model.

In addition, users have enhanced ability to create and maintain table-driven row sources in the data designer section. And the introduction of sample reports provides templates for the rapid development and easy maintenance of Excel-based reports within the system.

In addition, a new script editor facilitates creation and maintenance of system scripts.

Learn more about Oracle Integrated Operational Planning Release 4.

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