EPM Cloud Updates – June 2018 – EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, ARCS, EPRCS & EDMCS

Posted by Jun on May 24, 2018July 28, 2018

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 Experience, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Performance Management.

A quick recap of the EPM applications.

For PBCS, Enterprise Planning Cloud (EPBCS), FCCS, PCMCS, ARCS, EPRCS and EDMCS, usually, the latest update will be installed on the first Friday of each month to test environment, and third Friday of each month to production environment. The update will be applied during the normal daily maintenance window.

For the June update, it will apply the latest updates to test environment on Friday, June 1st, 2018 and to production environment on June 15th, 2018.

In this patch, these are the major updates:

Enterprise Planning Cloud

1.New Version of Oracle Smart View for Office

Oracle Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.800 will be available by mid-June. This version includes new features such as:

Move Formatting behavior enhancement to notify you of performance impact
Improved resolution on high-definition devices, such as Microsoft Surface Pro tablets
New Health Check, where you can view information about your system, and configure Smart View options and Windows Registry settings geared toward improving performance and reducing flickering

This release also fixes a number of defects.

2.Planning Task Types Added to the Simplified Interface

You can now select additional task types when adding tasks to task lists in the Planning Simplified Interface. These task types include:

Refresh Application
Import and Export
Copy Version
Job Console
Dimension Editor

3.Execute Business Rule as A Part of the Data Management Load Process

After loading data into a Planning application, you can now use Data Management to run business rules that perform calculation, aggregation or copy data to another Plan type if business rules are registered in the target application. Business rules can be Calculation script or Groovy script.

4.Forms Listing as A Hierarchy in Navigation Flows Artifact Library

Forms listed within the artifact library in Navigation Flows are now displayed in a hierarchical manner.

5.New Smart View System Setting: Suppress Application Management Options

Some application management settings in Smart View are located near some commonly-used Smart View end user commands and may be mistakenly selected by administrators. A new system setting in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud and in Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud allows service administrators to configure the display of those application management options in Smart View, reducing the chance of an administrator selecting them in error.

The new system setting, Suppress Application Management Options in Smart View, is set to “No” by default. This means that these application management options—Update Application and Delete Application—are displayed in Smart View to administrators. Setting this option to “Yes” hides these application management commands. Anytime this setting is changed, administrators must refresh their Smart View connection to see the effect of the change.

To locate this new setting, click the Navigator, then select System Settings and Defaults. The Suppress Application Management Options in Smart View setting is on the System Settings tab under Advanced Settings.

Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

1.Power Users Can Lock and Unlock Data

Starting with this update, power user can lock and unlock data.

2.Referential Integrity for Configurable Consolidation Rules

To prevent a referential integrity problem with configurable consolidation rules from occurring in an application, the system now verifies and prevents the deletion of any metadata member that is referenced in the rules.

Profitable and Cost Management Cloud

1.Import Shared POV Members

Using Template Import or LCM Import, you now can import applications with shared members in a POV dimension.

Account Reconciliation Cloud

1.Accessing Exported Transactions File

In Transaction Matching, you can now access the exported transactions file directly from Unmatched Transactions in addition to going to Jobs History.

Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

1.Ability to Set Decimal Places for Pie Chart Percentage Data Labels

You can now define the number of decimal places displayed for percentage data labels in pie charts in a Management Reporting report.

2.Drill Content to A Cell File Attachment

If a file is attached to a cell at the data source, such as an EPM Cloud cell file attachment or Essbase Linked Reporting Object (LRO), the file can be launched from a Management Reporting report in HTML preview.

3.Disclosure Management Supports Standardized Business Reporting (SBR) Taxonomy

Standardized Business Reporting (SBR) Taxonomy is used to generate standardized reporting, and provides clear, consistent, and support for multi-lingual digital definitions.

4.Disclosure Management Supports SEC Reporting Taxonomy (SRT)

SEC supports all these based taxonomies: UGT 2016, UGT 2017, UGT 2018, IFRS 2016, IFRS 2017, and SRT 2018. All of these base taxonomies are supported in Disclosure Management. In Taxonomy Manager, you can perform these tasks: Import Taxonomy, Register a New Taxonomy, and Verify Taxonomy Properties User Flow.

5.Disclosure Management Supports Ability to Register US GAAP 2018 and SEC Reporting Taxonomy 2018 Extension

Using Taxonomy Manager, you can register US GAAP 2018 and SEC Reporting Taxonomy 2018 extension.

6.Disclosure Management Supports Ability to Edit an Extension Based Taxonomy

Using Taxonomy Manager, you have the ability to edit taxonomies such as, SEC Reporting Taxonomy 2018 and US GAAP 2018 Taxonomy. SEC Reporting Taxonomy 2018 is both base taxonomy and a reference taxonomy.

Enterprise Data Management Cloud

1.Enhanced Align Nodes in Side-By-Side Mode

When you align nodes between viewpoints in side-by-side layout, you can now automatically locate a node for one viewpoint in the other viewpoint from the following places:

Search results
Request items
Compare results
Validation results
Tree navigation links

These are the June updates for EPM Cloud. I will keep my eyes on the monthly updates and will share more ideas going forward. See you next time.