January 11, 2018

  When Essbase Cloud got released, a new Excel add-in coming with the Essbase Cloud, the Cube Designer. We briefly discussed about the Cube Designer in the previous posts. Now, let’s dig into more details.   Basically, we are able to use Cube Designer to connect to Essbase application. It helps us to design, create and…

December 28, 2017

  Here we are folks, the start of a new year! First of all, I would like to thank you all for following this blog and providing all the valuable suggestions!   It has been a great year for EPM on-premise and cloud. The EPM products are continually getting updated. Until the end of December…

December 21, 2017

  It has been a great year for EPM cloud products. For the new coming year, I will keep focusing on the monthly updates. On top of that, I am adding the Probability and Cost Management Cloud Service (PCMCS) and Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service (EPRCS) update news to this series.   Oracle releases the…

December 18, 2017

  If you have worked on Hyperion planning, PBCS; worked on dimensions, you must have heard consolidation properties. First of all, let’s take a step back and refresh our memory. What is consolidation properties? Consolidation properties determine how children roll up into the parent members. We can assign one consolidation property to a non-dimension or…

December 7, 2017

  We have discussed the EPM automate many times. From an admin perspective, it is very useful. It enables service admins to remotely perform tasks within Oracle EPM Cloud instances and automate many repeatable tasks, such as import and export of metadata and data, refresh database, launch business rules, run data load rules, etc. But…

November 26, 2017

  Attribute dimension is a very powerful function in Hyperion Planning, Essbase and EPM Cloud, such as PBCS/EPBCS. Now let’s focus on how to create and use attributes.   First thing first, what is Attribute. Generally speaking, attributes are the descriptions of data. Attributes are used to group data through alternative means as opposed to…

November 24, 2017

  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.   For PBCS, Enterprise Planning Cloud (EPBCS) and FCCS, usually, the latest update will be…

November 5, 2017

  On October 27th, FCCS November 2017 Update got released. One of the awesome updates is we can do configurable calculations. Oracle mentioned that:   You can add your own custom calculations to the seeded default calculations for your applications. The system provides insertion points within the default consolidation process where you can include your…

October 26, 2017

  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.   For PBCS, Enterprise Planning Cloud (EPBCS) and FCCS, usually, the latest update will be…

October 19, 2017

  As we know that Oracle released Essbase Cloud Service in March 2017. Since Essbase is in Cloud, we are able to use MDX to query and manipulate the multidimensional data from cloud now.  I think it might be a good time to discuss MDX.   Let’s do a quick intro about MDX. Just in…