# Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [FP&A Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/fp-a-financial-planning-analysis) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud is a secure, collaborative, and process driven service for defining, authoring, reviewing, and publishing financial, management, and regulatory report packages. ## Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **seamless data integration** between Finance and HR for efficient budgeting and resource allocation. (1 reviews) - Users recognize the **time-saving implementations** of Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting, enhancing efficiency in close processes. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note that **complexity issues** increase the need for IT involvement, complicating the overall usability of Oracle Cloud EPM. (1 reviews) ## Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Reviews ### 1. Overview of Oracle Cloud EPM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Have seen implementations save time and resources for close and related processes **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Typically requires more IT involvement than previous generation Oracle EPM offerings **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have seen benefits to all areas of accounting/finance ### 2. Oracle Fusion EPM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Leveraging existing data across Finance and HR to create budgets and allotments. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** All good so far - no complaints. Appreciate the functionality in the product. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating budgets for the school district. Planning postions budgeting. ### 3. Review by Kenil **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It will help businesses in generating next level of reporting tools **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It can be improved more in terms of features **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves lot of problems around report that we have currently which will help business in getting data needed for decision making in realtime ### 4. Critically Check on Performance Using Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jane N. | Communication Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Reporting on the progress of a company is something which Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is doing completely, and this is the reason why we invested some of the finances that we had with this application. Again, Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting has all manners of business performance evaluating tools. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It is never on chances when we work with Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting because analysis of the business encounter must be serious, and correct answers found. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** We never want to mess on performance when we have Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting. The tool of our choice always. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business evaluation is something which corrects the many mistakes which can be found or identified when executing the business operations. Eventually, Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is the drilling application for this work. ### 5. Appropriate Performance Evaluation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Njogu M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Working towards the attainment of a given goal demands a good performance evaluating tool, and Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is capable for the big task. Furthermore, the seriousness regarding the security system of the software guarantees us immediate attention. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Ever since we introduced Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting in our firm, tegre has been assurance in monitoring the progress of every project or conduct in a firm. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** There is confirmation that Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is working for companies, big or even the mash rooming ones. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Financial management entails business analysis, asset management, among others, and this ensures performance is well established, and that is why we support Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting. ### 6. Foster Performance Management Using Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** There is an elaborate means of understanding the dynamics of the company's performance, but Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is one of the software that helps companies out. Furthermore, Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting increases the employees productivity any time of the day. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Unfortunately, some performance evaluation procedures are ancient, which means, there is the need of adopting more new possibilities in the general market. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is a consolidated application, which is extremely supportive for all the company users. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing the performance capacity of every company is a great merit that Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting works with, and since Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is there for this work, we end up with more finances. ### 7. Great SaaS Reporting tool with complex capabilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Advanced mobile, self service and collaboration capabilities Instant visibility to the progress and status of the reporting lifecycle Efficiently bring knowledge workers in and out of the process based on their role Secure at all levels to handle sensitive content, from network to storage Content access based on role **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Sometimes the cost incurred could be bit more, as a negative side **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tight integration between several oracle projects. Really good in collaboration side and easy to onboard members when a new person join the firm ### 8. Manage and Understand your Performance with Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cosmas R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** There are so many factors which matters for a significant performance, and when Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting is available, all this factors are put across, and there is the maximization of everything. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** We have gained adequate assistance on managing the enterprise performance, and there is no place we cannot reach now since everything is well directed. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** We found the opportunity of working along with Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting in matters like asset financial management and financial analysis. All are well elaborated. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asset performance is the first role which Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting solves so well. Secondly, there is the financial analysis, to determine the worthwhile of a given project. ### 9. Developed a few reports using the tool. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** I used the tool over a year ago and it seemed like in principle a good idea. But at that time I could not pull in reports directly from Fin Reporting Studio. Instead I had to build reports on the limited tool. I imagine now the tool has gotten better, I have heard that.... **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Confusing to get the flow going. I could not get all the pieces to come together. I could build the report in the web. But when I tryed to add a PDF and a flow, it was confusing. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I hope it integrates all the reporting needs as my client wants to see it all, but I am still worried the product will not deliver. ### 10. Oracle Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob L. | Accounting Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Oracle has a very friendly user-interface. We use their Peoplesoft interface for our Financials and Reporting. It works wonderfully and makes our processes much easier **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Occasionally, we will encounter issues with the connection to the server. Since it is a cloud-based system, it is normal to have such issues. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have seen an increase in productivity and also efficiency when reporting financials ### 11. Performance Review Genius! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Being able to save and document all performance reviews! I loved the Vision Quarterly Report as it helped foresee the future and what to project which is important. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Nothing to dislike. Oracle got it right. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** Be sure to have a better outline of what needs you specifically would like to tackle. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staying organized ### 12. DBA with databases on premise **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Would definitely want to use if you are running in the cloud. I use OEM 13.3 and like except waiting on a bug fix to look at database home page. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Not using cloud version at this time. But I do like SQL MONITORING from premise version. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** performance and locking ### 13. Oracle has a great variate of cloud apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Our Reporting business finds it very flexible **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** As an IT support we need to involved more on development part **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since we have multiple entity, it is great benefit to work on a single application. ### 14. My review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It has pretty complete, functionality, even some niche charactistics I was looking for **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** A little steep learning curve, and overly complex in places. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data trend analysis - limited. ### 15. Reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Easy to use, reliable with no issues, large buttons areas to click on, also always fast with no lag **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** If you don’t get trained in detail, you could make huge mistakes **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** None **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Financial reporting ### 16. Takes time to set up but easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It's intuitive and user friendly. It ties to our hieracrchy **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It requires IT to help with discovering where the data we need is kept. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** standardizing performance across dept ### 17. excellent product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hamendra B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** usuability and end user experience.. its easy to connect with excel and better usuability **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** nope. ............................................... **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** app for work force planning which helps to have centralized plan data with single sign on access ### 18. Oracle Reporting System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** It is an easy system that I can integrate Taleo data into Oracle reporting. This helps with on boarding and new hire metrics. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** The options to choose for reporting metrics can be a little confusing. Indications for certain options can create a discrepancy into the reporting content **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding metrics and new hire data. The Oracle reporting is essential for any turnover within the organization. ### 19. use for planning & budgeting **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** stores multiple time periods of actuals, forecasts & budgets in 1 location & ability to pull data via smartview add-in directly into excel **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** runs slow and freezes quite often (particularly smartview) **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** financial management ### 20. Awesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** I really like the cloud and how it works. It's very user friendly and does alot easily. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** I don't like the lack of accessibility. The amount of data needs to be more and the length of the time needed for uploading things should be shorter. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting:** use it for data and storage. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to move forward my companies employment and keep track of people's numbers and data. I have realized that I like the cloud more and more but wish it was more available. ### 21. Oracle EPM Cloud is a great tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Easy to use. Great reports. Love the graph. **What do you dislike about Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting?** Sometimes slow depending on amount of data it needs to retrieve. **What problems is Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great report for management. ## Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Discussions - [What is Oracle Eprcs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-eprcs) - [What is the purpose of narrative reporting?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-purpose-of-narrative-reporting) - [What is included in narrative reporting?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-included-in-narrative-reporting) - [What is Oracle narrative reporting?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-narrative-reporting) - [View Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-cloud-epm-narrative-reporting/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+21%3A54%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=affb5276-7e96-4028-b86f-36eb1bb77cc5&secure%5Btoken%5D=f6b68a1a127d6348b4a3ccde8a60c4144420c4748fbb160f897e7caf23bfdd9d&format=llm_user) ## Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Features **Data Management** - Data Import - Data Consolidation - Data Validation **Monitoring** - Use - Reliability - Risk **Financial Planning** - Extended Planning - Reporting - Integration **Agentic AI - Accounting & Finance** - Autonomous Task Execution **Agentic AI - FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) ** - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Financial Insight** - Budgeting - Forecasting - Planning **Reporting Structure** - Reporting Hierarchy - Report Templates - Report Types **Analytics** - Dashboards - Performance - Forecasting **Data** - Data Analysis - Custom Reporting - Reporting Templates **Standard Analytics** - Standard KPIs - Standard Reports - Financial Statements - Drill Down **Agentic AI - Asset Performance Management** - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Status Communication** - Collaboration - Version Control - Scorecards **Custom Analytics** - Dashboards - Custom KPIs - Custom Reports - Self Service - Multiple Entities **Agentic AI - Financial Analysis** - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making ## Top Oracle Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting Alternatives - [Workiva](https://www.g2.com/products/workiva-workiva/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,128 reviews) - [SAP Analytics Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-analytics-cloud/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (747 reviews) - [IBM Maximo Application Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-maximo-application-suite/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (550 reviews)