Connected Planning Starter Kit: Align Project Plans With Growth Initiatives

Business growth is fueled by projects large and small, short- and long-term—but to be successful, these projects must be connected to finance and other lines of business. A siloed approach, where projects are planned without connecting data, strategy, and cost components can cause unnecessary challenges.

Connected Planning Starter Kit: Integrated Business Planning and Execution

Managing business disruption is a top priority for finance and supply chain leaders who need to minimize the impact of sudden change on costs and service, and react quickly. Integrated business planning and execution leverages the best practices of sales and operations planning with the benefits of new technologies to help you know sooner and act faster.

Connected Planning Starter Kit: Build a Winning Workforce Plan

The COVID-19 pandemic created dramatic changes in our workforce-nearly 4 million Americans left their jobs in April 2021 alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Finance and HR leaders must work together to build a connected workforce plan. By aligning their data, systems, and strategy, they’ll gain more comprehensive workforce insights and a deeper understanding of the costs involved.

Lessons From Enterprise Planning Case Studies

Many organizations struggle to manage change because they lack planning alignment across departments, and suffer from data silos and fragmented systems. In this ebook, Oracle partners share customer success stories in connected enterprise planning, along with insights from their most successful planning implementations.

Gartner Innovation Insight for Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) 2020

What’s driving the need to combine financial and operational planning on a single technology platform? Get Gartner’s take on why enterprise planning must evolve. This analyst report discusses the benefits of a connected approach to planning, including improved business performance, cross-departmental collaboration, and ease of use.

Five Ways to Connect and Improve Planning Across Your Enterprise

The future of business has arrived sooner than expected, setting new challenges and altering business priorities. Disruption has become a constant, and plans are now made to be changed, refined, and adjusted constantly. Siloed, line of business planning may have sufficed before, but today the focus is on connected and continuous planning across the enterprise.

Analyst Research: The Factory of the Future

Industrial transformation (IX) is changing how we run our factories. Many businesses are driving competitive advantage by cost-effectively manufacturing smart and connected products that better meet the needs of consumers. But what are the key components for building a Factory of the Future? This analyst research studies several emerging technologies that are driving industrial transformation.

How to Guide: Leverage Suppliers to Accelerate Innovation and Time to Market

In a recent survey, 47% of procurement managers said they are introducing processes and technology to improve supplier collaboration. These organizations recognize that successful partnering requires a systematic approach to leveraging a single, end-to-end solution that can standardize how they qualify, source, collaborate with, and integrate suppliers.