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 Marketing, Sales, and Service, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Data Cloud, Enterprise Performance Management, and Industry Solutions.

A quick recap of the EPM applications.

• Planning
• Financial Consolidation and Close
• Profitable and Cost Management
• Account Reconciliation
• Narrative Reporting
• Tax Reporting
• Enterprise Data Management

For the above EPM cloud solutions, typically, 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 January update, it will apply the latest updates to test environment on Friday, Jan 3rd, 2020 and to production environment on Jan 17th, 2020.

In this patch, these are the major updates:

EPM General

1.Essbase Functions Supported by Calculation Manager

The Calculation Manager Guide now lists the Essbase functions supported by Calculation Manager in block storage applications and links to these functions in the Essbase Technical Reference.

 

Planning

N/A

 

Financial Consolidation and Close

N/A

 

Profitable and Cost Management

N/A

 

Account Reconciliation

N/A

 

Narrative Reporting

N/A

 

Tax Reporting

1.New Data Exchange Card for Data Integrations

Data Integration is now available from the “Data Exchange” card under Applications. From the Data Integration page, you can create a data integration, or run an existing integration.

 

Enterprise Data Management

N/A

 

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