Consolidation Applications – The Path Forward
This year I have seen an increase in clients looking at the future of their consolidation applications. They’re finding that the path forward remains murky. Oracle did, however, provide an update...
View Article2019 Leadership Program - Now Accepting Applications
Are you looking to invest in your professional development? Do you enjoy the ODTUG community and are you looking to become more involved? The ODTUG leadership program is a great way to accomplish both...
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EPRCS Updates (August 2018): Drill to Source Data in Management Reporting,...
In this blog, we'll cover the August updates for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service (EPRCS) including new features and considerations.The monthly update for EPRCS will occur on...
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ARCS Updates (August 2018): Changes to Filtering on Unmatched Transactions in...
The August updates for Oracle's Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) are here. In this blog post, we’ll outline new features in ARCS, including changes to filtering on unmatched transaction...
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FCCS Updates (August 2018): Enhancements to Close Manager, Ability to Create...
The July updates for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) are here! This blog post outlines new features, including enhancements made to Close Manager, create journals for...
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PBCS and EPBCS Updates (August 2018): Incremental Export and Import Behavior...
The August updates for Oracle's Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) have arrived! This blog post outlines several new features,...
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Two Minute Tutorial: How to Access the OAC RPD
In this two-minute tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to access the OAC RPD in two methods…Accessing it through the Admin ToolSSH into the server
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Available to download - Oracle Data Visualization Custom PLUGIN "Elbow"...
Excited to announce that a custom PLUGIN I have been working on is available to download and start using now - available onThe Oracle Analytics Library:...
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MDX Generate()
I'm writing this post because I forget stuff all the time. This is one of those things I learned a few months ago and nearly forgot already...One of the trickiest parts of dealing with MDX is shared...
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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 7, pfSense
After a small break, I’m ready to continue the homelab dashboard series! This week we’ll be looking at pfSense statistics and how we add those to our homelab dashboard. Before we dive in, as always,...
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PBCS Data Backup and Recovery Scenarios [Tutorial] @usanalytics @orclEPMblogs...
Recently, I created several types of backups and recovering methods using the applications snapshots, PBCS exports, and Essbase Data Export business rules to export and import data.The application...
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Retro Reboot #1: Set It & Forget It – Scheduling FDMEE Tasks @ranzal...
As with most nostalgic items, reboots are the next best thing. From video game consoles to television shows, they are all getting a modern facelift and a new prime-time seat on television. I have...
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Opening Ports for OAC - EM Browser Access and RPD Admin Tool Access [Two...
In this two-minute tutorial, I’ll show you how to open a port for Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) to get EM browser access as well as access to the RPD admin tool.The steps in this tutorial are necessary...
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Essbase REST API - Part 4
On to Part 4 of this series looking at the Essbase REST API, which is currently only available in OAC. Just to recap, in the first part I provided an overview of the REST API, the second part was...
View ArticleEPRCS Series: Cloning an EPRCS Instance @opal_epm @orclEPMblogs @orclEPMblogs...
Recently, I was faced with a situation where I needed to clone one EPRCS pod to another. This meant that I would effectively need to perform 2 migrations: Test to Test and Prod to Prod. Here was my end...
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Build a Homelab Dashboard: Part 8, FreeNAS
My posts seem to be getting a little further apart each week… This week, we’ll continue our dashboard series by adding in some pretty graphs for FreeNAS. Before we dive in, as always, we’ll look at...
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Three Methods for Restarting OAC
In this blog post, I’ll go through three different methods for restarting Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), including the uses cases and tutorials for each.The steps in my previous two-minute tutorial —...
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Quick Tip - Oracle Smart View disable for Outlook
Had an instance where one of the customers had installed the Oracle SmartView for accessing the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. After the installation, the Microsoft Outlook didn’t get started and...
View ArticleHow to Travel
This summer I did something that I've thought about for a while. I wrote a (Amazon) Kindle book on traveling for business. But not about the best restaurants or hotels or best ways to maximize frequent...
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