Oracle Smart View is about to support Google Workspace. If you’ve been using Smart View with Office 365 for macOS, you’ll find the Google version has a similar look and feel, with a few differences. Having Smart View available for Google Workspace, particularly Google Sheets, will greatly benefit finance users. With the Google Workspace version…
In November of the previous year, Form 2.0 was officially integrated into EPM products, encompassing Planning, FreeForm, Consolidation and Close, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, and Tax Reporting. This blog post will primarily delve into the setup process for Form 2.0, shedding light on the newly introduced functionalities within this version. It’s…
Happy New Year! As we bid farewell to an extraordinary and rewarding year, we reflect on the multitude of exciting developments that unfolded in 2023 within the EPM family. The past year has been marked by the introduction of a host of new features that have enhanced the overall EPM platform experience. As…
Updating dimension member properties is a common practice in an EPM Planning/Financial Close system. This includes updating alias, member formulas, aggregation operator, etc. The traditional way is to load an updated dimension file to the system. However, bulk uploading dimension member names is always a tricky task. Especially in the on-premises Hyperion Planning…
Machine Learning and AI have been hot topics in recent years. I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT or have been using it. Machine learning is not just a buzzword anymore, instead, it comes to our day to day life. If you have been working with the FP&A team and using the EPM…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the foundation of Oracle’s second-generation cloud. Since 2020, new provisioned the EPM cloud applications started using the OCI platform for running the enterprise applications. OCI is engineered from the ground up to run mission-critical databases, workloads, and applications while providing end-to-end security. A lot of EPM Cloud features that…
The Smart View function builder is surely not a new topic. It exists since the on-premises Hyperion Planning came to the market decades ago, and it came to the cloud solutions in 2014. If you have used Hyperion or EPM cloud products, you might know the function builder feature from one of the following…
Starting from late 2022, Oracle kicks off migrating all the existing cloud environments in the legacy Classic commercial data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). If you were new to the Oracle EPM and the instance just got provisioned and created, you might have started using OCI directly. But if you have been…
In an ASO reporting cube, it is important to properly clear data before pushing or copying data. ASO does not work as a BSO cube which has the block concept. In a BSO cube, copying a #missing value is common. But in an ASO cube, it will do nothing when it comes to copying the…
The April 2022 patch brought the Task Manager feature to Planning. Although it exists in FCC and Tax Reporting years ago, it is surely great to see this feature embedded in Planning. If you only work with Planning (Hyperion Planning, PBCS, EPBCS) and Essbase, you might not familiar with Task Manager. The traditional way…