Smart View Lab – Drill-Through Launch (version: 11.1.2.5.810) @_Jun_Zhang_
Last month (Nov 2018), Smart View got a new patch, v.11.1.2.5.810, which includes a few new functionalities. One of the cool functions is the drill-through launch option. When connected to an EPM...
View Article2018 - ODTUG's Year in Review
As 2018 comes to a close, we're reflecting on the great year that ODTUG had.
View ArticleHappy New Year 2019!
Happy New Year!! Thank you all for following this blog and providing all the valuable feedback and suggestions! It has been a great year for EPM on-prem and cloud. EPM products are continually getting...
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Oracle Data Visualization - #Makeover Monday 2019 Week 01 NHL Attendance...
Happy New Year!And a start to #MakeoverMonday (MM) in 2019an style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the set of data to take a look at.The Data:...
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Oracle Data Visualization - #Makeover Monday 2019 Week 01 NHL Attendance...
Happy New Year!And a start to #MakeoverMonday (MM) in 2019Here is the set of data to take a look at.The Data: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/Year: 2019Week: 01Date: Dec 31Data: data.worldSource...
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Oracle Data Visualization - #Makeover Monday 2019 Week 01 NHL Attendance...
Happy New Year!And a start to #MakeoverMonday (MM) in 2019Here is the set of data to take a look at.The Data: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/Year: 2019Date: Dec 31Data: data.worldSource Article...
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Oracle Data Visualization - #Makeover Monday 2019 Week 01 NHL Attendance
Happy New Year!And a start to #MakeoverMonday (MM) in 2019Here is the set of data to take a look at.The Data: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/Year: 2019Week: 01Date: Dec 31Data: data.worldSource...
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EPM Cloud - Journals and Data Management - Part 3 @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs...
Moving on to part 3 in this series looking at Journals and Data Management. In the first part I provided an overview of Journals and went through in detail the workflow process. In the previous post I...
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FCCS Updates (January 2019): Proposed Changes to Application-level Access...
The first updates of 2019 are here for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS). Though there aren't any new features in this update, there are many new considerations for using...
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PBCS & EPBCS Tutorial: Using Functions in Smart View
I was recently trying to get the HsGetValue Function to work for a customer and wanted to be able to code either Private or Shared Connections. However, I couldn’t locate documentation specifically for...
View ArticlePlaying with ODI and Groovy – Part 1 – Getting things ready
Hi all, how are you doing? It has been a long quiet period here in the blog and the reason is always the same: too much work, projects, personal things and so on. To “force” myself in getting some time...
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Oracle PBCS text file export from ASO plan type utilizing Data Management
While recently working on a project to migrate an on-premise Hyperion Planning application to Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) I ran into a requirement to export data from the...
View ArticleSPC Lab – Sales Planning Cloud
In September 2018, Sales Planning Cloud joined the EPM family. It provides an extensive framework for planning and budgeting. SPC is similar to other EPBCS frameworks/business processes. It is using...
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Demystify the Balance Dimension in Profitability and Cost Management @ranzal...
Management Ledger models, whether Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM) or Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service (PCMCS), have been around for a few years, but I still receive...
View ArticleODTUG Bids Farewell to Mike Riley
Thank you, Mike, for your commitment to the ODTUG Board of Directors and the ODTUG Kscope Conference Committee these past 12 years. You will be missed!
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EPM Cloud - Journals and Data Management - Part 4 @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs...
On to the final instalment of the series looking at Journals and Data Management. In summary, the previous posts covered:Overview of Journals in FCCS and the workflow process.Loading Journals through...
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Moving on Up
I'd like to announce that I've made a big change in my life recently. I started working at Applied OLAP on January 1st. I will be helping to demonstrate our incredible software as well as assisting...
View ArticleGuest Post – Automatic data type conversion for different technologies in ODI
/* This is a guest post written by Eduardo Zancanella, one of our friends at DEVEPM. Enjoy and thanks Eduardo for the content!*/ Hello folks, Hope you are having a great day today. We would like to...
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Finance Leaders, Solve Your Most Pressing Problem by...
If you’re a finance leader at a large enterprise, there are a few basic goals you’re trying to achieve...Knowing your financialsKnowing your balance sheetImproving decision makingAs a finance leader,...
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PCM Micro-Costing, a Framework for Detailed Profitability and Costing @ranzal...
Oracle’s Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service (PCMCS) provides a powerful service for allocating General Ledger profits and costs. Recently, we worked with a banking industry client to...
View ArticleFCCS - Converting HFM Financial Reports to FCCS
Oracle just released a tool to migrate on-premise Financial Reporting reports for HFM to Financial Reporting reports for FCCS. The tool maps the dimensions, preserves the report formatting and layouts,...
View ArticleORACLE SQL for EPM tips and tricks S01EP1!
Hey guys how are you? I decide to start a new series called ORACLE SQL for EPM tips and tricks. The idea here is to show the most useful SQL commands for EPM, how to improve performance, tips, tricks...
View ArticleImplementing Zero-Based Budgeting: Benefits, Myths, and Goals @ranzal...
If you are in the finance world, then you probably have heard of zero-based budgeting. Investopedia defines zero-based budgeting as “a method of budgeting in which all expenses must be justified for...
View ArticleJan/19 Update – FCCS Journal Entry Bug
Are your power users unable to post journals since Friday, Jan 19th, 2019? There is a new, unpublished bug that removes all provisioning for non-admin users.“29217029 – FCCS – Power Users are unable...
View ArticlePlaying with ODI and Groovy – Part 2 – Listing all kinds of ODI objects
Today’s post is short as we will learn how to list any kind of ODI objects using ODI SDK. Although it is simple, it can be used for several different reasons in your daily activities and we will use it...
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How Financial Controllers Add Value
As the financial controller, you’re focused on managing the accounting department while ensuring transactions are collected or paid. You also must ensure financial reporting is accurately completed,...
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4 Factors That Affect the Cost of Hyperion Support Services
Let’s face it. Cost is a key factor in decision making — more often than not, it is the factor.The cost to support and administer a Hyperion environment is expensive. Hyperion support services can...
View ArticleEPRCS Series: Migrating from FR to MR
In the October 2017 release of EPM Cloud, Oracle added a new feature to EPRCS that allowed customers to directly migrate FR reports to EPRCS MR (management reporting): As full parity does not exist yet...
View ArticleAnnouncing the ODTUG Kscope19 Special Event!
Join us on Wednesday, June 26 for the annual ODTUG Kscope19 Special Event at MoPOP, Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture.MoPOP is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture. The MoPOP...
View ArticleEPM Cloud Updates – February 2019 – EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, ARCS, EPRCS & EDMCS
Oracle releases the application updates documentation on new features and fixed issues from the Applications Release Readiness site. From there, you will be able to check the update for Customer...
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How healthy is Smart View @gschwartzberg1 @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs...
Have you ever wanted to know what might conflict with your Smart View install, how about setting the timeout values without having to figure out hex codes and fiddle with the registry? While it has...
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Testing Network Throughput - Oracle PBCS!!!
Testing Network ThroughputI accidentally found this functionality thought it will be useful to share. From the document, This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud at Customer.Using My services, you can...
View ArticleImplementing Zero-Based Budgeting: The Requirements @ranzal @orclEPMblogs
A Culture Change and a Centralized SystemThe first post in this 3-post series – Implementing Zero-Based Budgeting: Benefits, Myths, and Goals– covers the benefits of zero-based budgeting. To summarize,...
View ArticleODTUG January News
Announcing ODTUG's 2019-2020 Board of Directors Officers Congratulations to the newly elected officers of the ODTUG Board of Directors! Natalie Delemar, president Tim German, vice president...
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Oracle Analytics Cloud Updates (January 2019): Snapshot Enhancements, New...
Oracle has released the latest features for the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) platform this month with release 105.10. There are new features across the platform including snapshot enhancement in...
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New features in OAC @gschwartzberg1 @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs...
The latest patch for OAC - Essbase has been released. Well it has been released for OAC - Classic (AKA Customer Managed or non-autonomous to use old terms). From the Emails I've seen at client sites,...
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Oracle’s ARCS Patch 1812 and Patch 1811 Review: Gazing into the Crystal Ball...
Peruse the Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) forums on Oracle’s Cloud Customer Connect and you’ll notice a theme: Transaction Matching. Questions, comments, and critiques have been flooding...
View ArticlePlaying with ODI and Groovy – Part 3 – Comparing ODI Scenarios from two...
Hi all! Now that we can connect to any ODI environment and list all sorts of ODI objects, its time to compare them and find its differences. Today’s example will do a simple check on ODI Scenarios...
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EPM Cloud - New REST APIs to manage and optimise application performance...
The 19.02 EPM Cloud release brings new REST API resources to set the administration mode of an application and assist with possible optimisation of an application.The following is now possible through...
View ArticleImplementing Zero Based Budgeting: Setting Up Your Environment @ranzal
The previous post – Implementing Zero-Based Budgeting: The Requirements– outlined two key components of a successful zero-based budgeting program: a culture change and a centralized system. We...
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Finance Leaders: Solve your Tribal Knowledge Problem @usanalytics
There’s been a lot written about tribal knowledge and how it can stunt your organization’s growth and progress. Most recently, Oracle published a post in their Modern Finance Leader blog about how...
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EDMCS - Node Qualifiers and Subscriptions @omarshubeilat
It's been a while since I last wrote an article, hopefully this will change in the coming months. This is going to be a quick one about a cool (must have) functionality in Enterprise Data Management...
View ArticleEPRCS Series: FR to MR – What’s Different?
#EPRCS Series: FR to MR - What’s Different? #orclepm #pbcs #epbcs #fccs #oac @oracleace
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Out-of-the-Box Features: Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service...
PCMCS Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Features: 1. Rule Balancing ReportsThe other day I was taking a finance course where the topic was the impact of Interest and how it represents the value of Time. In other...
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ARCS Updates (February 2019): View Size and Last Modified Date of Snapshot,...
The February updates for Oracle's Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) are here. In this blog post, we’ll outline new features in ARCS, including the ability to view the size and last modified...
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FCCS Updates (January 2019): Changes to Translations, Email Notifications for...
The February updates for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) have arrived. Read the blog post to see the considerations and new features coming to FCCS, including changes to...
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PBCS & EPBCS Updates (February 2019): New REST APIs for Administration and...
The February updates for Oracle's Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) are here! This blog post outlines upcoming changes as well as...
View ArticleNow Accepting Applications for the ODTUG Women in Technology Scholarship...
As part of our continuing effort to offer learning opportunities in all areas relevant to our membership, ODTUG is pleased to announce the fifth annual Women in Technology Scholarship Program.
View ArticleAnnouncing the ODTUG Kscope19 Keynote Speaker @odtug
Jason Latimer is a magician and scientist dedicated to inspiring wonder. In 2018, he joined David Copperfield and David Blaine as one of the few recipients of the highly coveted Golden Grolla Award...
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