Oracle Cloud EPM & AI: What’s Coming Next for Finance Teams With Matt Bradley
In this episode, Matt Bradley, SVP of EPM Development at Oracle breaks down how AI is transforming enterprise planning, forecasting, profitability modeling, cash flow prediction, and the next evolution of Oracle EPM.
From Hyperion to the AI-driven EPM of today, Matt explores how Oracle’s architecture, data model, and product philosophy uniquely position enterprises for a decade of rapid transformation. You’ll hear how AI Agents, Agent Studio, predictive drivers, and contextual intelligence are being embedded directly into Oracle Cloud EPM.
Whether you’re a CFO, FP&A leader, EPM architect, or enterprise technologist navigating AI adoption, this episode gives you a front-row seat to how the future of finance is being built.
What You’ll Learn
• How Hyperion’s foundations shaped modern Oracle EPM
• Predictive profitability modeling & AI-driven cash forecasting
• Where AI Agents actually get built (OCI vs EPM vs ERP)
• How to use Oracle AI Agents Studio inside EPM workflows
• How Feature Generation and Driver-based modeling accelerate planning
• What prerequisites you need before you can “turn on AI”
• What EPM will look like 10 years from now — conversational, agentic, continuous
TIMESTAMPS
02:19 — 03:37 Hyperion Today + Profitability + Predictive AI Cash Forecasting
04:24 — 05:56 Where Enterprises Build AI Agents (OCI? ERP? EPM?)
07:30 — 11:22 Using AI Agent Studio Inside EPM (Feature Generation + Drivers)
17:23 — 18:12 What’s NEW in EPM Profitability + AI
23:10 — 25:00 Prerequisites Before You Turn On AI
25:27 — 26:34 The Next 10 Years of Oracle EPM & Finance AI