Oracle EPM Delivered.
Results Measured.

The Challenge

Colleges and universities face increasingly complex planning environments — managing workforce costs tied to HCM systems, modeling tuition revenue under enrollment uncertainty, and projecting financial aid across diverse student populations. Many institutions were managing these processes in disconnected spreadsheets with no integrated planning platform.

Our Approach

Hourglass EPM has implemented Oracle PBCS across multiple higher education clients, delivering integrated planning models tailored to the unique drivers of academic finance. Each engagement focused on connecting people, revenue, and aid planning into a single, governed environment.

The Challenge

Across many of our client engagements, finance and IT teams were spending significant time on repetitive, manual EPM administration tasks — loading data, updating mappings, provisioning users, and running nightly processes by hand. These tasks created bottlenecks, introduced errors, and pulled skilled resources away from higher-value work.

Our Approach

Hourglass EPM has helped clients across industries automate their Oracle EPM environments using Oracle Process Automation and Data Management scripting. We identify the highest-impact manual processes in each environment and replace them with reliable, scheduled automation — reducing administrative burden and improving consistency.

The Challenge

Large organizations — including government agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises — often undertake Oracle EPM implementations with significant internal complexity: competing stakeholder priorities, limited in-house EPM expertise, and implementation partners who may not always align their recommendations with the client's long-term interests. These clients needed an independent advisor who could guide design decisions and hold implementation partners accountable.

Our Approach

Hourglass EPM has served as an independent management consulting resource for large public sector and private sector clients, providing expert guidance before and during Oracle EPM implementations. We work alongside internal teams and implementation partners — not as a replacement, but as a trusted advisor who ensures the right decisions are made at every stage.

The Challenge

Organizations across energy generation, transmission, and power administration operate in highly regulated environments where data accuracy is not optional. Many of our clients came to us managing dimension hierarchies manually across Oracle EPM and multiple ERP systems — creating audit exposure, inconsistent reporting, and compliance risk with federal and cooperative reporting requirements.

Our Approach

Hourglass EPM has implemented Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM) across multiple energy sector clients, establishing governed, auditable master data environments tailored to the reporting and compliance demands of the industry. Each engagement addressed the specific data management challenges of generation, transmission, and power cooperative operations.