FCCS Updates (March 2018): Supplemental Data Manager Multi-Cube Support,...
The March updates for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) are here. This blog post outlines multiple new features and considerations.The monthly update for FCCS will occur...
View ArticlePBCS and EPBCS Updates (March 2018): New Job Type, Support for Infolets &...
The March updates for Oracle's Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) are here. This blog post outlines several new features for both...
View ArticleMetadata tricks using Groovy in EPBCS
I have been very busy the past couple of months. New job, new projects, frequent travelling, and a lot of running in preparation for my next race in TWO weeks in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. I'm...
View ArticleODTUG Kscope Community Service Day Renamed to Honor Its Founder @odtug
ODTUG Community Service Day Renamed ‘Kathleen McCasland Community Service Day’. User group honors its founder and reflects on past 10 years of community service across the nation.
View ArticleAnnouncing the ODTUG Kscope18 Keynote Speaker @odtug
Dr. Heather Knight is an Assistant Professor of Robotics at Oregon State University. There, her CHARISMA research group uses methods from Entertainment to bootstrap the development of Social Robots.
View ArticleComing Out
TweetDear reader, I wanted first to apologize for not posting as often as I should do over the past few months. You might wonder what is happening and if I am hiding in the closet or something. First...
View ArticleWhy Buy FDMEE when Cloud Data Management is Free?
Why buy Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE) when Cloud Data Management (CDM) is free? As outlined in my recent white paper – FDMEE vs. Cloud Data Management– there are myriad...
View ArticleCloud Data Management (CDM) and Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise...
Why buy Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE) when Cloud Data Management (CDM) is free? As outlined in my recent white paper – FDMEE vs. Cloud Data Management– there are myriad...
View ArticleHow Financial Controllers Can Add Value @usanalytics
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,...
View ArticleODTUG March News @odtug @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs
The ODTUG 2018 March News includes the announcement of the renaming of the ODTUG Kscope18 Kathleen McCasland Community Service Day, the keynote speaker, upcoming webinars, upcoming Meetups, and ways...
View ArticleThe Value of Adding Commentary to OBIEE
As you probably already know, OBIEE does not have a commentary function built in.So, you and your team are probably using manual workarounds — taking screenshots, adding text descriptions, referencing...
View ArticleSpeed-of-Thought, JD Edwards Data-Driven Decisions @ranzal @orclEPMblogs...
In a recent trip to a hardware store, my son asked me why there are so many different types of screwdrivers – regular, Phillips, hex, etc. This led to a discussion around the fact that different jobs...
View ArticleWhat Do You Mean My User Is Invalid?
Sometimes finding the solution to an EPM problem is tricky. This is true for the hardened EPM professionals, and for those folks newer to EPM. I was recently reminded of this when trying a migration of...
View ArticleTwo Minute Tutorial: OAC Creation Error Workaround
OAC: Oracle Analytics Cloud(OAC) Service Creation fails with "PSM-LCM-01008 Unable to create service" Error (Doc ID 2353287.1)I was unable to find the GUID ID referenced in the above Doc ID — so I...
View ArticleOAC - DV .. Plus BI via Smart View
OAC - Essbase & DV .. plus BI via Smart ViewIt was a few posts ago and I only mentioned it at the very end of this prior...
View ArticleGroovy Lab – Groovy in EPM Introduction (EPBCS & Hyperion) @_Jun_Zhang_
Groovy is becoming a hot topic these days, since EPBCS integrated Groovy into Calculation Manager in June 2017. Groovy business rules allow us to design sophisticated rules solve use cases that...
View ArticlePlanning audit reports with help from Groovy - Part 2 @orclEPMblogs...
In the previous post I went through a possible solution for producing audit reports through the planning UI with the help from business rules and Groovy. I mainly covered the background to planning...
View ArticleODTUG Goes Live with Oracle’s Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service...
Oracle Development User Tools Group (ODTUG), an Oracle user group community focused on education, announced that it has adopted Oracle’s Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) to...
View Article12 OBIEE Performance Tips You Need to Know @usanalytics @orclEPMblogs...
If your rs are complaining about performance issues, you know you have probs. But, whare they? How do you solve them?As the administrator, you want to be on top these performance issues, solving them...
View ArticleKscope18, Here I Come!
As my family and I wrapped our first-ever family trip to Disney World, I received four e-mails from ODTUG. The first two that I read let me know that two of my abstracts had been declined. The second...
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