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Another Thanksgiving Email
Here is another email we got Wednesday from a Dodeca Excel Add-In for Essbase customer. This customer has a lot of VBA macros running some automation with Essbase and asked for some assistance. We...
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Managing substitution variables using EPM Automate and REST
I was recently asked if it is possible to use the REST API in EPM cloud to manage substitution variables, at the time there was no documentation advising that it was possible but the clue was that it...
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Oracle PBCS Access Logs!!
ACCESS LOGS The much awaited access logs is released in the latest patch update https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/saasreadiness/epm?readinessRID=1385194682102– Dec 2016You can now download a daily access...
View ArticleUsing Excel AutoCorrect to help type special characters
A client of ours has a member name with a superscript two in it and users re used to typing it in quickly themselves, using the standard Windows Unicode keyboard shortcut, except the Windows shortcut...
View ArticleCreating Windows symlinks for Java installation
This is a note about configuring Java on Windows that is mostly for reference later. Usually when I set Java up on a Windows machine, one of the first things I need to do manually is make sure that...
View ArticleUpcoming ODTUG Webinars
Below is the list of upcoming webinars. If there is a topic you would like covered that is not on our current list, or if you would like to present a webinar, please email alicia@odtug.com. Did you...
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Queue 2017 Success
Since 2008, the U.S. economic position has somewhat stabilized. Many companies trimmed costs in the years following the financial crisis, but still seek solutions for producing organic growth. We are...
View ArticlePromote #KscopeGivesBack on Giving Tuesday
The ODTUG Twitter profile will be posting a number of tweets promoting Community Service Day throughout the day today, 11/29/16. We'd love to see as many posts and retweets as possible promoting the...
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ODTUG + NTxHUG @ Topgolf Tomorrow!
It’s time for a meet-up! Tomorrow, December 1, 2016, join the ODTUG North Texas EPM/BI Meet-Up group as we co-host an event with the North Texas Hyperion User Group at Topgolf in The Colony. We’ll...
View ArticleAndy Colvin: Putting 12.2 to the Test
The new Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) recently became available in the Oracle Cloud, but one ODTUG member had a chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at it months ago during extensive testing....
View ArticleOracle PBCS December 2016 release updates
Here is a quick update on Oracle PBCS December 2016 proposed updates. More details can be found on Oracle’s release control documentNew REST API’sYou can now use REST APIs to get and set substitution...
View ArticleFCCS Update - Dec 16
In my blog post A Glimpse into FCCS I talked about haw alternate rollups are not allowed in the Entity dimension because of how Oracle is doing the elimination logic. Well, one of the big improvements...
View ArticleOracle Profitability & Cost Management Cloud is now Available!
Author: Melanie Mathews, Performance ArchitectsYou may have missed the notice Oracle released this week… Oracle Profitability & Cost Management Cloud (PCMCS) is now generally available! This is...
View ArticleDodeca Technique: Essbase View with Cascaded Transaction Details Tabs
A support request came in the other week regarding some help on how to setup a particular report. The user wanted to create a view where the first tab would be a normal “bread and butter” Dodeca view...
View ArticleThe very first (and most definitely not the last) Boston EPM/BI meetup
Live in (or near) Boston? Use (or develop) EPM/BI? Where should you be on 15 December 2016?At the eponymously named Boston Area EPM/BI Community Meetup, of course. I am happy to relate that the...
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Transaction Matching is Here! Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Transaction Matching is the latest addition to Oracle’s comprehensive Account Reconciliation Cloud Service and the perfect complement to the existing Reconciliation Compliance feature set.With...
View ArticleDynamic Calendar with Comments in Dodeca
I keep telling myself that I’m going to do more blog posts that are short and sweet, instead of these epic 6,000 word monsters, but I’m just having too much fun. Today’s article is going to be a little...
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Creating Intercompany Matching Reports via Script
One of the features that has been in HFM since almost day 1 is intercompany matching reports. HFM's predecessor, Hyperion Enterprise (which was originally called Hyperion) had intercompany matching...
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Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS): Twelve Month Farewell...
Author: Chuck Persky, Performance ArchitectsNot quite the fanfare of the final episode of Seinfeld… and not the emotional impact of the Derek Jeter farewell tour (which as a Sox fan, seemed to last for...
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EPBCS Tricks Part 3: Excluding Members in a Form
TweetWith PBCS and EPBCS you have the possibility to exclude certain members or hierarchies from a form. For example, let’s say you want to have a form with all Descendants of “Gross Profit” but you...
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