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…
In a recent monthly patch, the Autosave feature has been brought to web forms. It is surely not a huge update but it comes in handy for end-users when using forms. We will take a quick look at this autosave feature in this post. Introduction The autosave is self-explanatory. It allows when users…
After a long wait, the Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management (EPCM) will be officially released next month, June 2022. The new Enterprise PCM is designed on top of the Planning platform. You will be seeing a lot of common features, clusters, and cards that are currently existed in Planning or FCC solutions. The Enterprise…
Groovy business rules give us the flexibility to customize the job log messages. Not only just seeing whether the job ran successfully or failed, but it can also tell a lot more. For a quick example, I am running a dummy business rule and the job log displays the duration of the rule and…
The previous post has discussed multiple ways of cloning environments, from on-prem Hyperion to cloud EPM to EPM automate. For more information, check the following post. EPM Lab – Clone Environment The screen-based clone environment interface surely provides flexibility and convenience. However, there are some caveats. I have seen folks cloning enrolments incorrectly or…