— Solutions by ERP: Oracle —
Add full-lifecycle Capex management to your Oracle implementation
Gain deep project investment insights, build better budgets, improve cash flow forecasting, and more.
Orcale runs your transactions.
It was never built to plan your capital investing.
Oracle Projects and EPM Planning give you strong financial control once a project is approved. Finario adds purpose-built enterprise capital planning, ROI modeling, approval workflows and a forecasting layer that Oracle does not.
Planning lives outside the system
Scenario comparison, what-if modeling and project prioritization aren’t native to Oracle Projects or EPM. They happen in Excel before a request ever reaches Oracle, disconnected from the system of record.
Budget models, not request lifecycles
EPM Planning’s Capital module models depreciation and budget impact well, but it doesn’t carry an appropriation request from business case through approval, funding and post-completion review.
No native ROI, NPV or IRR modeling
Appropriation requests capture cost, not return. ROI gets modeled off-system in spreadsheets, disconnected from the budget and actuals that Oracle is tracking.
Portfolio and project management don't talk
Oracle Projects tracks execution costs, but it lacks a native link between project accounting and portfolio prioritization, so HQ may lack a consolidated, real-time view of the full capital pipeline.
Variance analysis ends at the ledger
Budget-vs-actual tracking is strong at the project-level ledger level, but doesn’t extend to project-level performance reporting, benchmarking or post-completion reviews.
Consolidation is a spreadsheet exercise
Rolling up capital plans and actuals across entities, currencies, and Oracle environments — EBS here, Fusion Cloud there — typically means exporting to Excel, which brings all the version-control risk that entails.
Why extend Oracle with a purpose-built layer,
instead of building one yourself.
Many Oracle customers have tried to close the capital-planning gap first with custom EPM builds, APEX apps, SharePoint workflows, or an Access/BI patchwork. Here’s what mattered most to the ones who ultimately switched to a purpose-built platform.
Dimensions
IN-HOUSE / DIY APPROACH
PURPOSE-BUILT (FINARIO)
A capital planning layer,
purpose-built to sit on top of Oracle
Finario doesn’t compete with Oracle — it completes it. Connect your Oracle transaction system of record to a dedicated planning, budgeting, approval and forecasting layer built specifically for Capex, with multiple proven integration paths and minimal IT lift.
Align Capacity to Strategy
Centralize long-term portfolio planning and financial forecasting from strategy through post-completion review, while Oracle stays focused on the financial record.
Unify & Orchestrate
Automate manual steps across finance, operations, and IT, add control, and increase transparency for vital capital data across your Oracle landscape.
Scale & Resilience for FP&A
Standardize and streamline spreadsheet-heavy Capex processes across Oracle and every other system in your enterprise landscape.
No-Regrets Foundation
Oracle customers modernizing Capex with Finario
“Before Finario, Capex requests, approvals, budgeting, forecasting and reporting ran through a vast array of disparate systems across our global affiliates.”
— global manufacturer & distributor of nutrition, health, beauty and home products
Replaced a patchwork of tools and manual methods with a single connected Capex process tied to Oracle.
Standardized the request and approval workflow across entities, currencies and regions.
Consolidated budgeting, forecasting and reporting in one place, connected to Oracle actuals.
"Do you integrate with Oracle?" Yes, here's how.
Finario connects to your ERP through the API — a scoped integration project during implementation. We’ve done it in production with SAP, Oracle, and JD Edwards customers, and we’ll walk your IT team through the exact architecture before you sign anything. It’s designed to be easy, and no matter how much we try to communicate that, when it’s done, we usually hear, “That was so much easier than we expected.”