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Financial Management

Getting More Out of the ARC Oracle Platform

The Oracle® Federal Financials System is the engine behind ARC's comprehensive financial management services. This secure, cloud-based platform powers ARC's financial management and procurement services, and fully integrates human resources and travel services.

Solutions

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform provides tailored and scalable solutions that meet your agency's financial management needs.

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AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS:

  • Accounts payable (AP)
  • Accounts receivable (AR)
  • Budget execution
  • Federal reports
  • Fixed assets
  • General ledger
  • Oracle Advanced Collections
  • Project costs/billing
  • Purchasing
  • Subledger accounting

Your agency retains flexibility in program configuration in the ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform; however, some standard elements are maintained, such as:

  • conforming to one accounting calendar,
  • a single list of U.S. Standard General Ledger codes, and
  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Object Classes.

Systems

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform is connected to 20+ systems, comprised of third-party externally hosted systems and internally hosted systems in ARC. Third-party hosted external systems are government-wide and proprietary, meaning they are owned by a federal agency or commercial vendor.

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GOVERNMENT-WIDE
SYSTEMS:
  • Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP)
  • Classification Transactions and Accountability (CTA)
  • Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act Broker
  • Do Not Pay
  • e-Payroll (All OPM approved payroll providers)
  • Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation (FPDS-NG)
  • G-Invoicing
  • Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol (GTAS)
  • Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC)
  • International Treasury Services (ITS.gov)
  • Invoice Processing Platform (IPP)
  • Payment Automation Manager (PAM)
  • System for Award Management (SAM)
  • Secure Payment System (SPS)
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PROPRIETARY
SYSTEMS:
  • CitiManager: Citibank purchase card system
  • ConcurGov: SAP travel system
  • Grants Management Module (GMM): HHS grant system
  • InvestOne: BFS investment application
  • oneARC: Salesforce GovCloud platform
  • OneStream XF: OneStream reporting application
  • Payment Management System (PMS): HHS grant system
  • US Bank: purchase card system
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ARC HOSTED
SYSTEMS:
  • PRISM: acquisition management
  • MoveLINQ: relocation management
  • WebTA: payroll management

Customization

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform features many custom-built Oracle modules. These ARC-developed applications provide specialized service unique for only ARC customers.

ARC IPAC Streamlines processing of Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) collections from federal trading partners
ARC Payroll Integrates payroll data with the four OPM-approved federal payroll providers
ARC Predict Produces projection reports by combining payroll actuals data with various user provided projection parameters
ARC DATA Act Produces two of the required files for Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) reporting
ARC TIER Creates Treasury Information Executive Repository (TIER) report files
ARC InvestOne Provides investment accounting and reporting for customers who invest in Government Account Series securities
Foreign Currency Reporting Produces reports in US Dollar equivalent foreign currency holdings and transactions at both the Treasury Account Symbol and US Dollar levels

Microservices

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform uses modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) to create microservices. ARC Microservices are strategically built from “clusters” of integrated services to provide greater benefit for ARC customers.

REAL-TIME INTEGRATION SERVICES:

  • oneARC accounting flexfield (flexible data field)
  • System for Award Management (SAM) suppliers

REAL-TIME INTEGRATION AND FUNDS CHECKING SERVICES:

  • Grants and awards
  • PRISM purchase orders (PO)
  • PRISM requisition
  • Travel authorizations
  • Travel vouchers

Data

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform imports data for 20+ transaction types using an application programming interface (API). APIs provide an automated method to create or update data in the platform and improves accuracy and efficiency, as compared to manual entry.

  • AP invoice
  • AP supplier/supplier site
  • AR adjustments
  • AR advance liquidating
  • AR customer
  • AR invoice
  • AR misc. receipt
  • AR receipts
  • ASAP account
  • Budget
  • Fixed assets
  • General ledger
  • IPP invoice
  • OneStream
  • Project agreement/budget
  • Project invoice/event
  • Project task/ agreement/budget
  • Purchase orders
  • Purchase order receipt/return

Reporting

ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform provides sophisticated reporting solutions with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI) and OneStream XF. ARC customers can dive deeper into financial data for better visibility and insights and conquer reporting complexity that often accompanies statement reporting.

OBI:

OBI is a web-accessible reporting tool that uses common data mining capabilities, such as drilling up/down and queries, to produce real-time data views and analytics. It generates reports using data from Oracle, PRISM, and ARC-developed Oracle modules.

OneStream XF:

OneStream XF is a cloud-based financial consolidation and reporting solution that streamlines preparation of agency financial statements, notes, and reconciliations. ARC customers can:

  • view draft statements,
  • review reports,
  • drill down on transactions to lower levels, and
  • leverage many user roles.

Security

Knowing that ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform is built with Oracle's security-first design principles, your agency can be confident in the security practices and policies used to safeguard your data. This, combined with ARC's passion to provide positive customer experiences for its users, strikes the right balance between security and convenience.

ARC customers can use their USAccess PIV (or Personal Identity Verification) cards, Login.gov, or ID.ME to provide the most secure and efficient access. ARC's Integrated Oracle Federal Financials Platform is supported by Oracle Access Manager (OAM) software that offers a multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocol with single sign on (SSO) capabilities.

Modern protective measures are also used to secure data against unapproved access and to preserve data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. ARC uses common security protocols, such as Secure File Transfer Protocol (S-FTP) and Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) for getting data files from and to feeder and legacy systems.

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