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Contents
1 Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12

Objectives 1-2
New Features Summary: Common Technologies and User Experience 1-3
New Features Summary: Financials 1-4
User Experience 1-5
Applications Technology: Simplified User Experience for the IT Security Manager 1-7
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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for
information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not
a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing
of any features or functionality described for Oracles products remains at the sole
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Oracle Financials Cloud

New Features Preview for Rel 12
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Objectives
After completing this session, you should be able to discuss the new features of
Oracle Financials Cloud.
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Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 2

New Features Summary: Common Technologies
and User Experience
In this release of Oracle Financials Cloud, new features have been included in
the following modules or areas:
Common Technologies and User Experience

User Experience
Applications Technology
Integration
Extensibility
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New Features Summary: Financials
Financials
Advanced Collections
Assets
Expenses
Payments
Receivables
Transactional Business Intelligence
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User Experience
Financial Setup Screens

The new look-and-feel of the transaction pages that was introduced in the
earlier release has been expanded to all Financial setup pages.

Fields, buttons, and regions may have been moved in order to provide a more
effective and accessible work area on any device.
A new set of icons with simplified appearance has been introduced, allowing
you to perform actions and functions on the page.
End User Personalization of the Navigator and Springboard
You can personalize the Navigator and Springboard to show or hide the
Navigator menu items or Springboard icons for navigation. a
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User Experience
Announcements Preview
You can preview your announcements before posting them to the
Announcements panel on the home page.

Notification Actions
You can enhance your bell notifications dialog box to include custom and
system actions.
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Applications Technology: Simplified User Experience for the
IT Security Manager
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Security Console
User Account information such as

password, lock, and unlock are managed in
the Security Console.
Roles are now managed directly in the

Security Console, and are no longer
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Applications Technology: Security
Improved data security model

User account management
Administrator password management

User password management (self-service)
User account locking
Enhanced role visualization
Tabular role hierarchy view
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Applications Technology: Security
Password policies
Notification templates
Upgrade-safe management of factory-shipped roles

Bridge for Microsoft Active Directory
User password changes audit report
Integration of custom identity management solution
Password reset
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Applications Technology: Other Features
Integration
Financials Data Extract: Outbound Integration
Financials Data Extract empowers business enterprises with the capability to

extract complete or incremental financials data from the Oracle ERP Cloud to
seamlessly integrate with on-premise, legacy, or other cloud systems.
Extensibility
Large Icons
You can choose to select small or large Springboard icons.
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Advanced Collections
Collections Work Area

You can manage the work assigned to individuals more efficiently by using the
Advanced Collections Work Area.

Collections Agents can prioritize delinquent customers, promises, strategy
tasks, and activities, and review collections data that is conveniently
summarized into four new information tiles.
Delinquent Customers information tile
Promises information tile
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Assets
Assets Statutory Reports

Optimize experience for business users with new Assets statutory reports.
Expedite reconciliation of your depreciation accounting with General Ledger.

Review depreciation expense by asset account and balancing segment for
each tax year.
Stay in total control of assets by tracking asset sources. Track new asset
additions or cost adjustments by their source, including the related invoice
details for any period range.
Comply with US Inland Revenue Property Tax Sections 1245 and 1250.
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Expenses
Global Per Diem Policies

Enforcement of statutory compliance with global per diem policies
Support for complex per diem requirements, such as time-based rates, first
and last day rates, same day rates, long-term travel rates, and weekend and
holiday rates
Support for meal and accommodation deductions and per diem eligibility
criteria
Spreadsheet-based upload to create per diem rates
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Payments
Payment Approval
Maintain control over payments made to suppliers.
Submit payment process requests for management review and approval or

rejection before sending payments to suppliers.
Prioritize payments to ensure that funds are both available and used
effectively.
Approvers receive emails, as well as online payment approval process
notifications to review the payments.
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Receivables
Recurring Billing
Efficiently automate generation of recurring invoices based on negotiated
terms of contract with your customer by using the Recurring Billing feature.
Start by creating a bill plan record to define information such as billing
frequency, contract dates, customer information, payment terms, and the
items and memo lines to be billed on each invoice.
Generate an invoice from the bill plan.
Each invoice provides a consistent record of goods and services provided in
the given billing period.
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Receivables
Installment Update
Update the installments on individual invoices.
When necessary, modify the unpaid installment payment schedule for an

invoice according to customer requirements.
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Improved Payable and Receivable Reconciliation Drilldown Scalability

New tables give better drilldown performance to payables and receivables
activities.
One consolidated action link quickly displays the transactions causing the
difference.
Usability Improvements for Assets
The Assets subject areas related to depreciation and asset transactions have
been redesigned, resulting in better support for asset transactions.
Summarization of transactional data has been added to improve performance.
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Usability Improvements for General Ledger

Report authors can build report content more effectively with several usability
improvements in General Ledger.

Hidden dimensions have been un-nested for easier access.
Descriptive Flexfields:
New global descriptive flexfields have been added in the areas of Receivables,
General Ledger, Globalization and Expenses.
New Who Columns:
Auditing requirements are better supported by the addition of Who columns in
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BI Extender Improvements:
Proactively validate missing or problematic configuration issues related to Key
Flexfields, Descriptive Flexfields, and Essbase before BI Extender is executed.

This makes the configuration process more efficient.
Subject Area Search:
Perform a search and directly add the search result to the report that is being
created or modified.
Saving a Column:
New columns can be saved in the BI Catalog to be available for re-use when
building other reports where the column might be needed.
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New Print and Export Options:

Enable better formatting leading to improved readability of report data with new
report print options. The ability to format charts and reports makes report
layouts more appealing to end users.
HTML5 Graph Style:
Use web browsers that do not support Flash Player to view graphs in OTBI.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have had a preview of the new features in Oracle
Financials Cloud.
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For Additional Information
Review the Oracle Release Readiness Website.

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1 Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12

Oracle Financials Cloud

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 2

Common Technologies and User Experience

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 3

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 4

Financial Setup Screens

earlier release has been expanded to all Financial setup pages.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 5

Announcements panel on the home page.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 6

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 7

User Account information such as

Roles are now managed directly in the

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 8

Improved data security model

Administrator password management

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 9

Upgrade-safe management of factory-shipped roles

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 10

Financials Data Extract empowers business enterprises with the capability to

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 11

Collections Work Area

Advanced Collections Work Area.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 12

Assets Statutory Reports

Expedite reconciliation of your depreciation accounting with General Ledger.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 13

Global Per Diem Policies

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 14

Submit payment process requests for management review and approval or

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 15

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 16

When necessary, modify the unpaid installment payment schedule for an

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 17

Improved Payable and Receivable Reconciliation Drilldown Scalability

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 18

Usability Improvements for General Ledger

improvements in General Ledger.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 19

Flexfields, Descriptive Flexfields, and Essbase before BI Extender is executed.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 20

New Print and Export Options:

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 21

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 22

Review the Oracle Release Readiness Website.

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 23

Oracle Financials Cloud New Features Preview for Rel 12 1 - 24

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