Guest blog by James Wakefield, EPM Practice Lead and Carrick Mortimer, Servian Pty Ltd. 

When it comes to data integration for your Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), it's important to ensure you have: (1) Trust in the process of sourcing data. That means you need reliable and secure integration to source systems, and (2) Automation of data flows to support your EPM solution with the flexibility, so business users can maintain the automation without being a technical guru Most modern ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) solutions provide very technical solutions that allow you to automate data integration, but they tend to be very technical solutions that business users would be challenging to navigate.

OneCloud’s mission is to empower customers to Integrate enterprise systems, Automate the exchange of critical data, and Accelerate business processes that rely on accurate and timely data.  One of the common needs when sharing data between systems is to validate that the data in both systems reconcile.  Validating the data between these different systems is often an onerous task for a number of reasons.  Many of these systems have different data models whether it be the number/usage of segments such as Natural Account, Legal Entity, Customer, Product, Line of Business, or Functional Area or the level of grain within a given segment.  

We at OneCloud are incredibly excited to formally announce our new branding.  Across all of our social media, you may have noticed the hashtag #IAA. #IAA represents the core of our mission, to #Integrate enterprise applications and allow seamless data exchange, to #Automate routine tasks and return valuable time to the organization, and finally, to #Accelerate business processes and allow you to focus on what is truly important to your business.  And we seek to do all of this without requiring you to write a single line of code.

In our last post, we discussed different OneCloud deployment strategies. In this post, we will take an in-depth look at a customer that utilized the Point and Run option as the first step to their OneCloud deployment.

Businesses are demanding more data. Organizations need to know exactly how their cash reserves are being used, which regions or business units are profitable and where there are opportunities for improvement. Data, and more accurately, reliable data are critical to business success. The time-honored phrase, do more with less, is becoming increasingly poignant.

In our last post, we explored OneCloud’s ASO High-Speed Extractor and Convertor for Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud (PCMCS). In this post, we explore the advanced transformation capabilities of OneCloud and showcase how common data transformation requirements are addressed with out-of-the-box capabilities that streamline data integration and improve data quality.

In the first installment of the OneCloud Did You Know blog series, we're going to discuss OneCloud’s high-speed extraction and conversion capabilities for Oracle Profitability and Cost Management to an open and standard format that can be shared with many other applications as the following diagram depicts. 

Welcome to the OneCloud Did You Know blog series. 

In this Did You Know series, we'll be highlighting application functionality that goes beyond the standard OneCloud Commands that are required to build an integration, or in our terms, a Chain.  This series will showcase OneCloud features that are included in the core platform as well as features that may require additional licensing. We will be sure to clearly outline into which license category a feature falls. 

forum [fo·​rum] / ˈfȯr-əm / noun. a public meeting place for open discussion.

At OneCloud, we strongly believe in the value of freely sharing knowledge.  Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the OneCloud Forums to enable us, our customers and our partners to freely exchange ideas, ask questions, and share knowledge and solutions.  Our goal with the forums is to provide more opportunities for customers and partners to talk not only with us but with one another.  As experience often tells us, nobody has the last best idea. 

We firmly believe that the public collaboration that the forums provide will continue to unleash the power of OneCloud.  We are thrilled to invite you to this community and look forward to a lively discussion.

You can find the forums here: https://support.onecloud.io/support/discussions

OneCloud is pleased to announce the addition of Tony Scalese to the executive team as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Tony has nearly 20 years of experience in the Performance Management space; more than a decade of spent in professional implementation services.