Let's understand EPM Cloud - bundle and pricing

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

This definitely makes sense for the new improved EPM cloud with lower cost.

When we checked about different EPM cloud components provided by Oracle in last blog:Check here 

It’s time to understand changes made by Oracle to EPM cloud, clarification about pricing.

Till now, we were using a single, value priced solution $125 per use per month.

E.g. clients were using either FCCS, ARCS, PBCS as per the requirement with this rate. So if a client required FCCS, ARCS and PBCS à It would cost $375 per user per month.

Oracle EPM cloud matured in these 5 years and so is licensing, security etc.

There is no more separate “Cloud Service” Naming. The new bundle and pricing model aims to provide more value and integration between business processes.

The new product names:

·       PBCS & EBCS à Planning (Note: Oracle no longer distinguishes between regular and enterprise

·       FCCS >> Financial Consolidation and Close

·       ARCS >> Account Reconciliation

·       EPRCS >> Narrative Reporting

·       PCMCS >> Profitability and Cost Management

·       TRCS >> Tax Reporting

·       EDMCS >> Enterprise Data Management

These products are not sold separately.

There are two kinds of licenses provided by Oracle for EPM cloud.

1)      Standard EPM Cloud

Standard EPM Cloud license consists of two instances à (1) Production instance and (2) Development/Test instance.

 One standard EPM cloud license costs around $250/£198 per user per month.

 A single unique user across all included business process options.

 Minimum Users = 10

 Additional POD will cost additional $250 per user per month.

 Standard Edition includes following cloud services based on busines process.

 ·       Module-based Planning

§  Capital, Financials, Projects, Workforce (2x) and Strategic Modelling (6 cubes total)2 custom cubes (1 hybrid BSO and 1 ASO cube)

 ·       Narrative Reporting

This includes the two most popular tools Narrative Reporting and Management Reporting

·       Financial Consolidation & Close

This includes Supplemental Data Management, Financial Consolidation, Close Management

·       Account Reconciliation

This includes Reconciliation Compliance 

2)      Enterprise EPM Cloud

Enterprise EPM Cloud license consists of two instances  (1) Production instance and (2) Development/Test instance.

One standard EPM cloud license costs around $500/£396 per user per month.

A single unique user across all included business process options.

Minimum Users = 25

Additional POD will NOT cost additional fees.

Standard Edition includes following cloud services based on busines process.

·       Planning

§  Module-based (same as standard)

§  Custom (6 custom cubes + 6 ASO cubes)

§  A framework similar to EPBCS (3 custom cubes, 4 ASO cubes and Workforce ASO cube)

§  Free Form

·       Narrative

§  Includes Disclosure Management

·       Financial Consolidation & Close

§  Includes all features and support for Complex and Custom Calculations

·        Account Reconciliation

      ·        Enterprise edition includes additional            modules

             §  Profitability & Cost Management

             §  Tax Reporting

             §  Enterprise Data Management (up to 5,000 hosted records)